Mark Sealey

Q: Sounds silly - but, which Jam Packs have I installed?

Watching a Logic Pro 9 screencast today, I noticed that the order of software instruments in the presenter's Library was very different from mine - in respect, it seemed, of which Jam Packs were loaded. His actually listed 'Jam Pack 1', 'Jam Pack 2', 'Jam Pack 3' etc at the bottom of his list.

Although I did a complete install from the Pro/Studio DVDs (albeit an upgrade from Express), I don't have 'Symphonic Jam Pack' (or anything like it)… the one I'm most interested in.

Instead I have '01 Logic Instruments', '02 Acoustic Pianos', '03 Bass' etc down to '10 Orchestral', which leads to what I've always assumed was the Apple Symphony Jam Pack. After '14 Surround', I have what appears to be a duplicate GarageBand pair: 'Shared GarageBand Sett…', 'GarageBand' and only then two actual Jam Pack directories: 'Jam Pack Voices' and 'Jam Pack World Music'.

No errors. Nothing else wrong. Logic works perfectly!

Does that seem right?

*Does/do any of these correspond to the Apple Symphony Jam pack?*

How can I confirm that I have all my software instruments installed correctly: do they correspond to a directory structure in the Finder?

Can I tidy them, remove the duplicates, make more sense of the names?

Thanks!

Mac Pro, Xeon, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Clean machine... no haxies; no Microsoft etc

Posted on Jan 19, 2011 7:23 PM

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  • by Ministrel,Helpful

    Ministrel Ministrel Jan 26, 2011 12:24 AM in response to Mark Sealey
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    Jan 26, 2011 12:24 AM in response to Mark Sealey
    Looks like I seem to have the same problem.I ran all DVDs but I dont see anything that says 'Jam' leave alone packs!I wish there was a list if instruments & loops so we could make sure everything we are supposed to have is really installed!Let me know if someone answers your q,or if you have already found the answer,please do post it for the benefit of users like me.I have no clue of what I am supposed to have that comes with the installation.
    Thanks
  • by Mark Sealey,Solvedanswer

    Mark Sealey Mark Sealey Jan 26, 2011 7:24 AM in response to Ministrel
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    Jan 26, 2011 7:24 AM in response to Ministrel
    Ministrel,

    All I can find out is that if the installer runs to completion, the relevant sampler instruments do get distributed in the places intended for them.

    I agree, it's still odd that some apparently complete packages get names and others do not.

    The duplication of GarageBand Packs is also confusing.