HI - Can I take a Garage Band project (from a friends computer) copy and import it into Sonar in order to work on it there? If so, how does one go about that?
 
Thanks - CS

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HI - Can I take a Garage Band project (from a friends computer) copy and import it into Sonar in order to work on it there? If so, how does one go about that?
 
Thanks - CS

I'll assume this is a legitimate question and not a joke and say that Sonar works with Sonar projects, wavs and midi. If you can export midi from GarageBand then Sonar can import it and route it to midi driven devices that live in Sonar. You obviously can export audio from GarageBand and Sonar can import and play that (probably not in AIFF format though!). Something like Dropbox can be used to transfer midi and wavs over the internet, or a memory stick can be used if you are in the same part of the world as the guy with the mac.
The actual GarageBand format will mean nothing to Sonar or anything else living on a PC).

Grum.

If Garage Band can export .OMF files, SONAR can read those. Otherwise it's track by track export/import of audio files. OMF doesn't support MIDI, so those would have to be exported/imported as standard MIDI file anyway. And If the project is more than raw tracks, there will be quite a bit of manual project configuration to be done in any case as what you get with OMF is pretty minimal - mostly just audio files with sync and any clip boundary edits and fades that weren't rendered permanent, I believe. Track parameters, I/O, send/bus routing, mixing, plugins and presets all need to be replicated independently.

GarageBand does not export midi tracks. There is a mac script app called GB2MIDI that will supposedly extract the midi track that GarageBand embeds in its rendered instument aif files. GarageBand project files can also be loaded in to newer versions of Logic and it will allow you to export the midi tracks.
 

Sonar can read an AIFF file. 

I worked with a drummer who had Garage band but the other way around.  He was the sideman.  I had the full project all he did was supply me with 5 audio tracks, no problem. I sent him a stereo MP3 of the bed tracks as an Email attachment. When he was done he burned his 5 tracks as to audio CD and I picked it up from him as I wanted the full wave files. I ended up with  5 stereo tracks but that was easy to fix.  
Anyhow as long as the project is audio it works with any DAW. There's lots of ways to move audio around. Best if you both stick to the same format like 44.1 or 48. ( bit depth doesn't matter)  
So it depends on who will be doing the final mixdown really.
All that is needed by the "sideman" is a stereo file of the song to play along with. You friend just exports a rough mix and you add the guitar parts and send those back to him for him to import back to his DAW. 
Best to use complete tracks that are not all chopped up in time. 
 
Make sure to clearly label your tracks BEFORE you record them. Sonar saves those wave files in the audio file where you can copy them to a USB stick but it will label them Track 5 if you don't change the name FIRST. 
If you Name it:  Tele DI or Les Paul- Marshall,  it will make it easier to sort out later. 
 
There is a possibility of clock drift but for 3 minutes it will not matter. 

GarageBand actually imbeds the midi file of a vsti instument it uses in the aif file it exports. You need the app to extract the midi file that created it. That is what GB2MIDI does.