So if OS X is more convenient (and WINE is a hassle) you can try them. My favorite and trusty XLD won't, but it turns out Macroplant's Adapter and MediaHuman's Audio Converter will. This had me curious what in my app folder on my Mac would batch convert cafs. On Windows, SonicAxiom's AVConvert seems like a much better idea :) This will convert to AAC, which can then be opened in converters that don't understand caf, but I believe you can add a service to convert to wav instead. In the meantime, on OS X, if you highlight a caf file (or several) and shift-click to get the contextual menu, go to services and Encode Selected Audio Files. I would be grateful for any help that anyone can give with this.Ģ017 'Apple Loops in Reaper' Thread mentioning the Easy Caf Converter program WAV, does it also convert all of the file's metadata?

If you have used Switch successfully to convert. Has anyone here successfully used NCH's 'Switch Audio File Converter'?ĥ. (My Mac now has a very old OS, and it is also difficult to hook my Mac up to the net, so it would be easier for me to copy the loops across to a PC and do the conversion on the PC).Ĥ. There is also an online option for converting sound formats this is called 'CloudConvert' - I would prefer to avoid using this if possible.ģ. WAV, but I am a bit suspicious of using NCH Software stuff because of all the bloatware that usually comes with all of its programs. I also found out that NCH Software's 'Switch Audio File Converter Software' can, apparently, convert. I cannot seem to find this program any more, and I also am not sure that the conversion would work for GarageBand even though GB is Logic's little brother.

One of the people on the thread I was reading here used this successfully, but someone else could not get the program to work. However, I came across a 2017 thread here on the forums (link below) in which someone had used a program called 'Easy CAF Converter for Logic Pro'.

WAV or any other format that I could use in Reaper (the native wrapper for these loops is. I never thought that I could convert the loops on the Mac to. Quite a while ago I switched to from GarageBand (and, to an extent, Reaper) on a Mac to Reaper on PC.

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