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Producers that use our loops and samples are always asking ”How do I import Apple Loops in Garageband or Logic?”, so we put together this simple tutorial to show you how it’s done.

Importing and indexing our Apple loops into Garageband is really, very easy. In a nutshell you simply drag and drop the apple loops from a ‘Finder’ window directly into your loop browser while Garageband or Logic is open.

Here’s a Step by Step Guide.

Import Audio File To Garageband Mac

1 – Open a Finder window and navigate to the folder on your hard drive that contains the apple loops. Make sure that you have unzipped the apple loops from the zip file first.

Nov 16, 2017  But, even when I simply rename the project or if i delete one track, and then put the file into iTunes sharing for GB, when I attempt to access them on the iPad, I get the message 'Cannot Open Song-This song was created with GarageBand on Mac and cannot be opened. Jan 24, 2019  The easiest way to get a file from your iPad to your Mac is to use AirDrop. Alternatively, you could move the project file or a Dropbox folder, or however else you like to share files between machines. One note — a GarageBand project is really just a. A perfect example is importing GarageBand files into Logic. To do this, simply go to the File menu and select the Open option. As it reads and opens the file, Logic will automatically create the required number and type of tracks to mirror those used in the GarageBand song. Oct 16, 2019  Import iOS songs or Music Memos in GarageBand on Mac. 1) Click File from the menu bar and put your cursor over iCloud. 2) Select either Import GarageBand for iOS or Import Music Memos File in the pop-out menu. 3) Browse for your item, select it, and click Open for the iOS song or Import for the.

For older versions of Garageband, you need to make sure that you are viewing the actual .aiff files and not just the folders.

You cannot drag folders into the older Garageband loop browser, only files.

2 – Open Garageband, expand the loop browser if required. To open the loop browser, click the Loop Browser button (with the eye icon) in the control bar. Next go to the Finder window and select the apple loops (.aiff files) that you want to index and simply drag and drop them directly into the open loop browser.

3 – Depending on the amount of loops that you are importing, it could take some time, so go and make some coffee while you wait. The fast your machine ,the faster the loops will get indexed. If you’re good at keeping your disk defragmented you’ll also see a benefit in speed during massive file dumps.

4 – When the apple loops have finished indexing go to the Preferences > General tab and uncheck the “Filter for more relevant results” option as this will increase the number of apple loops that you’ll be able to see. You might want to try doing this before indexing the loops.

Top Tip 1

Garageband File Import

If you have purchased our Max Producer Pack or simply have lots of collections of apple loops it’s going to take a long time to navigate to all the sub folders that contain your files. The best thing to do in this instance is to dump all of your apple loops into one large folder and then use Finder to search only for .aiff files within that folder.

You can then select the search results and drag and drop them into the Garageband loop browser. It will take a long time to index the files but you’ll have saved a lot of time manually digging down to sub folders to find your apple loops.

Top Tip 2

GarageBand 1 installs its loop content in:
/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Apple Loops/

/omnisphere-2-black-friday.html. GarageBand 2 and later and Logic Pro/Express 7.1 install their loops in:
/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/

Or

~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/User Loops

Just be careful what you delete. Make sure you only delete files that failed to index and always have a backup of anything you intend to delete.

Top Tip 3

Garageband will not display loops in the loop browser if they are tagged with a different time signature to your Project. So, if your song is in 4/4 time don’t expect to see any 5/4 time loops in the loop browser. Only matching time signatures will display.

Recorded some tracks on Garageband on the Mac; and want to transfer the file to my iOS device.

You can only sync GarageBand projects from your mac to the iPad that originally have been created on your iPad. Creating a project on the iPad, then sending it to a mac, opening it on the Mac, doing some edits (but nothing that is not supported on the iPad), then upload it again to the iPad will work. But sendind a Mac-created GarageBand project to the iPad is not possible. The applications are just too different.

You can open your mp3 in GarageBand on the iPad, however. Sync it to the iPad using iTunes, so you see it in the Music.app on your iPad. All songs there can be accessed from the Loop Browser on the iPad, see: Import a song from the Music app

To sync projects between iPad and Mac use iTunes.

To send a song from the iPad to your mac as a project, share the song to iTunes > GarageBand.

Sync your iPad with your computer.

In iTunes, the exported song appears in the Documents list in the File Sharing area when GarageBand is selected.

To send the project back to the iPad, add it to garageBand's Documents list in iTunes.

Regards

Léonie

Mar 21, 2013 11:07 AM