Unable to index/use apple loops

each time i click on the apple loops button to access them, the programm crashes/is unresponsive.... any idea what could be the reasons? anyone..?

Hi olewagner,
Welcome to the Support Communities! The article below will help you troubleshoot the issue you are having with Logic Pro X.
Logic Pro X: Troubleshooting basics
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT200260?viewlocale=en_US
I hope this information helps ....
- Judy

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I'm wondering about using Apple loops in music. Is it ok to do so to make music for people to hear, without it being sold. And how do you get permission to use them in music to sell?

I'm wondering about using Apple loops in music. Is it ok to do so to make music for people to hear,like on soundcloud or other websites, without it being sold. And how do you get permission to use them in music to sell?

From the LOGIC STUDIO SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT :
C. Except as otherwise indicated, you may use the Apple and third party audio file content (including, but not limited to, the Apple Loops, built-insound files, samples and impulse responses) (collectively the “Audio Content”), contained in or otherwise included with the Apple Software, on aroyalty-free basis, to create your own original soundtracks for your film, video and audio projects. You may broadcast and/or distribute your ownsoundtracks that were created using the Audio Content, however, individual Apple loops, audio files, sound settings, samples and impulse responsesmay not be commercially or otherwise distributed on a standalone basis, nor may they be repackaged in whole or in part as audio samples, soundfiles, sound effects or music beds.
This means, you can use all Apple Loops in your music, they're royality-free.
Best,
DaCaptain

Problems with indexing and Apple Loops on External Drive

Ok, so I've recently moved my entire "Apple Loops" folder to an external drive and created an alias pointing back the "Audio" folder where the apple loops folder used to reside. The problem is when I bring up the loop browser, it's not finding the loops. Do I need to move the Apple Loops Index to the external hard drive as well? I assumed by creating an alias, it would just go to my external drive.

Someone had said that it's better to use the alias for the apple loops since Logic will always go to where it expects the loops to be first. Which I'm assuming would be faster. But, if it truly doesn't matter and I should just drop all my apple loop folders one by one from my external hard drive, then I"ll do that. Anyone heard about what's faster....alias Vs. external HD direct path?

Creating new 'category/index' for apple loops in logic

As well as the standard apple loops, I currently have an additional apple loops jampack & a number of self-made apple loops.
These have been indexed automatically, & can be referenced via the drop-down on the top right of the loop browser as 'jampack' & 'my loops' respectively.
I've just bought a 3rd party dvd of apple loops, & would like to be able to reference these via the same kind of category in the loopbrowser drop down, however, the 3rd party DVD has no 'installer' like the official jampack, but instead just has folders of 'apple-loopyfied' AIFFs to drop in the loop browser.
I assume if this is the case they will appear by default under 'my loops', which isn't ideal - is there a way I can manually create another category(/folder?) for these loops which I can reference via Logic's loop browser drop-down?
Any help appreciated
Adam

ok, still stuck on this but have found the following from page 61 on 'new in logic 7.2'
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/NewFeatures_in_Logic_Pro7.2.pdf
'To keep things tidy, the loop browser offers advanced loop management tools, the jam pack management drop-down allows you to limit the display to loops from a specific jam pack, or other folder' .....then....describing an option from the pull-down, 'vendor x - choose to play loops from a specific third party vendor'
- this looks perfect for what i want to do, but i assume a vendor must include certain data/meta-data in their loops for this indexing to work & display under vendor x as a dropdown, how do i know if the dvd I have bought will have this? hmmmm....

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.

Manually Index Apple Loops in Logic Studio?

I've been using Puremagnetik (www.puremagnetik.com) Apple loops for quite a while now and they all worked fine until I installed Logic Studio. Now the browser doesn't see them. Is there a way manually "force" index the Apple Loop Browser? I remember in Logic 7 there was a way to do this, but I don't see it here.

yes, you can use these freely.

Play Apple Loops "in the mix" is slow / unusable

Hello All
I used Apple Loops for quite a while now within my projects. In the earlier versions it was possible to listen to apple loops while playing in the mix and switching the the next loop was allmost in realtime.
*PROBLEM NOW* : while the sequencer is not running, i can prelisten all the apple loops and switch beetween them in realtime, while the sequencer is playing, the loops take up to 4 bars until they play / change.
Anyone else ? Played allready with the latency settings and buffer size and so on.
Any advice would be welcome.
Daniel

I would also like to know the answer to this question if you've figured it out. Thanks.

How do you turn third-party midi loops into Apple Loops?

Does anyone know how to turn third-party midi loops into Apple Loops? I've got hundreds of short midi files that I purchased, and I would like to be able to use them in the loop browser of Logic Studio. I tried some of the obvious ways of doing this, like using Apple Loop Utility, but it doesn't seem to recognize .mid files. Seems like .mid files would be right up its alley, so maybe I'm doing something wrong...

Yes, have the same problem but with wav loops. i have 75000 wav loops from third part and do not find how to "logicized" it. For the moment i can use them into a project but they are not adapting when i change the bpm of the projetc for exemple.
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Apple Loops

Hey all, i have been successfully converting various sound files to apple loops (full disclosure i like making sample based hip hop, a la beastie boys, etc). recently when i am editing a piece of audio, rather than importing the correct region information into apple loops browser, i will go to retrieve the sample and the tempo will be different from what was assigned and there will be dead air at the end of the loop. i'm sorry if this is unclear, but any help at all would be much appreciated. thanks.
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Dan,
This is what I do to create and use Apple Loops in Logic 8
http://www.digimixstudios.net/sd1al/
Maybe this can help you.

Apple Loops Into Ableton

I know you can rewire Ableton into Logic but is there a way to use Apple loops in Ableton?

1. The MIDI AND Audio loops are all in .CAF format. I'm not sure there's a way to tell which are which when looking at the files themselves. The only way I can tell is by looking at them in the Loop Browser.
2. I'm not positive about this, but I'm pretty sure that only Logic can understand the metadata contained in the Apple Loops that contains the MIDI info. Hopefully someone else will chime in and clarify this point. If Ableton can understand .CAF files, I think they will import only as audio files.
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GB won't open- This is what I get... Path does not exist: /Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index st: /Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index w/out this directory you cannot use the Loop Browser

Path does not exist: /Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index st: /Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index w/out this directory you cannot use the Loop Browser. Then I get this message...
Instrument Library Invalid
GarageBand Ecpects a valid instrument foledr in /Libraty/Application Support/GarageBand
Please choose a valid instrument Library folder or quit and re-install GB
Any solutions?

Is this a new installation of GarageBand or has it worked before on the same computer?
Or have you transferrred your GarageBand from a different computer?
The error message is saying, that your GarageBand installation is incomplete. There are essential foldrs missing in your system library.
Check, if indeed both folders are missing or if only the permissions are set incorrectly.
Your system library (the folder "System" directly on your system drive) should have the following folders inside the folder "Audio", and they need to be readable by the system and by administrators.
And in the folder /Library/Application Support there should be the Instrument Library.
If these folders do not exist (or no longer exist), restore them from your backup- If your GarageBand version is a new installation, the application may not hve been downloaded or installed completely, then reinstall GarageBand.
What is your GarageBAnd version, and how did you install it originally?
Regards
Léonie

Error on start: Path does not exist: /Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index

I get the error "Path does not exist: /Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index
Without this directory you can not use the LoopBrowser. Please make sure this directory exists" when starting Garage Band. I also cannot use the onscreen keyboard, or musical typing in GarageBand. All other sounds work fine.
The only thing that changed since I last used GB was that I installed Leopard. (and that was a while ago, so I thought all was well and got rid of my last Tiger backup. )
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Another update: I tried to reinstall garage band from the disks that came with my mac, but got the error:
"Install Failed
Unable to Install
The Installer could not install the software because there was no software found to install."
The following errors appeared in Console:
4/7/08 4/7/08 9:50:08 PM kernel SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03, ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00
4/7/08 4/7/08 9:50:09 PM kernel SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03, ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00
4/7/08 4/7/08 9:50:09 PM kernel disk2s3: I/O error.
4/7/08 4/7/08 9:50:10 PM Installer[519] -[IFPkg(InfoConversionPrivate) _parseOldStyleForLanguage:] - can't find .info file (GarageBand)
4/7/08 4/7/08 9:50:10 PM Installer[519] The package "GarageBand" could not be opened. This can happen if the package has incorrect permissions or if the package has been renamed.
4/7/08 4/7/08 9:50:10 PM Installer[519] PFPackage::packageWithURL - can't instantiate package: /Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc 2/Packages/GarageBand.mpkg/Contents/Installers/GarageBand.pkg
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Loop Browser - Removing files/folders not indexed in the Apple Loops Index

Hi...
I experimented with dragging in a SFX folder to the Logic Pro Loop Browser window. It asked me if I wanted to copy files to the Apple Loops folder or reference the original files, and I selected reference the originasl files.
The SFX files were then listed under the OTHER area of the View menu.
Question... HOW do I remove these SFX files/folder from the OTHER view menu?
I have tried deleting all of the Apple Loop Index files and that did not work.
I have tried deleting the actual SFX files/folders, and after they disappear, but when I restore the SFX files/folders to their source location they reappear in the logic browser view menu.
Is there some where else Logic stores Loop Browser reference data which can be deleted to remove these OTHER files/folders from the Loop Browser view menu?
Thanks

Success...
OK I found the solution.
1) I deleted the SFX audio files from the referenced HDD source location.
2) I opened Logic and re-index the Loop Browser.
3) I quit Logic and copied the SFX files back to the HDD.
When I opened Logic this time, the SFX files/folders referenced under the OTHER menu were gone.
Because I have a huge production music & SFX library, the best way to audition these sources for use in a Logic project, is to audition in iTunes and then just drag whatever I need right from within itunes into the Logic project.
That keeps my Logic loop browser more manageable and focused on composing.

Apple loops won't index

I use Logic Expres 9.1.5.
So, I've made 160+ apple loops of drum parts. They are all playable in the Apple Loops utility when I open them.
However, for some nonsensical reason, no more than 31 of them will shop up in my loop browser when I re-index.
I've trashed the index file, re-indexed them by dragging them into the browser window - stil no more than 31.
What's even more bizarre is that when I only drag a few of them at a time, all 31 of the same files still re-index!

EastcoasterWestcoaster wrote:
All of the external HD's are set to "ignore permissions for this volume" so permissions shouldn't be an issue.
Wrong!
this could be the problem...
Permission must be active
Logic studio require license... so require permission
if the external drive as set to ignore permussion logic will never index a folder without ownreship
you need to pay for Apple Loops
they are not free
they are included in Logic Studio or you need to BUY JamPacks as individual DVD expansion...
*External disk with ignore permission are not allowed...*
*The only way is...*
*you need to create a Alias folder of all contents after installing Logic in the original location... than move that folder original on external drive.... and than you must delete de alias suffis on orther tha the folder must have the same permission as original.... It must be located in the same original location*

Can I relocate the Apple Loops & Index folder to another drive?

There's like 10GB of Apple Loops on my boot drive. I would LOVE to move all of that stuff off to a data drive. Is there a PLIST file or something that tells SoundtrackPro, etc where this treasure-trove of stuff is located - or is it hardwired to be in the Library folder on the boot drive?
G5 DP 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Hello,
Loops reside in a few files.
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops
~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops (if you installed any thiord party guys)
The index files are here:
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index
~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops Index
To move the loops to an external drive:
1. Move all of the loops from the Apple Loops folders above and move them to the external drive.
2. Delete all of the Index files.
3. Use the Loop Browser to reindex the loops from the new drive.
Be sure to drag the loops as individual folders (in other words if you store them in a folder called loops and then have groups of loops under that) if you don't, you will have one large group instead of several smaller ones. It makes it easier to find what you want.

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