GarageBand User Guide for iPad
After you install GarageBand, additional content bundled into sound packs may be available to download in the Sound Library.
Sound packs can contain different types of content, including the following:
Sounds for the Keyboard and Alchemy synth
Drum kits for Drums, Smart Drums, and Beat Sequencer
Live Loops grids
New Touch Instruments
Sep 05, 2013 How to Import Apple Loops for Ipad Want to know how to import Apple Loops? We’ll give you the good news first. Yes you can import your own third party loops into Garageband for iPad. The bad news is that they will not show up in the Loop browser for easy previewing.
In the Sound Library, you can download and manage sound packs on your iPad. Each sound pack has an icon and a name that shows a brief description and preview button when you tap it.
Notifications on your iPad and numbered badges in GarageBand indicate that new or updated sound packs are available in the Sound Library. New sound packs have a badge labeled New, and sound packs already installed are labeled Downloaded.
Some sound packs may also be needed to perform certain tasks, such as opening a GarageBand song created on another device. In this instance, a message appears, asking if you want to download the required sound pack.
Open the Sound Library
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Do one of the following:
Tap the Browser button , swipe left or right, then tap Sound Library.
Tap a numbered badge in the Sound browser, Template browser, Loop Browser, or anywhere you can choose instrument sounds.
Download a sound pack
In the Sound Library, tap the sound pack you want to download.
Sound packs needed to open a song have a badge with an exclamation point.
Tap the Preview button to hear a sample of the sound pack.
Tap Get to download the sound pack.
Tap Done when you finish.
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Delete a sound pack
In the Sound Library, tap the sound pack you want to delete, then tap Delete.
Tap Done when you finish.
Manage sound packs
You can manage downloaded sound packs to free up storage space on your iPad. The total amount of space used for all installed sound packs is shown at the top of the list. The size of each individual sound pack is shown in the list. You can delete sound packs whether or not your iPad is connected to the Internet.
Open the Sound Library and tap Manage Packs in the upper-left corner.
Do either of the following:
Delete a sound pack: Tap Edit at the upper-right, tap the Delete button next to the sound pack you want to delete, then tap Delete. Alternatively, you can swipe left on the sound pack, then tap Delete.
Download a sound pack: Tap Get next to the sound pack you want to download.
Manage notifications
You can change the settings for notifications you receive when new sound packs are available. You can turn notifications on or off, choose how and where you want the notifications to appear, choose how you want the notifications grouped, and more.
Close GarageBand, then open the Settings app.
Tap Notifications, scroll down, then tap GarageBand under Notification Style.
Change the various settings for GarageBand notifications.
Silicon Beats offers all of our loops in the popular ‘Garageband Loops’ format – also known as ‘Apple Loops’. When you purchase any of our Drum Loop packs you get to download a ZIP file which contains your drum loops in these formats:
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- APPLE LOOPS – AIFF format for Garageband and Logic on Mac OSX and iOS.
- WAV Files – (Acidized). The industry standard for years. Almost All audio applications can handle WAV.
- REX2 – For use in Reason Refills, Cubase, Sonar/Project 5 and many more DAW applications.
We had so many users asking for us to supply Garageband loops in the ‘Apple Loops’ format that we simply had to listen. After some intense weeks of locating hit points and specifying meta data for the Garageband Loops in our library, we finally completed the conversion and are now proud to offer this new format.
Mac users will pay no extra charge for Garageband Loops, everybody pays one price and gets all formats.
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What are Apple Loops?
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Apple loops are specially formatted AIFF files which work in Garageband and Logic for Mac OSX. Apple loops contain unique meta data which tells Garageband or Logic certain things about the file, such as where the transient hit points are, what type of instrument is being played, the tempo, time signature and other information.
How do I buy these Garageband Loops?
Simply find the style of drum loop category that you need in the ‘Product Categories’ menu on each page and browse our catalog. You can listen to a previews of the drum loop packs that we offer and even download demo Garageband Loops to test them out before deciding to buy.
Free Garageband Loops
Within these pages you will find hundreds of free demo drum loops. These can be easily located by using the drum loop menu to your right. Simply click on the Drum Loop Genre that you are interested in and you will be presented with a list of drum loop download packs for that genre.
By clicking on the ‘Download Demo Loops’ button for each you’ll be able to test out the files in your beats.