HOW TO Sync and share music projects
Use iCloud Drive
The simplest way to share your music project is to put it in an iCloud Drive folder, Ctrl–click and choose Share File. However, this only works if the recipient has either macOS 10.15 or later, iOS 13.4 or later, or iCloud For Windows.
Use another cloud
Alternatively, put the project into another cloud storage/sharing service, such as Dropbox or Microsoft’s OneDrive. Anything put in a Dropbox or OneDrive folder works just as it does with iCloud, updating and syncing as it’s changed.
Share with Splice
Our favorite way to collaborate remotely is via a service called Splice. It works on Macs and PCs, and is designed for musicians, with support for Logic Pro X, Ableton Live, and GarageBand. Download and install from splice.com.
Drag or copy
The app creates a new folder on your Mac called Splice. Now, you can drag your musical projects into it from another Finder window, or save directly into it from your music app. Here, we’re dragging a bunch of Logic Pro songs.
Upload your songs
Splice will automatically upload anything new or updated in your Splice folder to the cloud — here, our Logic projects are uploading. Once uploaded, open the project from within Splice, or view it on the Splice website.
See on the web
This is where things get interesting. Splice not only uploads your Logic project, it also gives an overview of the tracks in it. You or your collaborators can leave comments on those individual tracks.
Invite the band
Hover to the right of a project’s Open button in the Splice app, and you’ll see a ‘…’ icon. Click and choose Manage Collaborators to add collaborators to that project. They’ll need to have signed up for Splice before you can add them.
Do your thing
If you and your collaborators all use Splice, it will automatically update everybody when someone saves the Logic project. It will also keep the previous versions so you can recover from any bad decisions!
Export for other apps
If not all of the band members have a Mac, don’t worry. Splice lets you share the individual tracks, called stems. To make stems in Logic, use File > Export > All Tracks As Audio Files.
Share your stems
Splice only shares projects, not stems, so you need to do that manually online. You can do it in two ways: By dragging from the Finder over the Attach Stem Files bit of the Splice screen, or by using the Add Stems button.
Upload for anyone
The benefit of sharing stems is that they work with any music app, but the person you’re sharing with needs to know the project tempo so they can sync any click track or MIDI with the song. Do so by including the BPM in the filenames.
Share your song
Once your stems are uploaded, collaborators can download them. You’ll need them to export the stem of what they record and share it in the same way: Splice can’t update your Logic project if the other person isn’t using Logic.