My computer illiterate singer has a Mac and  uses Garageband, so i am looking for a way to send/receive projects to him using Garageband, so everything is 'turn-key' at his end. 
 
If i had Garageband i could copy what i need from my Sonar project into Garageband to make a turn key reference project for him, ready for him to hit record.  It would also make it easier for me to import his latest work and hear his projects. 
 
So rather than buying a Mac , is there another way to get Garageband working on my PC, like using some kind of virtual Mac OS on the lines of Windows Virtual XP?  I don't mind if it's clunky since all i would need to do is load in/out a few wave files and set a mix.
 

You could Google Hackintosh but those are difficult unstable systems. Easiest way is both download Reaper for free and use that

I have not tried this, but you might want to:
 
https://www.appforpcshub.com/garageband-for-pc-windows-mac/
 

I seem to be unable to post the links, but there may be a way to use GarageBand on a Windows machine by using an Android emulator. Whether this version will create sharable files is another question.
 
Google: Garageband APK, "GarageBand for PC" 

A quick search found this, no idea whether it's legit, can't vouch for it etc etc;
 
http://garageband-for-pc.com/

Does the singer really need a GarageBand project to work from? People work with dissimilar DAWs all the time, by exchanging universal wave or MP3 files. If the object is to just have the singer lay down vocal tracks, you could just send him a stereo mix of the band, which even a computer novice would have no problem dragging into GB. He'd then record his tracks and export them, which admittedly might require some instruction, but even Mac users have been known to master the arcane "Save As" incantation.

I would not trust anything that say's "it's Garage Band for windows " ... but hey that's just me
 
In any event , I love GB and I can tell you that very few "GB users only " know how to get the most out of it ...
A lot of GB users think that they have to export full mix's and they do not know that in GB you can have a 20 + track projects , even twice that and have each track as a separate render of the track to use in another DAW ...
 
 
I'm one version number back in both Logic and Garage Band so I'm not familiar w the newest version of GB ...
In the version of GB that I have it is very easy to have 32 bit files of each individual track to use in a different DAW .
GB has a feature called track lock . When you lock the individual tracks of a song / mix you have basically frozen the tracks ....w effects ...
once you hit play in GB , GB go's through a little song and dance and renders your locked tracks to individual audio files ...the beach ball spins for a while and then your rendered tracks are stored in a folder ...
 
Now I'm not on my Mac ...but IIRC the rendered audio is named in numbers ..not as per the track names...
I have done this hundreds of times ...I have taken the files and put them on a thumb drive and brought them over to my PC to work on them in SONAR ....
IMHO the important thing is to have good habits and keep a tidy file management structure ...
good habits means communication of all important info ...its important to have the songs key , tempo and an idea of the songs structure ....
If I take my individual frozen track files from GB and have the correct info to tempo match and create a SONAR project ...they will import into SONAR perfectly w out a glitch ...
once in SONAR I will have to deal w file management and re naming and deleting all the unnecessary GB orphans once my SONAR project has been organized ....
 
The opposite side of the coin is true also ...you can take a SONAR project of 1 , 10 ...20 ...or 50+ individual tracks
 that were created in SONAR and import them one at a time into GB ....if you have the right tempo info every thing will line up ...
Now some people may ask well why do that ? it's only GB right ?
Well I don't know about you but my GB has some bad A$$ed 3 rd party $hit in it + it's real simple to work in GB ...
If I get tired of working in GB , all I have to do is open the same GB project in Logic and take it to the next level ...
by using better plugs and instruments ....that is one nice thing about GB ..if you have GB you can open up the GB projects in Logic ....in Logic you an finalize things to all audio and then export your whole mix as individual tracks  an OMF file ...
SONAR happens to open up OMF file's pretty good
 
to the OP , maybe you can get your collab mate / singer to bump up his GB DAW skills ...that may help all across the board ....
anyway sorry about the ramble
 
Kenny
 
PS , IIRC , the only thing that GB does  not do is export midi ...it can import , but not export midi ...
so if you guys are working w a lot of midi , it may be worth his while to pick up Logic or even Reaper to have that ability....
just an after thought ...

Thanks all.  I'll check out the links.  Yes, i'm dealing a with a stubborn neophyte who thinks technology is the devil.
If i can make it easy as pie, i may be able to get him started and he will see how easy a simple session with GB (or any DAW) can be. 

The suggestion of using Reaper (for the time being) is probably your best solution.
Inexpensive, flexible, and projects would be completely portable between the two locations

One thing to watch with Garageband is the only sampling rate it supports is 44.1KHz.
 
It's interface also has ways of doing things that aren't exactly intuitive if you're used to a "full DAW". Which is one reason I've never tried using it. I only have it installed because Logic Pro can use some of the stuff that comes with it.
 
Incidentally, if you've an iPad garageband for iOS is a free download and works pretty much as the OS X version does.