Loops in Garage band

So I loop regions left and right to record several takes and i always have set it up with the loop button on the bottom next to the metronome button. I know to turn on and off the click track is "cloverleaf U" but i cant find the shortcut for looping? does it exist? or can i just not find it in the help section?

Sorry, I don't understand - what exactly are you trying to achieve?

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Where can I get additional loops for garage band

I have been limited in the groves in the drum beats and grooves that came with Garage Band 11, I would like to add addional loops.
How does one go about useing loops THAT WORK SEMELESSLY WITH GB
jojoguitar

How does one go about useing loops THAT WORK SEMELESSLY WITH GB
The best solution for additional GarageBand loops would be to get the JamPacks, i.e. JamPack "Remix Tools" and "Rhythm Section". These will give you plenty of drum beats and grooves.
The Jam Packs have been discontinued, but you get them all, when you buy Mainstage 2 at the AppStore for a moderate fee. Mainstage 2 will install all Jam Packs and additional instruments in the same place where GarageBand and Logic loops and instruments are installed, so you can use them seemlessly from GarageBand as well. And the price for MainStage 2 with all JamPacks included is as far less than the price for a single JamPack used to be.
Alternately search the Bullets & Bones FAQ for free loops http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/PlugInsDrumLoops.html
Regards
Léonie

All of my instrument loops from Garage band '09 have disappeared. What do I do?

All of the insturment loops I have been using have disappeared. They don't show up in new projects, nor are they accessible in old ones that were created using the loops. I have tried to locate the loops on the HD as others have posted but they are not there. They only loops that exist there are the FX loops which I have access to. Why has this happened and what can I do? Using an iMac if that makes a difference. Also, I suspect that a software update may have been conducted recently, so this might suggest where the problem started. Can I check if one indeed has? (I'm not the only user of the computer).

Well we need a lot more information
like what version of iPhoto and of the OS? What recently changed? do you have a backup?
If you depress and hold the opeion key and launch iPhoto do you see multiple libraries in the select library window that results? If you do check each one
LN

Can't download loops for Garage Band '11

I tried to access a few drum loops from my library, and it said that I had to download an update from the App Store, but when I click "Download Now" the App Store says there's no updates available. How can I fix this???

Is this your first GarageBand installation, fresh from the AppStore, or did you upgrade and reinstall GarageBand?
If it is a new insrallation, make sure you are signed into to AppStore with the AppleID you used to buy GarageBand, before you try to download the additional contents in GarageBand.
but when I click "Download Now" the App Store says there's no updates available.
Don't click "Download Now", but click "Download Later".
Wait a bit, then quit the AppStore, and open it again, to reload the Purchases page and look for an update.
But that alone may not suffice.
To make the additional content appear you may have to do the full monty and deinstall GarageBand completely, reboot, then reinstall.
See Dagon's post here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3039094?start=0&tstart=0
Regards
Léonie

Duplicate "Apple Loops for Garage Band"...which ones should I keep?

Hi. I've just started using GarageBand 3 (3.0.4), and noticed that I have duplicates of each and every instrument loop. Both Loops folders are located in my user:Library, one in "Audio" the other in "Application Support". Once you drill down to the actual "Loops" folder, the contents are exactly the same. Which one should I keep, which should I toss (it takes up a gig, which is why I want to toss one.)?

You have to locate your Loops Index files (good chance you have two folders with that name), then start GB and drag the loops that you still want into the Loops window for re-indexing.
Uh presumably after you have located the Index files and before you start GB, you are supposed to do something to the Index files (like delete them)? Maybe this was implied, but it was not explicit.

Original Loops For Garage Band

Hi Gang
Anyone ever buy from this gentleman?
He's got 100% feedback, and he claims that all his loops are 'ORIGINAL' not counterfeit Discs of Apple Jam Packs.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150417752948
Thanx
Mike
http://vimeo.com/7340608

Hi tscassid
Ok here's the story, (and it's probably an OLD story) for some.
This gentleman has 100% feedback, and claims all his loops are 'ORIGINAL' not counterfeit Discs of Apple Jam Packs. My gut feeling is that he's honest, and all he's doing is offering a creative alternative to Jam Pack Loops.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150417752948
I wouldn't trust this guy;
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-GarageBand-Jam-Pack-3-Rhythm-Section-News-Awesome_W0QQ itemZ250586593913 < He already told me that his software are copies of Apple Jam Packs!
And I would ABSOLUTELY NOT trust this guy;
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://macworldmusic.com/software.aspx < This SOB sent me a cracked hoaky disc copy, and Pay Pal will NOT help here because it's NOT an ebay transaction. END OF STORY!
I'm ashamed to say I usually don't fall for stuff like this. Luckily I'm only out $36. These BRAZEN BAST**DS ACTUALLY USE THE APPLE LOGO WITH NO FEAR!
FOLKS PAY HEED HERE - Buy the REAL THING!
Thanx
Mike
<a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://vimeo.com/7340608

I'm Just wondering how to make drum beats in garage band using the sounds it comes with? Also how can i use garage band like a drum machine which i can program an entire song part by part????

I'm new to using Garageband and loops with garage band. I just wanted to see if there was a way for me to use the drum sounds provided in garageband to create my own original drum tracks and work with it like a drum machine that i can program an entire song into... any info or tutorials would be a great help.. Thanks!!!

Ah ok, I have a better idea of what you want to do now.
Unfortunately there isn't anything inside GB that can come anywhere close to Acoustica Beatcraft, but there are two tools inside Garageband that can help you do something similar.
First are the built-in keyboards, which will enable you to trigger drum samples with your computer keyboard or mouse. Go to Window -> Keyboard or Window -> Musical Typing. Click with your mouse on the Keyboard or press keys on your computer keyboard with Musical Typing, and you will trigger different drum samples for whatever kit you've chosen for that software track.
Next is the Track Editor: in Piano Roll mode, you can create and see midi notes somewhat similar to the view in this screenshot from AB. On the left side of the Editor, you will see a sideways piano keyboard. When you assign a drum kit to a software track, each of the piano keys corresponds to a different instrument: hi hat, snare, bass drum, etc---you'll have to play them using the on-screen keyboard or musical typing to see what they correspond to. In order to add a MIDI note you hold the CMD button and click with the mouse.
So, if you wanted to add a closed hi-hat hit, you would CMD-click on the Track Editor row corresponding to the closed hi-hat piano key, and then you can drag the MIDI note left & right to change the beat it plays on, or resize the note, which will change its duration.
Or, as you've already observed, you can use Musical Typing to play out a pattern on your computer keyboard while recording, and you will see the midi notes appear in real time in the Track Editor.
Hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions.

How to transfer Garage Band to new computer with all selfmade stuff

I just got myself a new macbook pro with of course garage band preinstalled.
I transfered all my .band projects from my old macbook and the loops i made too.
i put the loops in the same directory as they were on my old macbook hd/library/audio/apple loops/user loops/ but garage band didn't find them so i manually mooved them into the loop browser in garage band.
only problem: i have to mark them all as favorites again and whenever i open an old .band project for the first time gb has to search for each one again.
can you tell me how to do it better next time?
but now to the more important and current problem:
where do i find my selfmade software instruments on my old macbook and where do i have to put them on my new one?
and is there anything else i might need from my old gb that i didn't think of?
thanks,
paul

The best way would have been to use the Migration Assistant - it would have moved your whole user folder and your personal stuff over to the new computer.
About the instruments: There could be two Instrument Library folders, under HD/Library/Application Support/GarageBand and User/Library/Application Support/GarageBand (depending on whether you made the instruments available to all users.) If the other GB is a standard installation of the same version, you can just replace the folders on the new computer with the ones from the old machine, and all your instruments should be there. (The "if" refers to the fact that by doing this you lose all custom instruments you might have made on the new computer.)

Garage Band is recognizing ".aif" format loops but not ".aiff" format loops

All of the ".aif"-formatted loops (from Jam Packs, etc.) are showing up fine in the Loop Browser, but other loops I bought from third-party vendors that are in the ".aiff" format are not showing up at all in the loop browser. They are all in the same correct folder for loops on my system along with the working Jam Pack loops. I tried dragging and dropping a bunch of these loops onto the blank space on an open session based on some advice I read on the internet, and Garage Band processed them (and created new instrument tracks on the screen for each loop) but they did not subsequently show up in the loop browser as I had hoped. Do I need to reformat these to ".aif" somehow? Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Just to follow up, draggging the loop folders into the loop browser didn't work exactly on its own, but I got it to work in the following manner. First I went to the finder and deleted the apple loop indexes in each of the two locations where apple loops are stored in my computer (note to Apple: why multiple different folders for Apple Loops?). Then I dragged all of the Apple Loops that were stored in the second loops folder (in the Library under "Audio") to the first Apple Loops folder. Then I dragged both entire Apple Loops folders (required even though the second one was now empty) into the loop browser. Upon dragging the second one in, Garage Band automatically began reindexing my loops and then everything showed up in the loop browser correctly, finally. Apparently both (or all) locations where Garage Band stores loops must be individually dragged into the loop browser to trigger the reindexing process. This process was harder than it should be and I feel like it represents an annoying bug in Garage Band, in addition to the help from this post I also had to google research the problem for quite some time to figure out this process.

Garage Band Loops are all greyed out,

There are no drum loops at all on my garage band. They are all "greyed" out. This is a new mac and came with leopard which I installed myself. Could it be that the install didn't go correctly and needs to be redone or is this something additional I have to purchase?

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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.

When I open Garage Band '09 it says" No Apple Loops found; There are no Apple Loops installed on your System. Please reinstall the Apple Loop Package".

I have garage band '09 on my mac. When I open garage band a little notice pops up saying "No Apple Loops found; There are no Apple Loops installed on your System. Please reinstall the Apple Loop Package" I have followed the instructions on the apple web page and it didn't work. I looked in all of the locations on my mac and all of the folders that should contain apple loops are empty. Is there a way I can redownload the apple loops to my mac without buying garage band '11 or one of the jam packs????????????????

swimmerT wrote:
I have followed the instructions on the apple web page and it didn't work.
without knowing what you did, it's impossible to guess what might be wrong
swimmerT wrote:
Is there a way I can redownload the apple loops to my mac
no
swimmerT wrote:
without buying garage band '11 or one of the jam packs????????????????
yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! reinstall GB 09:
http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/GBFAQ.html#reinstallgb
(Let the page FULLY load. The link to your answer is at the top of your screen)

I have Garage Band for my Macbook Pro. It runs on OS 10.5.8. Can I buy JamPack loops and sounds for it? Thanks.

Can I purchase JamPack loops and sounds for MacBook Pro, running on OS 10.5.8? I already have Garage Band app.

First you would need to meet these requirements:
To install Mavericks, you need one of these Macs:
iMac (Mid-2007 or later)
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later),
MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)
MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
Mac mini (Early 2009 or later)
Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
Xserve (Early 2009)
Your Mac also needs:
OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed
2 GB or more of memory
8 GB or more of available space
Genius bar could help you over the counter
Genius reservation http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

How do I create a 4 second long loop that is repeated for say a minute long on garage band, I'm sure it can done, please help

How do I create a 4 second long loop that is repeated for say a minute long on garage band, I'm sure it can done, please help, I now own a new mac book.

Rachel Dalby wrote:
How do I create a 4 second long loop that is repeated for say a minute long
drag the top right corner of the region for as long as you want it

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