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Q: Converted apple loops won't add to logic.

I think others have had the same problem but I just spent hours converting wavs to apple loops and in the end, more than half of them won't even show up in logic. The ones that do show up in the logic loop pane are not "looping" either even though I selected the "looping" tag in ALU. I tried rebuilding the DB with no luck and adding the folder again with no luck. I can't believe managing loops is this hard in logic. Apple needs to take a not from ableton on loop management for sure.

Does anyone know how to get the apple loops utility to actually work right?
Thanks all!

Mac, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Sep 14, 2009 12:51 AM

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Q: Converted apple loops won't add to logic.

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  • by Sed_P,

    Sed_P Sed_P Sep 26, 2009 3:29 PM in response to rschmitt
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    Sep 26, 2009 3:29 PM in response to rschmitt
    It's not really a solution, more of a workaround, but I've had some luck doing this;

    Since ALU just changes the data on the file, and rebuilding the database seems to only affect original, included Apple Loops (which is horse crap, btw) I decided to change their info with ALU, then import them like any other file into a Logic project.

    When I do it that way, after I have added them to the bin, they are searchable in the loops browser. It seems that converting them to Apple Loops using the standalone ALU does not necessarily make them searchable by Logic's internal loop browser. But, if you add them to project's bin manually or create them in the arrange window (which also adds them to the bin) then they become searchable.

    I'm not sure why, it just has worked for me. It's still really inconvenient for converting large loop libraries for searching and sequencing in Logic though. No improvement on that from L8 to L9 either.