Export

Good Take is where ideas start, not where they finish. Everything you capture can leave the app — as audio, as MIDI, or as a whole project bundle ready to open in a DAW.

Sharing Audio

Share any recording as an audio file through the standard iOS share sheet: AirDrop, Messages, email, Files, Dropbox, or any other app that accepts audio.

The file format depends on how the idea was recorded. Under Settings → Recording Quality you choose between:

• Compressed (M4A) — AAC encoding, much smaller files. The default.
• Lossless (WAV) — full-quality uncompressed audio.

Settings → Default Export Format then controls what you get when you share. Compressed recordings export as M4A. Lossless recordings can be exported as WAV or AIFF as well — lossless export isn’t offered for compressed sources, because the quality isn’t there to recover.

MIDI Export

Anything Good Take captured as notes rather than audio can leave as a Standard MIDI File, so you can drop it straight onto a track and reassign the instrument.

From an idea’s detail screen you can export:

• Notes MIDI — the drum hits you played in the Beatmaker and the keys you played on the Keyboard.
• Chords MIDI — the chord progression detected from the recording.

Both are written as Format 0 MIDI files at 480 ticks per quarter note, with a tempo event set from the idea’s detected BPM. That last part matters: the file lands on your DAW’s grid at the right tempo instead of arriving at a default 120 and needing to be stretched.

Sharing an Idea as Text

The share sheet also offers a plain-text summary of an idea — title, key, BPM, tags, and any transcribed lyrics or notes. Useful for pasting into a message, a notes app, or an email to a bandmate who doesn’t need the audio yet.

Project Bundles

Export a whole project at once and you get a single ZIP, organised so a DAW session can be rebuilt from it:

My_Project/
  audio/
    01_Verse_Idea.m4a
    02_Chorus_Sketch.m4a
  midi/
    01_Verse_Idea_notes.mid
    01_Verse_Idea_chords.mid
    02_Chorus_Sketch_chords.mid

Ideas are numbered in the project’s own running order, so the export preserves the sequence you arranged rather than dumping files alphabetically. Each idea contributes its audio, plus a notes MIDI file if you played something in, plus a chords MIDI file if chords were detected — ideas with no captured notes simply have no notes file.

This is the fastest way to move a collection of sketches into Logic, Ableton, GarageBand, or Reaper, or to hand a whole song’s worth of fragments to a collaborator in one file.

Where Exports Go

Exports are written to the app’s exports folder and handed to the iOS share sheet. Nothing is uploaded anywhere in the process — see iCloud Sync for how your library moves between your own devices, and the privacy policy for what leaves your phone and what doesn’t.