Hi folks, only had Aeros a couple of weeks (longtime Beatbuddy user). I’ve recorded a bass loop, to teach my brother-in-law Black Magic Woman - he’s a beginner. But I can’t get it onto my MacBook so I can drop it into GarageBand and make him a practice track. The Aeros won’t recognise my SD card at all, the icon is greyed out. And, with the usb connection, nothing shows show up on my desktop. Any suggestions?
Aeros does not yet have a functioning import/export ability. I understand there is a workaround, however I have not tried it. For expediency, if you have an interface, I would hook up the Aeros outputs to your interface inputs and transfer your track in realtime.
If you save the song to an SD Card, you can then copy the tracks from an sd card reader to your Mac. Each song has a folder with files for each track and part.
Aeros currently adds a small number of extra frames (forget how many) at the end of the loop which you’ll want to edit out in you DAW if you want it to loop seamlessly. 
Thanks - so the usb doesn’t do anything, but will do in the future?!!
I did manage to get the sd card to work eventually.
And I did notice the little bit extra as it drifted out from the drum loop I’d loaded from Beatbuddy. I wonder if that’s a crossfade they add to make the loops sound seamless?
Cheers for the help guys
I believe that is the logic for a seemless crossfade.
Hey there,
Yes, there are an extra 360 samples added at the end of every recorded file that allow the Aeros to transition smoothly.
You can remove the 360 samples manually in some DAWs, not all have a sample time-base option. We are building an export feature soon, it is meant to deal with this by cutting the 360 samples from a copy of the file if you choose.
Thank you for your question!
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Can’t wait! Well I can…but…
Sorry for the thread resurrect, but I’m thinking of buying an Aeros and I’d really like to import its loop tracks and parts to Garageband on my Mac so I can make a finished mix. Are these extra samples still present and is there a way to remove them in Garageband? Or has an export feature been added? Thank you.
I use them all the time to make demos, just save your loop to the memory card, put your card in your computer and physically drag and drop the loop file straight into a Garageband track (make sure the BPM in GarageBand matches what you had on your Aeros). The only tweak required is Aeros leaves a slight tail beyond the bar end (so the repeat sounds smoother). You need to zoom in & trim the loop down to the actual bar length, otherwise it drifts further and further out of time as you repeat it.
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Awesome, thank you! That’s easy enough. So the Aeros makes separate wav files for each loop track and song part? And I could rebuild it in Garageband after placing and trimming each part properly? Thanks again.
Yes, the naming is a bit impenetrable at first. Best way to start is to give it an identifiable name on the Aeros first (otherwise they’re all just called Song_01, Song_02 etc.) So for example if you name it “Jam in G”, record a 2x2 as a verse and chorus, rhythm and bass… then, when you open the memory card on your Mac, find the album folder. Then the folder called “Jam in G” and that contains 4 files.
Naming conventions is as follows:
Assuming you recorded… Verse/Guitar as Part 1, Track 1, that will be called CHASP1T1.wav
Verse/Bass for Part 1, Track 2, will be called CHASP1T2.wav
Then Chorus/Guitar = Part 2, Track 1, will be called CHBSP1T1.wav
And Chorus/Bass = Part 2, Track 2, will be called CHBSP1T2.wav
So the 3rd letter - A or B - indicates whether it’s the 1st or 2nd Part of the song (verse or chorus)
And the last digit - 1 or 2 - indicates the guitar or bass part
If you view as icon in the Mac folder, each file has a little ‘play’ arrow. Don’t double click or the file opens in iTunes. Just click the arrow and you can audition each track.
This can then be dragged into GarageBand and clipped to bar length as detailed in my first post
Once they’re in GarageBand I rename them as verse, chorus, intro, bridge, whatever… so I can see what I’m copy/pasting wherever I need it.
Great info, thank you!! One other question if you don’t mind, do you like the results you are getting out of your GB demos like this?
Yes, they’re great. I use them for practicing solos over, or teaching songs to band members or guitar pupils. I’m a worship leader in England & even used it to as the basis of a little CD I gave out to church members during Covid when they were missing our worship songs. Happy to help again if you get stuck.
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