Logic Pro 12: Missing Legacy/Ancient sounds

For those who desperately need it, download Logic Pro 11.2.2 (restored using Time Machine) here: https://we.tl/t-dgqvK1B29j

not sure if others have noticed by now—on a hunch I loaded up Garage Band, and it shows all those old Legacy sounds! I’m in Logic 12.2 or whatever the new version is, and so mad the library got reorganized.

I gave up trying so many things and just deleted everything related to Logic and did a complete clean install.

Now Horns and Strings work properly as does everything else - so far.

Whew!

Thanks for trying to help.

Hey FilipOfficial,

::: STILL MISSING :::

• Acoustic Guitar Harmonics

• Piano and String Ensemble

• Pizzicato Ensemble

• Church Door Organ

• Space Keys

• Rock Harpsichord

• Almost Harpsichord

Sorry for the delay. =) I don't know if these are what you're looking for. But, have you tried creating a new Software Instrument track and simply doing a search in the Library? That's where I found these:

Cheers!

D

SOME INSTRUMENTS/SOUNDS ARE BACK IN THE NEW LOGIC PRO 12.2 UPDATE!

Unfortunately, it seems like the old legacy GarageBand and Jam Packs still aren’t back…

Here’s a video about it: https://youtu.be/lEEyYdWzVkQ

However, I have now spent MANY hours of my life making it so my system won’t update to Logic Pro 12, so I’m still running Logic Pro 11.2.2, since that has all of the instruments, patches, and 34299 MIDI/Audio Loops. Therefore, can anyone with a clean install of Logic Pro 12.2 confirm if all of the following instruments (patches) are back?:

• Acoustic Guitar Harmonics

• Piano and String Ensemble

• Pizzicato Ensemble

• Church Door Organ

• Space Keys

• Neverending Riser

• Antarctic Sun

• Rock Harpsichord

• Almost Harpsichord

• Old Robot Factory

• Massive Bells

…as well as: how many Loops do you have in total?

I do have Big Electric Lead as a patch in GarageBand, but it's not originally listed in LP12. The file itself shows it's from 2003. I saved it in a GB project, then opened the GB project in LP. Now I have it in LP12. It's basically a Sampler instrument with a few plugins.

You might try recreating the sound by the Sampler settings posted below:

You can start off with the Clean Electric Guitar and make some minor tweaks;

SYNTH

• Turn OFF Filter 1
• Set Polyphony from 16 to 32

MODULATORS

ENV 1 AMP

• Change your Release from 46ms to 27ms
• Change your Velocity from 28dB to 30.5dB

Then for Plugins;

Compressor

Threshold: 23.5

Ratio: 1.6:1

Make Up: 4.0

Knee: 0.7

Attack: 10

Release: 48

Guitar Amp Pro (found in Legacy--hold down Option while clicking on the plugin insert to access this)

This is hard to read so here are the Control View settings:

Chorus

Channel EQ

Bus 1 Tape Delay Send set at -18

Bus 2 Platinum Verb Send set at -37

I hope this helps you man. I know how it is when you have faves in your quiver. =)

As far as the size of the Sound Library, that's over my head. Where is it that you're getting your info that it's that size?

No worries! My apologies if I misunderstood you. I thought you meant that you no longer have Big Electric Lead anywhere, neither in LP or GB. =) If you do have it in GB, simply do as I mentioned before:

1. Start a project in GB and add an instrument track with patch you're missing
2. Save and Close the project and open the GB project in LP.

Everything should transfer over. Sometimes it will ask you to save it since you changed the instrument. Then the patch will be listed under User Patches in your Library.

As to "why"? In the US, we call this "shrinkflation". Instead of offering us more and better features for a higher price, companies strip away from what you're already paying for, only to offer it as a "package" or "premium" later for an extra fee. IMHO, I simply see it as the death knell of innovation and a new basis of every capitalistic economy going forward; the itemization of services on top of the fee to have access to those services. Most software companies and streaming services are already doing that. Expect more in the future.

As for the size of your Sound Library, I have absolutely no idea without digging through your computer. Do you have a backup of the previous Sound Library?

Control-Click the Logic Pro Library.bundle icon.

From the corresponding pop-up menu, select "Show Package Contents"

Hi guys,

Same problem here too: all my previous v10/11 Jam Packs and Legacy sounds are missing in the new v12 library.

Strangely, when I open an older v11 project, the JP and Legacy sounds are still there but none can be found in the actual v12 library. I have tried deleting LP12 and all its v12 packs, re-downloading everything and updating every single possible sound library that v12 has to offer and still nothing! (Interestingly, I am offered only a grand total of 43.42GB to download for all packs, including JPs and Legacy ones).

Looking in my /Library/Application Support/Logic folder (70GB large), my Sampler Instruments folder is only 97.8MB large so that can't be the source of the JP and Legacy sounds. My Alchemy Samples and EXS Factory Samples are 16GB & 53GB large respectively but I wouldn't know what to do with them to make them "active".

Very keen to help troubleshoot with you guys until we get this sorted out, as long as it takes!

When you copied the "channel strip folder" from Library/Application Support/Logic • to the .bundle file( after right clicking it to show its content and paste in to it) , do you mean that you copied/pasted the 5 "channel strip folder" sub folders (Bus, Instruments,Master,Output,Tack) or only the Instruments subfolder ?

I just dragged the entire Channel Strip Settings folder while holding down the keys Shift+Option (Alt). This copied the entire folder including all subfolders.

Hope this helps.

Looking back as to how much time I spent, I found several sites suggesting that upgrade killed the app but a fresh, clean install makes everything work. Like you, I have way too many 3rd party apps such as Native Instruments, MusikHack, iZotope, Air, Akai, MPC, etc.

I really didn't want to have to go reinstall everything due to having to go through the licensing bureaucracy which is a huge pain as I had to before. I'm thinking of backing up the .bundle file and Time Machine tonight, grabbing all that I can from the 3rd parties, and doing a fresh install later in the coming weeks. I just want to complete this album first and deal with the missing on a per project basis for now.

Did anyone out there, who didn't have these issues, did you get all the GB loops and sounds, including the GB MIDI loops?