Location of the file Dream Dancer (instrument in GarageBand) and other instruments

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Location of the file Dream Dancer (instrument in GarageBand) and other instruments

I use an instrument from the GarageBand library in one of my songs. (Name like in the Title Dream Dancer) I know audio files, synthesized instruments, and every other Apple-related file is located under Library, for example in ApplicationSupport/GarageBand, Audio/Apple Loops.

I searched under Library with find (cmd Command) and the file explorer and did not find any file with this name. I only found with grep (cmd Command) in a file with location /Library/Receipts/com.apple.pkg.GarageBand_AppStore.bom a reference about something with the name (same goes for some other instruments in the Garageband Library like Dream Voice).

Does anybody know how to get to these sample files/audio files or know someone?

Thank you in advance.

Posted on Sep 11, 2021 2:24 AM

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Sep 11, 2021 12:17 PM in response to prog161

I have found a solution myself.

I analyzed GarageBand's Disk/File Activity with Instruments (performance-analyzer and testing tool from Apple). I found out the Dream Dancer file is located somewhere in the GarageBand's application folder structure (GarageBand.app) as a cst-file.

Dream Voice was different. It is located in /Library/Application Support/Logic/Alchemy Samples and some subfolders deeper. Split as aaz-files and wav-files with the tone pitch in the filename.

Some side files get opened too, like SDIR and pst files. Only as side information, they were not part of the main sounds I wanted to edit.

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