Garage Band Loops won't import Jam Pack

Jam Pack automatically downloaded to Applications on my HD. I can't find a way to relocate it in the Loops section of GB2, making it inefficient and inconvenient to audition over 2000 loops. Any ideas out there?

I used wrong term "import". I "installed" it in my disk drive.
PowerPC G4 733MHz Mac OS X (10.3.8)

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Create a new GarageBand project using the "Voice" template.
Drag you wav file into the Track area of the GarageBand window to create an audio track for it.
Use the playback button to find the gaps between the songs.
Mark each song in turn with the cycle region. Press the button with the two blue chasing arrows to enable the cycle region. This will create a yellow bar at the top of the track area. Drag the ends of this bar to mark one of your songs.
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No Garage Band Loops are installing

Hope you guys can help me. I have installed iLife and have been attempting to use Garageband. Certain looping elements seem to work - but the Drum, Piano, Bass and Guitar loops do not seem to install. I have done multiple reinstalls and the Loops just don’t seem to be there. I DO have all of the single note samples of instruments, Sounds and Jingles and Garageband Demos.
I have read the previous posts about deleting the Apple Loops Index and then dropping the folders of the loops into the browser – but I think my problem is different: I have gone through the video tutorials and noted the names of some of the drum and bass loops that they used and then I’ve done a search in my computer for those loops after installing iLife. Names like 70’s Ballad Piano, 80’s Pop Beat and 80’s Dance Bass do not exist. I have done a search for AIF files and there are 3185 AIF files in my computer.
As I was about to try yet another installation, I decided to try installing just the Garageband element of the software rather than doing an easy install. While I was in the custom install portion of the software there are multiple checkboxes for the various elements of ilife. There are three portions: Garageband and two subfolders under Garageband named Garageband Instruments and Garageband Loops – which are grayed out. These cannot be checked and it would appear that the only elements that CAN be installed out of Garageband are Sounds and Jingles and Garage band Demos. This makes no since. Garageband opens and it plays back instrument samples and demos. It appears that it has total functionality with the exception of the Apple loops with are not even installing.
HELP!!!

EDIT: Nevermind

Garage Band Loops are missing.

I went to the Apple store to have iLife 09 installed onto my computer, but when I opened up Garage Band, almost all of the loops were missing. How do I go about getting them back?

they are greyed out, and when i click on them, it says install the update. but when i did that, there was no update to be had. plus, this is the 09 version, where as my re-install disc is the 08 version.

Remaining garage band loops

I got a new macbook and I do not have all of the garageband loops. How can I download the remaining Garageband loops from apple. i click on a greyed out one and it says it will use software update to download the remaining ones. Software update launches and it doesn't not find anything to download. What can be done about this?

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#cantdownloadloops
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

Garage Band Loops

I downloaded Garageband loops twice into Garageband, so now I have 2 of every kind of loop... How am I able to delete all those loop tracks that I have duplicates of?

• Quit GB.
• Delete the loops folders that you don't want.
• Delete all Loops Index files.
• Start GB, it'll warn you that it has no loops.
• Drag the loop folder(s) that you still want into the Loop Browser window.
• Done.

Garage Band LOOPS question

Hi,
I guess this question can apply to both Logic and GarageBand. When using loops am I locked into the "key" that they appear in? What I mean is this. Let's say I make a song in Amajor in 4/4 time. At that point all my loops appear in the key of A. The problem arises when I want to take the chord progression maybe from I - IV - vi - V - I or something. My question is... can I make those same loops play the appropriate chord for the key signature?
I hope this makes sense.
Thank you for any help you can offer.
B.

..I'm not exactly sure what you're asking. But..All the apple loops I've encountered have a series of different notes in one key. You can transpose them, but then not all of the notes in that loop will sound good with the original key. Does that make sense? For example...if you have a loop in A, then play the loop again in D (the IV of A)..it's likely it will contain G natural...a note that occurs in the key of D, but would sound bad in A.
On top of that..most apple loops are simply melodies. I would recommend layering one of them on top of a bass or piano or synth you'd recorded that would play the chords you want in your song.
Hope this answers your question.

No Garage Band Loops are installing SOLVED!!!!

I just wanted to thank nhmacusr for his very helpful answer to an old question as well as my recent post. I had done multiple installs and was still missing a substantial amount of basic instrument loops. His...or her (?!) recommendation were as follows:
GarageBand generally stores loops in two locations...
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops
and
/Users/<username>/Audio/Apple Loops
What I would do is this....
Delete all of your GarageBand files in Applications. Then go to
/Library/Receipts
Delete anything that has GarageBand in it.
Go to /Library/Audio/Apple Loop Index
Delete all of the files in there.
Go to /Users/<Username>/Library/Audio/Apple Loop Index and delete anything in there.
Reinstall GB from the iLife disk. That should give you a fresh install.
This TOTALLY worked. I think what happens is that after the initial install, Garageband assumes that you have all of the loops and then passes right over that part of the installation if you do subsequent installs. This would explain why people upgrading from version 2 to version 3 had some of the same issues that I did. I was getting really frustrated and the above advice really helped me.
Thanks!

EDIT: Nevermind

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To reinstall, delete GarageBand from the Applications Folder ⌘⌫, but don't empty the Trash.
Then go to the App Store, sign in with the AppleID you used to buy GarageBand, and open the "Purchased" tab. Press ⌘R to reload the page, if you do not see GrarageBand.
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How do you make a garage band loop longer

I am making a small promotional video and I'd like the loop to last two and a half minutes , the one i want to use is only 1 mnute 56 . how can i make it longer . ?
Thank you .

I assume you are talking about a jingle and not a loop - because you could just loop the loop to make it longer.
To lengthen the loop, there's musical ways to achieve that: find certain passages that you can repeat and puzzle them together, that'll keep the tempo of the music. If you can't or don't want to do that, you can stretch the loop to any desired length:
- Set your LED window to show seconds instead of musical measures.
- Double-click the jingle to open the Editor window.
- Check the "follow tempo and pitch" box, the program will go through some analyzing.
- Change the LED window do display the project parameters and play with the tempo slider. You will see that the region will get longer or shorter on the time axis (or the time axis contracts and extends), and you can set it so the piece fits the length of your video. (It's not continuous since the tempo goes in increments.)
However, in your case the music would become 25% slower. That might sound okay, but could also totally damage the feel of the song.

Installed Jam Pack but see no new loops in Garageband loop browser. Why not?

I successfully installed Jam Pack but don't see new loops in Garageband loop browser. Is there some extra step I'm supposed to do? Before, I had about 57 Rock/Blues loops, and I still have just that. I had 14 instruments under All Drums, and guess what? Still only 14.
I know the install completed successfully - it said so, anyway.
Clues?

Have you filters set on the Loop Browser? Make sure the GarageBand Preference "Loops > Keyword Browsing > Filter for more relevant content" is off. Otherwise you will see a fraction of the available loops.
To see, if the JamPack has been installed, set the pop-up meu at the top of the Loop Browser to "Rhythm Section". Is that available?
Did you reindex your Loops after installing the Jam Pack? And did you restart the Mac? In Mt. Lion only restarting a Mac will ensure, that an application is not resumed from a cache, when you launch it again.Restarting the Mac will terminate GarageBand for sure.
If restarting the Mac does not make the JamPack Loops show, rebuild the Loop index. See: Rebuilding the Loop Index in GarageBand 6 or earlier - Apple Support

Can't see Jam Pack Loops in Logic Studio Browser

I have searched many other forums but can't find the same problem. Usually it relates to a separate disk for loops.
I have Garageband and 4 Jam packs installed on my computer (Dual G5 latest OSX up to date). Jam pack 1, Rhythm Section, Symphony Orchestra and something else... anyway I purchased Logic Studio (8) and installed that. During installation I noticed that it detected that I already had some of the Jam Pack loops on my drive so they were "unchecked" automatically and therefore didn't install. Now when I look in the loop browser only the Jam Packs that Logic did install are viewable in my loop browser. Yet the other jam packs are indeed viewable in Garageband. All of this is installed on a single internal drive that is the system drive (500GB) by the way. So I dragged the Jam Pack folders to the logic loop browser and it appeared to be adding the loops, but they are still not visible there.
Also, there is no dialogue box that appears to ask if I want to copy them or leave in current location as many other users have said it should ask. maybe that's because it's all on one drive though.
The other concern is that I wonder if the software instruments that come with the jam packs would be installed/available in Logic? Surely not, if I am just adding the loops to the browser. How do I ensure that I have access to all of the loops and all of the software instruments?
Can anyone please help with this, it would be much appreciated.

Hi Jaffles,
The best thing to doo is go to the various "Apple Loops Index" folders, remove all the index files that are in there and then reindex your loops by dragging them into the loop Browser. The index files will then be rebuilt.
regards, Erik.

Importing vinvl albums via garage band have to import tunes individually .tunes willnot recombine into one album. I understand that it is because data available on cd's is not present on vinyl..any clues on how to fix this?

mac version 10.9.4.
importing vinyl albums via garage band. Have to import tunes individually as tunes will not retain individusl otherwise. trouble is they will not rejoin as one album in iTunes.I understand it is because data available on cd's is not on vinyl imports . Any clues on how to fix this?

"Have to import tunes individually as tunes will not retain individusl otherwise." -- I don't understand this sentence.
iTunes will not assign track names to items imported from vinyl. You will have to label the files yourself in the Get Info window. As long as you give all the tracks on an album the same album information and the same artist information they should group together. if the artists differ then you need to give all the tracks one common album artist (often "Various Artists")in addition to individual track artist.

Loading Jam Packs on Macbook Air without CD drive

Since my Macbook Air (with Lion) doesn't have a cd drive, I recreated the Jam Pack directories in my Macbook Air exactly as they appear on my iMac (with Lion), and copied and pasted the Jam Pack folders/files from my iMac to my MacBook Air using an external hard drive to do the transfer. Here is where I put the Jam Pack folders/files on my MacBook Air:
Jam Pack - 4 Symphony Orchestra and Jam Pack World Music:
Library>Audio>Apple Loops>Apple> (for the Jam Pack sounds)
Library>Audio>>Apple Loops Index> (for the Index files)
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Library>Application Support>Garage Band>Apple Loops Index (for the Index files)
However, when I fire up Garage Band, it still doesn't see the Jam Packs. Can anyone tell me why, and what I might do about it?
Thanks,
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You also do need the Instruments Library; otherwise the instruments to play the loops will be missing:
The Instruments Library is located in
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/
Ssee what else from /Library/Application Support/GarageBand you may need, also from the corresponding files in your user library.
To reindex your loops properly, reveal the Library>Application Support>Garage Band>Apple Loops files in the Finder, launch GarageBand, and drag the loops into your GarageBand Window, directly onto the Lopp Browser. Do that for all Loop Folders in your User Library.
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