Aug 13, 2011. Today I got a new Thunderbolt Mac mini, which means that OS X Lion was preinstalled on it. My task was to get Lion Server installed and up and running ASAP. In the process I could't stop thinking about how minimalistic and to a point, environmental, the packaging was. Damn, the box was smaller than.

Estimated read time is 3 minutes I discuss how to transfer the loops from Mainstage 3 into Garageband. Garageband came preloaded free when I purchased my Mac. Remember that each Jam Pack would have set you back $99 (US) each, retail price when they were first released. Now you get them all by paying around $30 US for all six Jam Packs. More info found. Also note that even though the Jam Packs come bundled with Mainstage 3, you don’t need to actively use Mainstage 3 to extract the Jam Packs. I got the complete set of Apple Jam Packs (six in total) by buying MainStage 3 from the Mac App store.

The six Jam Packs were: Jam Pack 1 (also known as GarageBand Jam Pack, discontinued in January 2006) but bundled with MainStage 3. Jam Pack Remix Tools (Jam Pack 2) (the one I wanted) – adds more than 2,000 additional loops plus other goodies.

Simply super, love it! Jam Pack Rhythm Section (Jam Pack 3) (another good one, great for musicians who write songs and need backup vocals on demand) – adds an additional 2,000 loops etc. Jam Pack Symphony Orchestra Jam Pack Word Music Jam Pack Voices Once I downloaded Mainstage, I then opened it and clicked on Mainstage 3 in the top menu and clicked on “Download Additional Content”. This is how you get the Jam Packs. The estimated download time was around five hours but I can’t be sure how long it took because I went to bed during the download. My Mac went into sleep mode and everything still got downloaded.

Select which ones you want and click install. I selected “Select All Uninstalled” and clicked on “Install”. Biology Campbell Pdf 9th Planet. Some loops pre-exist in Garageband so this will be greyed out. Some will also be incomplete (these will be completed on download). The greyed out ones is to prevent the download of duplicates. Once your selection is installed, Status under Additional Content Packages will change to “Installed”. Open GarageBand and create a project.

From the top menu, choose GarageBand >Preferences, click Loops, and uncheck the “Filter for more relevant results” checkbox. To add your Jam Pack loops into Garageband, Click on spotlight / magnifying glass in top menu on the right side of the Mac menu bar, type Jam Packs. The folders will be shown. Drag the folder of the Jam Pack you downloaded earlier into the loop browser (where the rest of the basic Garageband loops are listed to the right side of the project). This will re-index the Garageband loops and there you have it.

Click on “Loops” and you will find the your Jam Packs in the drop down. Once everything is re-indexed, you should have all the following in your loop browser. I add here that only the Jam Packs you drag over into the loop browser will show there. I wanted all the loops that came with MainStage 3 so I had all the following in my loop browser: 01 Hip Hop 02 Electro House 03 Dubstep 04 Modern RnB 05 Tech House 06 Deep House 07 Chillwave Apple Loops for GarageBand (GarageBand in my case) iLife Sound Effects Jam Pack 1 Jam Pack Remix Tools Jam Pack Rhythm Section Jam Pack Symphony Orchestra Jam Pack Voices Jam Pack World Music There is also a folder called “My Loops” in the loop browser. You can save your own loops in there. Remember to get your Jam Packs from MainStage into GarageBand, use spotlight or click on the magnifying glass icon on the top right corner of your Mac, search for the name of the Jam Pack you want to bring over (they are all saved into separate folders), it will show in spotlight results, drag that folder into your loop browser. Baase Computer Algorithms Pdf Reader. One thing I would also like to clarify here (because I was initially confused myself) is that depending on which loop package you select in GarageBand browser loop (for example Jam Pack 1), you will have certain loops greyed out.

This happens regardless of the loop packages you choose. This is because you will only get shown all the loops available for any particular loop package at any one time. I did however click on each loop package and everything was in there. Hi Dana, I will try my best to help you. Note that I have also removed your last name from your comment in case you would rather it remained private.

Firstly, where did you download your copy of MainStage 3 from? A download from Apple is the only guarantee you receive what you paid for. I note there are certain dubious websites claiming to have copies for sale. Such copies may not have the extra content you’re after (I’m not saying this is the case here). Also, from the Apple website, it states: “After you install MainStage on your computer, additional content, including software instruments, Drum Kit Designer drum kits, loops, and compatibility content, may be available. You can view the available content not installed on your computer and select content to download any time you are working using the Additional Content window.” What this means is that if you ALREADY have those “additional content” installed on you Mac, the “Download Additional Content” will be greyed out. The Jam Packs from memory is over 30Gb.

Is it possible your Mac doesn’t have enough space for the required download? These are the only things I can think of at the moment. If I find out anymore information regarding your question, I will post it here. Hope you sort it out and feel free to come back here if you have other questions. If you’d rather take it offline, let me know. Hi Tim, Sounds like you’re an actual drummer!

I do play the Djembe, does that count? 🙂 Note that I’m on Mac Os Mountain Lion and Garageband Version 6.0.5 so I don’t have the latest Garageband updates. This means I don’t have the Drummer update in GarageBand.

In answer to your question, each Jam Pack has an ” All Drums” section. And yes, there are many excellent drum loops in MainStage 3 (extra loops download). Each “Drum” loop is different for each different Jam Pack. My suggestion is that you download all the extra loops when prompted via MainStage.

If you should decide to select certain Jam Packs, I believe from memory that you are able to do this in MainStage when prompted as well. Remember, you will not get duplicate loops if you already have the same loops in your GarageBand loop library. The steps you need to follow is in my original post. Just in case I may have misunderstood your question, if all you’ve already updated GarageBand to the latest version and all you wish to do is update the Drummer starter update, Apple says this: “”GarageBand for Mac (v10.0) is available free on every new Mac and as a free download on the Mac App Store for all OS X Mavericks users. It comes with the full set of features and a great set of starter content including 50 sounds, 500 loops, 1 DRUMMER, and 2 basic lessons for guitar and piano. With a one-time in-app purchase of $4.99 (USD), you can expand this content to 200 sounds, 2,000 loops, 15 DRUMMERS, and 40 basic lessons for guitar and piano.

You also gain the ability to purchase additional Artist Lessons. You can find this option by choosing Download More Sounds from the GarageBand menu. If you previously purchased this content, select Restore Purchase to install the content.” If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. Have a nice day. Hi, I’m trying to use Jam Packs but many of the files are not showing up. I’m running macOS Sierra and Garageband 10.1.6.

I have several Jam Pack folders at the location: Library >Audio >Apple Loops >Apple. If I look, for example, in Jam Pack Symphony Orchestra folder in the Finder I can see 39 files in there.

When I look in the loops section of GB, I can see there is a drop-down list, one of which is Symphony Orchestra, but it only has 13 loops in there. Even if I drag the Jam Pack Symphony Orchestra folder from the hard drive onto the GB loops folder and reindex, the missing loops are not copied. This happens to all the Jam Pack on my hard drive (Remix, Rhythm, etc). Many thanks •.

Hi Gordon, Sorry for my late reply. I have been away. Firstly I should state that I am on MacOs version 10.8.5 (Mountain lion) and GarageBand 11, Version 6.0.5 (428.5). I checked two things on my Mac. First I did a search for Loops through Spotlight and found a folder titled “Apple Loops for GarageBand”.

This folder has 1,198 items @ 242MB. I believe this folder is home to the original loops installed with GarageBand before I bought MainStage for those extra loops. I did another search for Jam Packs and found several folders which I list below: 1. Jam Pack Voices, 309.9MB, 1,701 items. Jam Pack World Music, 634.3MB, 3,235 items. Jam Pack Symphony Orchestra, 690MB, 2,203 items. Jam Pack Rhythm Section, 410MB, 2,621 items.

Jam Pack Remix Tools, 447MB, 2,230 items. Jam Pack 1, 468MB, 2,046 items. The above were added after I bought MainStage.

I can confirm that with each available Jam Pack Loops (not greyed out) inside my loop library, I do have those Jam Packs in the six Jam Packs folders listed above available. You say the path you’re looking at is “Library >Audio >Apple Loops >Apple”. I don’t see such a path when I do a search.

In general, MacOs does not save the loops where you’re looking. Did you buy and download MainStage to get the extra loops?

I did a quick Google search regarding /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/ and while it is used if you’re Logic or MainStage, it appears to have something to do with the Sound Effects? I’m not actually using either but merely utilised MainStage to acquire the extra loops. Liz Comments are closed.

This is the method I used and it works without issue. From the user Seisend, over at the Apple Support forums- '1. Download this for free: 2. Copy original 'Logic' Folder located in /Volumes/'DRIVE NAME'/Library/Application Support/ on the desired external drive and location.This is the location where all your additional content is beeing installed to. You can delete the original folder or rename it and use it as a backup. Use the symbolic link tool to create a symbolic link from the 'Logic' file which has been copied to your external drive.

Place the link (which looks like an alias) to its previous destination (/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/) and rename it to 'Logic'. After this you will be able to download additional content.

Be aware if you want to download 30 GB of content and your SSD has just 20GB free space, it will show you the same error message because it stores the download file still on your SSD until installation is done. The solution for this is to download everything part by part.' I just finished downloading the content, after reading these couple of ways to do this can we summarize?

1) where is the extra content on my Main drive? 2) how do i move it to my external HD?

And then link it to logic? Sorry, Logic noob here and the 2 ways posted here i am not following to well when trying them thanksYou will find all the content of Logic stored in /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Logic To move the Logic content to another hard drive you first 1 - Install this 2 - Then copy the Logic folder you found in /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Logic to your preferred hard drive. 3 - Delete or just rename the original Logic folder in /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Logic to something like 'Logic Backup' to be safe. 4 - Right click on the Logic file which you copied to your preferred hard drive then place the new created link (should say 'Logic symlink') to its previous destination (/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/) and rename it to just 'Logic'.

Hope its more clear now Noodlez. Let me get this straight. There are actually two folders in the system library that's going to be holding samples that I know of. 1) Application Support >Logic.

This holds all the EXS and Ultrabeat instruments and samples, plus the Drummer and its samples, an a lot of other stuff that doesn't have associated samples. Settings, templates, controls, strips, patches, key commands, etc that can stay right where they are. So theoretically the only stuff I'd want to remove from that 'Logic' folder and 'symbolize' over to my ext samples hdd, are just the EXS, Ultrabeat and Drummer sample folders (Hang on, Drummer samples are in the EXS sample folder) The instruments presets themselves can stay right where they are.

2) Library >Audio This is where the Apple Loops folder resides. That is the only folder that is holding samples in there. That can go to the ext hdd as well. So I would then symbolically link copied exs and ultrabeat sample folders over to the external and then just the Apple Loops folder. Am I all correct here? Or I can just copy the folders over and leave their aliases back in place on the system I guess. This is curious though.

I already had all my jam packs installed on the external from Logic 9. However, even though it wasn't supposed to as far as I told the LX content installer, it installed the jampacks anyway onto my system >library >audio Now I just checked and see that they have identical content, HOWEVER, the newly installed jam pack files are roughly twice the file size as the ones on the external. They're both CAF, same length and sound.

Got this reply from an apple Support staff as I want to upgrade the hard to a SSD soon and was wondering about what to do about reloading the software. I understand that you are wondering that when you buy Logic Pro X, if you will need to repurchase it when you move to a system with a SSD. I can certainly appreciate your concern as Logic is not a cheap application. My name is Jeremy and I would be more than happy to help you out with this today. I have looked into this for you, and I found that you can redownload apps you have purchased from the Mac App Store without incurring additional charges as long as the application is still available on the Mac App Store. To learn how to redownload apps on the Mac App Store, please refer to the steps in this article: Mac App Store: Backing up your app purchases If you lose your purchases, you can restore the items from your backups. This article explains how to back up your library: iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive If you're using a Mac, you can back up your library automatically with Time Machine.

This article will show you how: Mac 101: Time Machine If you have any further questions or concerns regarding this issue, please let me know and I would be more than happy to address them for you. Thank you very much for being part of the iTunes Store family, and I hope you have a great day Sincerely, Jeremy iTunes Store Customer Support. You will find all the content of Logic stored in /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Logic 1 - Install this 2 - Then copy the Logic folder you found in /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Logic to your preferred hard drive. 3 - Delete or just rename the original Logic folder in /Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/Logic to something like 'Logic Backup' to be safe. 4 - Right click on the Logic file which you copied to your preferred hard drive then place the new created link (should say 'Logic symlink') to its previous destination (/Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/) and rename it to just 'Logic'. NoodlezI have followed all these steps and everything seems to work properly and without problems Thank you for all these excellent explanations. I just found this on the Apple Support Communities Forum, haven't tried it yet myself as I'm still in the middle of downloading all my Logic content but hopefully it will work.

Using the Finders ' Go to Folder' menu option, enter ' /private/var/folders/' (without the quotes). A look in the various folders will reveal folder called ' com.apple.MusicApps'. Inside, there's a folder called ' audiocontentdownload.apple.com'.

Finally, inside here is a folder called ' lp10_ms3_content_2013'. The downloaded content packages are temporarily stored here. Once downloading of a package is complete, Logic Pro X will prompt for your Admin password before completing the installation process. Before entering the password, copy the content installer packages to another location. The installation can then be carried out (and the original packages will be automatically deleted by the install process).

If anyone finds this helpful please let me know Many thanks Noodlez Has no one even tried this method, I'm curious to know if it works. I've got some free time on my hands, and will be doing a clean install of OS X because I don't want to do the incremental beta versions that are seeded anymore. This will also give me an opportunity to install Logic clean, but would like to do it the right way. The Symlinker method isn't exactly straight forward and one mistake can make the whole process a waste of time. It would sure be nice if Apple simply had it built in to ask where you'd like to install these things. I had trouble with the symlinker app. It's much better to create symbolic links from the command line.

A symbolic Link is like an 'alias' or a 'shortcut' except that it works at a deeper level in the OS, so it totally fools applications into thinking it's a folder. There are GarageBand and Logic folders in /Library/Application Support on your boot drive that you will want be redirected to your desired target drive. You do this by creating symbolic links that redirect any read or write by apps to more spacious locations on what we'll call your target drive. Logic will thus go to your target drive to use loops etc, and when it downloads loops etc from Apple it will store them there. A symbolic link can make your target drive look like part of your boot drive.

In my case I have a big spacious drive called BIG where I have a top level folder called /Library, where I've built an Application Support folder into which I've copied the Logic and the GarageBand folders from the boot drive's /Library/Application Support folder. So let's look at how we make this location on BIG replace the one on the overly crowded boot drive. Start by finding these folders in /Library/Application Support on your boot drive.

After copying them to your target drive, rename the original folders on the boot drive to GarageBand.NOT and Logic.NOT. This is temporary. That way if something goes wrong you can delete any symlinks and name the folder back by removing the.NOT at the end of the name, and it will be like before. Later we'll delete these extras. Then the symlinks will be built on the boot drive using these two command lines (you will be asked your password). Note that the syntax lists the 'target' of the symlink followed by its location, i.e. The 'source'.

Sudo ln -s '/Volumes/BIG/Library/Application Support/Logic” “/Library/Application Support/Logic' sudo ln -s '/Volumes/BIG/Library/Application Support/GarageBand” “/Library/Application Support/GarageBand' In /Library/Application Support you will now see the 2 symlinks. They look like folders with a little arrow, and if you navigate through them with the finder you will land in the content on the BIG drive. So far so good?

In /Library/Audio you will find an Apple Loops folder. Make an Apple Loops folder in your target drive's /Library/Audio folder and copy the Apple Loops folder there. Then repeat the symlinking by using the following command: sudo ln -s '/Volumes/BIG/Library/Audio/Apple Loops” “/Library/Audio/Apple Loops” If you are tight on space, and why else would you do this, delete the original folders on the boot drive after backing them up and checking that everything works. Once you set up the symbolic links, additional downloads will go to the target drive automatically. You can pick when to set up the symlinks, and when to delete the files off the boot drive.

I hope this helps. It works just fine. If it makes no sense, either I am being unclear, and please tell me, or you need to read up on Unix file concepts a little before you try it. I agree that Apple really should make installations more flexible. The reason they don't is because it's much more work to write programs that don't fall apart if data locations change, and because they assume most mac users are not very technical.

So they should just spend more money on bigger drives and stuff;-). I have a quick question as I am trying to set all this up. I have one external drive that I use to record my sessions into and another that holds my virtual instruments/samples. Should I have my virtual instruments and samples on two seperate drives or is it better to keep the samples with the instruments. I am trying to find the best way to utilize my cpu in Logic Pro X as it keeps overloading. I am about to delete everything off my iMac and start fresh and will be using FireWire 800 external drives.

What are these impulse responses I keeping hearing about. I had trouble with the symlinker app. It's much better to create symbolic links from the command line. A symbolic Link is like an 'alias' or a 'shortcut' except that it works at a deeper level in the OS, so it totally fools applications into thinking it's a folder. There are GarageBand and Logic folders in /Library/Application Support on your boot drive that you will want be redirected to your desired target drive. You do this by creating symbolic links that redirect any read or write by apps to more spacious locations on what we'll call your target drive. Logic will thus go to your target drive to use loops etc, and when it downloads loops etc from Apple it will store them there.

A symbolic link can make your target drive look like part of your boot drive. In my case I have a big spacious drive called BIG where I have a top level folder called /Library, where I've built an Application Support folder into which I've copied the Logic and the GarageBand folders from the boot drive's /Library/Application Support folder. So let's look at how we make this location on BIG replace the one on the overly crowded boot drive. Start by finding these folders in /Library/Application Support on your boot drive. After copying them to your target drive, rename the original folders on the boot drive to GarageBand.NOT and Logic.NOT. This is temporary.

That way if something goes wrong you can delete any symlinks and name the folder back by removing the.NOT at the end of the name, and it will be like before. Later we'll delete these extras. Then the symlinks will be built on the boot drive using these two command lines (you will be asked your password). Note that the syntax lists the 'target' of the symlink followed by its location, i.e. The 'source'.

Sudo ln -s '/Volumes/BIG/Library/Application Support/Logic” “/Library/Application Support/Logic' sudo ln -s '/Volumes/BIG/Library/Application Support/GarageBand” “/Library/Application Support/GarageBand' In /Library/Application Support you will now see the 2 symlinks. They look like folders with a little arrow, and if you navigate through them with the finder you will land in the content on the BIG drive. So far so good? In /Library/Audio you will find an Apple Loops folder. Make an Apple Loops folder in your target drive's /Library/Audio folder and copy the Apple Loops folder there. Then repeat the symlinking by using the following command: sudo ln -s '/Volumes/BIG/Library/Audio/Apple Loops” “/Library/Audio/Apple Loops” If you are tight on space, and why else would you do this, delete the original folders on the boot drive after backing them up and checking that everything works. Once you set up the symbolic links, additional downloads will go to the target drive automatically.

You can pick when to set up the symlinks, and when to delete the files off the boot drive. I hope this helps. It works just fine. If it makes no sense, either I am being unclear, and please tell me, or you need to read up on Unix file concepts a little before you try it.

I agree that Apple really should make installations more flexible. The reason they don't is because it's much more work to write programs that don't fall apart if data locations change, and because they assume most mac users are not very technical.

So they should just spend more money on bigger drives and stuff;-)Thanks for posting this. It looks like it should be very helpful.

I used the command lines (I'm on 10.10.5 if that makes a difference), substituting the name of my target drive for your 'BIG', but the symlinks aren't showing up in my Library/Application Support folder. But, when I try to run the command line again, it says 'file exists', so something happened. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Myles EDIT: I found the symlinks in my /Users folder. However, when I double-click, it says the original source can't be found. Any help would be great.

Thanks, Myles. Since I've been asked this question numerous of times I wrote a little post about it with some background on why you want to take this route. Hi Eric - Thanks for the very clear instructions on your blog, they're really helpful.

I'm still having problems, due, I'm sure, to an error on my part, but I don't know enough about what I'm doing to figure it out. I followed your step-by-step to create the symlink, which shows up in the top level of my Home directory, not in Application Support.

If I move the symlink to the Application Support folder, and double-click on the symlink, it gives this message: 'The operation can't be completed because the original item for 'Logic' can't be found.' And if I open Logic, it starts to download the basic package again. Any thoughts?

Thanks, Myles EDIT: One thing that I'm uncertain about is this - if I drag the Application Support folder to the Terminal after dragging the Logic folder on the external drive into terminal, there's a space between 'Logic' (the name of the folder on the external drive) and /Library/Application Support/. If I press enter, I get a 'permission denied' message. If I delete the space, I get the symlink as described above, in the top level of my home folder, and it doesn't work. EDIT 2: I get the 'permission denied' message using the SymLinker app as well. Does this have to do with System Integrity restrictions in Yosemite? Hi Eric - Thanks for the very clear instructions on your blog, they're really helpful.

I'm still having problems, due, I'm sure, to an error on my part, but I don't know enough about what I'm doing to figure it out. I followed your step-by-step to create the symlink, which shows up in the top level of my Home directory, not in Application Support. If I move the symlink to the Application Support folder, and double-click on the symlink, it gives this message: 'The operation can't be completed because the original item for 'Logic' can't be found.' And if I open Logic, it starts to download the basic package again.

Any thoughts? Thanks, Myles EDIT: One thing that I'm uncertain about is this - if I drag the Application Support folder to the Terminal after dragging the Logic folder on the external drive into terminal, there's a space between 'Logic' (the name of the folder on the external drive) and /Library/Application Support/. If I press enter, I get a 'permission denied' message. If I delete the space, I get the symlink as described above, in the top level of my home folder, and it doesn't work.

EDIT 2: I get the 'permission denied' message using the SymLinker app as well. Does this have to do with System Integrity restrictions in Yosemite? Its because he forgot the one critical step to creating ANYTHING in the /Library (or any protected system) folder from the command line.

You need to use the sudo command to give you root access to write to them. This command 'ln -s /Volumes/[NAME OF YOUR DISK]/Logic Content/Logic /Library/Application Support/Logic' is never going to work unless you use 'sudo ln -s /Volumes/[NAME OF YOUR DISK]/Logic Content/Logic /Library/Application Support/Logic' and then type your admin password afterwards. It shouldn't show up in your Home directory unless you use '~/Library', you should just get a permission denied message instead. Symlinks don't work in OS X's GUI like they do from the command line. You can't copy them around without properly setting permissions for them.

The subsystem might be Unix based, so you would think it would be that easy, but there is a lot of Apple on top of it that keeps people that don't know what they're doing from screwing things up which you can do very easily from the terminal.