HOW TO INSTALL APPLE LOOPS IN GARAGEBAND

How To Install Loops Into Garageband.

I felt this really necessary to do. It’s one of the most asked questions so I figured I would just make a quick tutorial on how to install Loops into Garageband.

First locate the little Eye Icon as shown below to open your Garageband loop browser.

Now Click the Eye Icon so it turns Blue as shown below

You should now see your loop browser

Now Navigate to your Folder that contains your new loops and grab that folder

Drop it into your Loop Browser (Yep the entire folder right in there)

Now right above your instrument Buttons there is a little bar and it normally starts out by saying Garageband and has 2 small little black arrows one facing up and one facing down. Click that to open up a window as shown below

Now Click your all Drums button to view drums

And to view other instruments just hit your reset button

Now that you got your loops in GarageBand Just drag your file from the loop browser to the window above.

Other tips. When you cant find installed loops in Garageband it’s most likely is because your BPM is locked to reflect the BPM of that project. It is a default setting in Garageband. To turn this off so you can see every loop go into Garageband preferences, Choose loops, then un-check the box that say’s Filter for more relevant results. Now look in your loop browser in Garageband and make sure your LCD (the blues display in Garageband) display is on measures, now check your loop browser. You should now see every loop no matter what BPM’s they are or key they are in. Let us know that his helped.

HOW TO CHANGE THE KEY AND TEMPO IN SOUNDTRACK PRO

Producers keep mentioning that they are having a hard time adjusting to the new interface of Soundtrack Pro 3 by Apple.
It used to be so easy to change the Tempo (BPM) and the Key. There was a nice dock interface very similar to Garageband that clearly showed your Key signatures and what Tempo your project was. If you wanted to change it, you would just click on them to adjust.

With the latest release of Soundtrack Pro 3 there are two ways of adjusting your Tempo and Key signatures.

1. Go into the preference panel under file at the top and adjust your project. ( This would make it a default every time you wanted to start a new project, it would always be in the same Key and same Tempo). No good (at least not for us).

We at Soundtrackloops.com like to hear what our loops sound like in all the different Keys after Acidized and Apple Looping them to assure the best quality and to make sure you, the end user, are receiving properly formatted loop files from us. We also like the ability to adjust our Key and Tempo when creating a demo, song, or soundtrack to a iMovie or YouTube video, and also hear the results instantaneously.

When creating a demo we want to play around with our Tempos and adjust the Key for ourselves while the multi-loop created song is playing.

So we set out to make a tutorial as easy and a painless as possible with images so you can understand quickly and get to making your next score at what ever Tempo and Key you want it to be at. Read the contents below to find out how you can do this on your own

Step one – Open Soundtrack Pro 3.

Step two – Locate your Window drop down in your tool bar at the very top.

Step three – Scroll down to your Tabs menu.

Step four – Move your cursor to the right so the Tabs menu opens up and you see Project Properties, highlight and click to enable.

Step five – Your Project Properties should now be in plain sight.

Step six – Now that you can see your project properties. You will first see your projects title, description, artist, copyright, genre and other information which you can edit. Now use the scroll bar to scroll to the bottom to find your current projects Tempo and Key signature it is in. ( I found default was the Key signature of G and Tempo at 120)

Step seven – Now adjust your Tempo to what ever BMP (beats per minute) you would like.

Step eight – You will now want to highlight your Key signature to adjust what Key you will want you song to sound like. ( a menu should show once clicked)

Step nine – One thing we like is the ability to put your projects menu where it is easily accessible. All you need to do is grab the Project Tab and drag to any of your viewing layout panes.

We like ours by our loop browser (as shown below)

There you have it. Easy as a bass beat pie.. feel free to comment or share any of your tutorials and or tips

NEW RELEASE PROGRESSIVE SOUNDS by SOUNDTRACK LOOPS

NEW RELEASE – PROGRESSIVE SOUNDS – For the iPhone's Looptastic Pro, Beatmaker and Garageband

Again Soundtrack Loops put out a first of it’s kind. Looptastic Pro ready loop library for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPhone Video

– Alex Hall is a welcomed addition to the Soundtrack Loops production team. He is a former founding member of Marscruiser, the producers of “Elementalelectrofunk” feat. George Clinton. Current projects include “Future Living” on Longhall Recording, “Take Pride” on Polytechnic Recordings, and “Nuns on Waterskis” on Polytechnic Recordings.

For producing Progressive Dance music. Sound folders include Leads, Pads, Fx, Bass, Percussion, and Drum kit’s. Recorded at 130 BPM and in the key family of “D”. 100 Loops – 24 bit 44.1kHz Stereo.

Available in Apple loops .aiff, Acid Loops .wav, Recycle / RMX .rx2, Beatmaker .bmkz and Looptastic Pro .ogg