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Blocs Wave - Transfer projects between devices?

A quick question for everybody out there concerning the excellent Blocs Wave. My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

Is there any way to transfer projects, with all their assets, between devices? Like if I start something on the iPhone version can I get it into the iPad version to continue work on it?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Nevermind. I exported the project zip file to Dropbox then unzipped it into Augioshare on my iPad. Then I imported each part into Blocs Wave on my iPad. Clunky but it worked.

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  • @Paulyboy said:
    A quick question for everybody out there concerning the excellent Blocs Wave. My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

    Is there any way to transfer projects, with all their assets, between devices? Like if I start something on the iPhone version can I get it into the iPad version to continue work on it?

    Thanks in advance.

    EDIT: Nevermind. I exported the project zip file to Dropbox then unzipped it into Augioshare on my iPad. Then I imported each part into Blocs Wave on my iPad. Clunky but it worked.

    Yeah pretty much the best way as far as I know. Doesn't obviously give you an exact copy if you are using chopped up beats, but it's possible to get those set up again with time and effort.

  • @Fruitbat1919 said:

    @Paulyboy said:
    A quick question for everybody out there concerning the excellent Blocs Wave. My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

    Is there any way to transfer projects, with all their assets, between devices? Like if I start something on the iPhone version can I get it into the iPad version to continue work on it?

    Thanks in advance.

    EDIT: Nevermind. I exported the project zip file to Dropbox then unzipped it into Augioshare on my iPad. Then I imported each part into Blocs Wave on my iPad. Clunky but it worked.

    Yeah pretty much the best way as far as I know. Doesn't obviously give you an exact copy if you are using chopped up beats, but it's possible to get those set up again with time and effort.

    Or if you want them to stay in their final chopped state you can 'flatten' them first.

    It will also lose any volume or panning changes you have made, Flatten should sort these too, although i haven't checked.

  • edited January 2017

    It would be great if, in the next update, Blocs Wave included some kind of external back up utility. Ideally, something that could export a whole project file, then import it back into the app fully reconstituted. Ever since Apple helpfully prevented backing up, the possibility of losing work permanently has been on my mind.

  • @AndyPlankton said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    @Paulyboy said:
    A quick question for everybody out there concerning the excellent Blocs Wave. My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

    Is there any way to transfer projects, with all their assets, between devices? Like if I start something on the iPhone version can I get it into the iPad version to continue work on it?

    Thanks in advance.

    EDIT: Nevermind. I exported the project zip file to Dropbox then unzipped it into Augioshare on my iPad. Then I imported each part into Blocs Wave on my iPad. Clunky but it worked.

    Yeah pretty much the best way as far as I know. Doesn't obviously give you an exact copy if you are using chopped up beats, but it's possible to get those set up again with time and effort.

    Or if you want them to stay in their final chopped state you can 'flatten' them first.

    It will also lose any volume or panning changes you have made, Flatten should sort these too, although i haven't checked.

    Or if you have left over slots, it's probably best to copy then flatten, as then you can have both chopped and non chopped if you switch between them.

  • @Fruitbat1919 said:

    @AndyPlankton said:

    @Fruitbat1919 said:

    Yeah pretty much the best way as far as I know. Doesn't obviously give you an exact copy if you are using chopped up beats, but it's possible to get those set up again with time and effort.

    Or if you want them to stay in their final chopped state you can 'flatten' them first.

    It will also lose any volume or panning changes you have made, Flatten should sort these too, although i haven't checked.

    Or if you have left over slots, it's probably best to copy then flatten, as then you can have both chopped and non chopped if you switch between them.

    Thanks for the tip!

  • @AndyPlankton said:

    Or if you want them to stay in their final chopped state you can 'flatten' them first.

    It will also lose any volume or panning changes you have made, Flatten should sort these too, although i haven't checked.

    Ok thanks. I'll try that.

  • @Paulyboy said:
    A quick question for everybody out there concerning the excellent Blocs Wave. My apologies if this has been answered elsewhere.

    Is there any way to transfer projects, with all their assets, between devices? Like if I start something on the iPhone version can I get it into the iPad version to continue work on it?

    Thanks in advance.

    EDIT: Nevermind. I exported the project zip file to Dropbox then unzipped it into Augioshare on my iPad. Then I imported each part into Blocs Wave on my iPad. Clunky but it worked.

    A back up update would be super good and is very necessary. I hope it happens soon as I'm faced with this issue after purchasing the new iPad Pro. I wanted to transfer everything from an iPad six to the iPad Pro. No luck with novation

  • When I got my new iPhone Recently, my BlocsWave projects copied across from the iCloud backup flawlessly.

    I do have extra iCloud storage. Everybody should. 5Gb as the free tier In 2019 is derisory.

    Number 1 iOS tip. Get extra iCloud storage. It’s essential! ;-)

  • edited December 2019

    Is there a way to do this neatly yet? I want to transfer a project from iPad to my iPhone. Do you have to flatten?

  • In 2020 , is this possible seamlessly?

  • edited July 2020

    There is only one thing missing in the share dialog in BlocsWave:
    You can already share "Project Files" but you don't get what you think you'd get:
    You get rendered loops instead.

    @AmpifyxNovation:
    Sharing Project Files should create a zip with the original project files that can be shared with another iDevice, e.g. over AirDrop and the destination BlocsWave would know how to extract the zip into its own project folder.

    I would suggest to rename the current "Project Files" sharing menu item to something like "Project Stems" to actually export individual rendered stems.

  • Honestly i never understood why they don't just include icloud sync between devices,

  • edited July 2020

    @rs2000 said:
    There is only one thing missing in the share dialog in BlocsWave:
    You can already share "Project Files" but you don't get what you think you'd get:
    You get rendered loops instead.

    @AmpifyxNovation:
    Sharing Project Files should create a zip with the original project files that can be shared with another iDevice, e.g. over AirDrop and the destination BlocsWave would know how to extract the zip into its own project folder.

    I would suggest to rename the current "Project Files" sharing menu item to something like "Project Stems" to actually export individual rendered stems.

    BeatHawk sorta does this
    Would be nice if blocs wav can do it

  • It is a total shame and why I for the most part bailed on Blocs.

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