How do I get a 30 second or less sound file to insert as a sound effect—NOT a music file?

jckmcgrawjckmcgraw Member Posts: 647
edited April 2012 in Art, Graphics, Music and Sound
Hello Everybody,

I have taken some simple effects from GarageBand, and have exported them to iTunes, and then put them on my desktop. They are all less than 30 sec. each.

The problem is that when I drag them into GameSalad (the sound section), it registers them as music, not a sound effect. The reason I need them to be a sound effect is so that I can continue to have background music playing throughout all of the effects.

Is my problem the way I exported them from GarageBand? Is there an option that GameSalad will ask which one you want?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Jack McGraw

Best Answer

  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasPosts: 2,870
    Accepted Answer
    You need to either get an audio converter program, and convert your sound effects to .ogg which is the native GameSalad format for sound effects, or change the export settings in GarageBand to .mp3, and then when importing, GameSalad will ask you if you want to import it as a music file, or a sound file, and then you would choose sound for sound effects.

    GameSalad uses .m4a as the default music format, and that is what you are more than likely exporting out of GarageBand with. When you do that, GameSalad wont ask you if you want to import as sound or music, it will automatically see that as a music file since that is the default music format for GameSalad.

Answers

  • jckmcgrawjckmcgraw Member Posts: 647
    @SlickZero

    Thank you so much!!

    Jack McGraw
  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    My pleasure!
  • kkchongkkchong Member Posts: 60
    @jackmcgraw, hi could you or anyone please pass me a couple of the sound effects you have for me to test out? tks kk
  • jonmulcahyjonmulcahy Member, Sous Chef Posts: 10,408
    You can download pretty easily from the web, or make them using GarageBand for free
  • jckmcgrawjckmcgraw Member Posts: 647
    @kkchong

    You've done this a couple of times now, but my username is @jckmcgraw even though my name is Jack McGraw. :P

    I don't receive a notification when you say @jackmcgraw
  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    Huh?
  • jckmcgrawjckmcgraw Member Posts: 647
    @slickzero

    Sorry, that wasn't directed towards you. You showed me the solution a while ago (thanks again :D )

    This discussion can be closed now.

    Regards,
    Jack McGraw
  • kkchongkkchong Member Posts: 60
    @jonmulcahy tks buddy you are really wonderful. kk
  • SlickZeroSlickZero Houston, TexasMember, Sous Chef Posts: 2,870
    @jckmcgraw - Oh no, there was a post about some Diablo 3 stuff, or gold farming for Diablo 3 or something to that effect, with absolutely horrid grammar, and I was responding to that post, but it has been removed. :)
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