Loop Browser

I just bought a new 2.8 24" iMac. When I turned it on, I transfered all my files from my old iMac G5, including GarageBand, Logic Studio, and all Jam packs (which I paid for) to the new iMac. Unfortunately most loops are not active in the browser. They show up, without the blue or green icon, and if you click on one a box appears telling you the file isn't installed and asks you to go to software update to download the loops (I am current with all software). However, I have found these loops in my library: audio: apple loops: apple: apple loops for garage band. Most are aiff files. I could drag and drop them into Garage Band, but then I'll show duplicates in the browser. For example, I have 3,315 drum loops (I checked my old computer), but only 624 work in GarageBand on my new computer. By the way, Logic is missing about 170 loops on my new computer. Can someone offer a suggestion as to how to get these loops to work in GarageBand? Thanks in advance for your help.

I could drag and drop them into Garage Band, but then I'll show duplicates in the browser.
reindex the loops:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#reindex

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Problem previewing loops in the loop browser in Logic 8

Loops are only audible when the sequencer is not playing.
When the sequencer is playing, the selected loop shows it's playing in the loop browser window, but I cannot hear it.
ANY ANSWERS?
NOTE:
All my outputs in logic (including the loop browse strip) are routed to SPDIF OUT as I have a DynAudio digital speaker system.
Thanks in advance,
Hennie

I have found if you wait long enough, you will hear the file begin to play. Sometimes the delay can several seconds. Not acceptable IMO.

MIDI Loops & Loop Browser

Does anyone know if MIDI loops can be manually added to the Loop Browser?

that's as simple as make an apple loop with an audio file.
4 exemple:
u open exs 24, u record some drums, u open a compressor, eq ,etc(even non apple plug in).when ur happy with wath uv done,u just go to the menu region > add to aplle loops library
choose it a tag and it 's done.don't forget to define the right signature key (if it's a musical region),and well place the locator!
u can now open it in every project as an audio file or as a midi file,then logic will automaticaly open the right plug in (instrument,compressor,reverb,etc....)
extremaly usefull.

Re indexing issues in Apple Loop Browser (LP 9.0.2 / OSX 10.6.1 / Digi 002r

I'm trying to re index my loop browser in LP9 / OSX10.6.1
Are you having the same problem?
After trashing the 'Apple Loop Index', I pull in a folder from an external drive and notice that previous folders added to my browser have gone, including Jam Packs.
Also, I can't find the 're-index' option within the loop browser search option (right click brings down a list but the re-index option isn't there)
Interested to see whet you find.

Yep, I also had issues, where indexing the LP8 way (dragging folders with loops from the Finder onto the Logic loop browser) just bluffed to work (I dropped the folder on the LB, a progress window appeared, things apparently got done, but then nothing, no new entries in the Loop Browser.
So it seems that it is a L9 problem, since our Macs' are different in every aspect (Me: PPC- you: Intel, me: Leopard- you: Snow Leopard).
I finally decided to put all my loops in their default install locations and reindex them from there:
*Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple:*
Jam Pack 4 - Symphony Orchestra
Jam Pack Voices
Jam Pack World Music
*Library/Audio/Apple Loops/iLife Sound Effects:*
(13 folders)
*Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops:*
(some folders with my own and 3rd party Loops)
*Library/Application Support/Garageband/Apple Loops:*
Apple Loops for Garageband
Jam Pack 3- Rythm Section
for thorough reindexing, here are the steps:
1. Quit Logic and/or any other app that uses Apple Loops.
2. Go to all the locations I pointed out and trash all the index files from the *Apple Loops Index* folders. Also check the same locations in your Users/'you'/Library folder.
3. Start Logic with a new empty project, open the loop browser window by hitting the o key. Now drag the folders mentioned above in bold onto your loop browser. Logic should now index them correctly, including the foldermenu !http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4085966954bf4fc039d7o.png! in the loop browser.
regards, Erik.

Loop browser vs the loops in audio apple loops

My number is different in the loop browser. lets say
show all> i hit reset then all drums, the number is less than that that is what in the drum folder i have in the HD.
same for Guitar and others.
i.e. all the loops i have in the HD are not in the loop browser.
I have all prefs in Loop set to not filter and reset keywords.
is there a shortcut/proper method to show every loop i have in the HD showing in the loop browser.
I thank you all
and have a nice day making music.
glenn

Ht
an honor to hear from you
and i would hope you have 5 minutes to clarify or atleast add your thoughts here. I am puzzled by this.
I went ahead and bought thousands of loops from third party.
i have 2486 elect guitar loops.
and 349 acoustic guitar loops. filter is off
they are reindexed.
In the apple loops folder where i store all the loops, i have created folders for each instrument ( as close as i could associate them ).
i have the guitar electric folder ( 2486 loops ) acoustic (349 ) harp etc etc etc. If i type in names they show ( most seem to ) but one cannot memorize names of 10,000 loops. I cant!
so if i go into the lbrowser i am expecting to see in all guitars a number almost equal to about 2800. Now you say time signature will mismatch that. But you see there is a mismatch of about 600 guitar loops!? that doesnt make sense does it? they are residing elsewhere, where i do not know except ofcourse in my meticulous folder Guitar electric on my HD.
1. Reindexing makes sure that every loop in my HD is in the loop Browser isnt that the case. I dont remember if i dragged all of them over the browser or not.
2. It seems to me ( and see no other options here ) that if i want to be able to peruse all of my loops and have them accessible i have to have the lib>audio>apple loops>folders of loops open so that i can choose those that are not being brought up in the browser and as you say have time signatures that are different?
how do i then bring up those no shows in the browser if they are not showing up ( acc to you )due to signature problems because they might be usable if edited?
3. i could check off favorites couldnt I and then have maybe 2000 loops to chose from. Aint this a kick in the ***?
Im trying to organize as best i can what loops i have on the HD
so that i can see them exactly organized and neatly in the browser, but APPLE has made this very very difficult i think.
i appreciate your time thoughts and forgive me for insisting on an answer here which i may not get.

Has anyone experience a problem with not being able to add a drumbeat loop to a prerecorded project? When I open the loop browser, there are only a few options available. The rest are greyed out. I can only choose individual drum sounds, not full beats

I have created a project and recorded 2 tracks, one with a guitar and the other vocals. I would like to add a drum loop, but when I pull up the loop browser, all of the normal selections aren't available. Some are greyed out, including "Beats". "All Drums" is available, but when I click on it it pulls up some cymbal sounds only. I've opened some old recordings in GB to see if this is a consistent issue, but it's not. Only this one project won't allow me to use drum loops. Which leads me to believe there is something I have selected or not selected within the project that's not allowing me to see all the loops. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
G Clef

g_clef wrote:
Only this one project won't allow me to use drum loops.
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#missingloops ?
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

Simple question regarding the loop browser

Unless the loop is in a time different from 4/4
shouldnt every loop ( orchestral etc etc ) that is dragged over the loop browser be
incorporated into the loop browser and if the loops name is typed in should appear
in the browser?
is this written in stone?

No, by default you are only shown loops that are within 2 semitones of your song's key (and drum loops of course which have no key). There's an option in the prefs that you can uncheck to see all loops in your song's time signature (look for "keyword browsing").

What's the trick? Can't delete loops from Garageband loop browser.

Am I missing something? I've tried to delete 3rd party loops directly from the Garageband loop browser, but could not. It wouldn't work in Garageband 08, and it won't work in '09.
These loops were all added to the library by drag and drop into the loops browser.
Is there something I need to do with file permissions?

I think you can only delete loops from the browser that you created yourself with GB.
Just delete the loops in the Finder and re-index everything.

Some Apple Loops refuse to index when dropped onto the Loop Browser

I'm hoping somebody has a fix for this odd problem. Some of the Apple Loops which came with version 1.0.1 refuse to index via the loop browser.
First off, I had to re-install GarageBand 1.0.1 after an invalid library error message appeared after upgrading to Tiger. The re-install wasn't completed totally and it did the same thing on 2 attempts. The next error message was: Apple Loops are missing, or something to that effect. I had to install the Apple Loops found in HD->Library->Application Support->GarageBand by dropping them onto the GarageBand Loop Browser at the bottom of its window. It indexed them, they appeared, and I was happy.
Today, for some reason, I looked through the loops folder mentioned above and noticed about one third of the loops do not appear in the Loop Browser, naturally some really neat stuff is missing! So I decided to drag & drop these Apple loop files onto the browser individually. It says it's indexing them, althought the guitar icon in the dock jumps while doing so, but they never appear and don't show-up in the search box either. They can however be dropped onto the Timeline from the Finder and will play as a music file. The problem is that I cannot listen to them from the loop browser for easy selecting when arranging.
Is there any way to get these stubborn Apple files to appear & play in the Loop Browser? I was hoping they could be added via the Timeline to the Loop Browser, but have had no success. Also, I tried the Apple Loops Utility thinking maybe the appropriate tags were missing, but can't figure out what is missing, if anything.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Barb
iMac G5 20 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

The Loop Browser filters what it displays by only showing loops in the same Time Signature as the song you've created, and within 2 semitones of the Key your song is in.
You can change the latter by tuning off Keyword Browsing in GB's preferences.
--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-|>

Deleting from the loop browser

Is there a way to delete loop names from the loop browser drop down list and the actual loops themselves? I inadvertently (sp?) added loop folders that I had bought and downloaded to the loop browser without first naming the loop folders being added. So I now have a few generically named "apple loops" in the loop browser drop down list. I have since renamed the original folders and added it to the loop browser. I now have 2 copies of loop names in the drop down list; the only difference being the generic "apple loops" as opposed to the specific name of the loop folder added. I'm assuming I also now have two copies of the loops themselves since the names in the drop down list are different, which, of course, means more HD space being taken up. I cannot find anything about deleting this. I can't believe there isn't a way to do this. Any help?
Steve

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

I can't see Loops in Acid WAV format on Logic's loop Browser

Hi everybody,
I recently bought a bunch of loops in Acid WAV format that claims to be compatible with Apple Loops. I can see them and even I can hear them on my finder but they don't show up in Logic's loops browser which makes them useless...
They are placed in the correct file, I'm sure of that... I am suspicious of their real compatibility
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Thanks
Fran

I'm sure it's just a slip of the keyboard, but I presume by "they are placed in the correct file" you mean "folder". Just checking — which folder is that? On which drive?
There are lots of reasons why 3rd-party Loops might not work at first, including permissions problems, unrecommended locations, still being compressed or archived…
"Get Info…" (Command-I) on one of the files & see if it's locked & if you have read/write permission.
Let us know all the above stuff, & we can take it from there.

"Only files in Apple Loops format will be shown in the loop browser".

I recorded a Drum loop from my Korg m50 workstation into logic pro 9.
After recording i tried to import that loop into Apples loop library. After doing so i get this message.."Only files in Apple Loops format will be shown in the loop browser."
What do i do?
Please help.
Thanks
Rohan

I've recently gotten this error when I try to drag an audio file into the loops library (to create an apple loop.)
Comes along with Result Code=-43.
I'm trying to quantize some rhythmic loops using flex, then turn them into apple loops for the library.
My process:
Take original audio.
Flex it using slice mode.
Bounce in place.
Drag new region into Loops browser.
Errors ensue.

Can the loop browser be modified with ones own way of sorting loops

It has become a burdeon and very difficult to work effectively with GB3 loops. Can i somehow name the different categories my own way! like electric guitars distorted, elec gtrs riffs,
changing the name of these NONHELPFUL categories to suit my own HD arranged loops. In using this loop browser it takes so much time to find what im looking for and this could i think be made easier if i could make my own categories in the browser. Im asking for too much arent i?
do all of you use the favorites?
that would be too cumbersome also.
no way around all this overwhelming amounts of sounds loops fonts. How do you all arrange this in an orderly fashion or do you just use ten basic instruments/loops?
would like to hear from you all

Do you really have only one copy of each? Do a Finder/Spotlight search. There are several places where the loops could show up:
- the general Library/Audio folder
- the user Library/Audio folder
- the general Library/Application Support folder
- the User Library/Application Support folder
Did you install over an old version of GB? That might explain the duplicate loops. And the "single" loops that were either part of your old installation and not of GB3 or vice versa.
In order to repair that, you should trash the duplicate loops and the content of the Loops Index folder and then drag the remaining loops into the loop browser.

Imported loops are missing in the loop browser

I have been having this problem ever since I purchased my mac last September. I tried upgrading to iLife '05 and Garageband 2 to try and fix the problem to no avail. I have checked (and doublechecked) the loop indexes for Garageband. There are three of them. The first is for the original loops included in Garageband. Then there is the single loops folder. Finally, there is the loop index of my Soundtrack Loop library that I am trying to import. I should note, here as well that it HAS successfully indexed the entire Soundtrack Loop library. Even the loops that don't show up in the loop browser are accounted for in the loop index. Also, I have confirmed that all of the actual files are where they are supposed to be, referenced to by the index. I have tried reinstalling Garageband 2 twice, and found no change. Any other advice in this realm would be hot.
Thanx,
Ben

That's correct, 2 semitones. And of course you don't turn off the keyword browsing with this checkbox, you can still browse the loops by keywords. You turn off the "filter for better results" that doesn't show you the loops that are more than those 2 semitones away from the key that you set for your song. What you can't turn off is that the loop browser only shows you loops that match the measure of your song - so you get very few when you use an exotic measure.

I have had a reinstall nightmare getting my loops back they are in the apple library, I can access them through the media browser but I only have a few available through the loop browser, how do I get them all back there again? please help

I have had a reinstall nightmare getting my loops back they are in the apple library, I can access them through the media browser but I only have a few available through the loop browser, how do I get them all back there again? please help

"Where do I find my hundreds of dollars of downloads I have done since 2005?"
They will only be where you put them If you are doing the very basics, then they will be on your computer and they will be in your backup copy of your computer.
The itunes store is not global at all, never has been. You cannot redownload your content from another country. You can only use the countrys itunes store for the country that you are physically located.

I have some loops from acid 5 which I have dragged in a folder to the loop browser. Some of them retain the folder name in the View: and some don't. I have had some that seem to go in but I can't find them. Where should I look?

I have some loops from acid 5 which I have dragged in a folder to the loop browser. Some of them retain the folder name in the View: and some don't. I have also had some that seem to go in but I can't find them. If I try to add them again, I get a msg that they are already there. Where should I look?

It may be best to recreate the folder and the smart playlists from scratch.
tt2

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