MainStage 2.2 on the Mac App Store includes all 6 Jam Packs

Great news! Thank you! 🙂

Do you need to do anything special to get all the loops and instruments in Garageband or do they just appear in Garageband when you install Mainstage?

No, you do not have to do anything special. Mainstage installs them in exactly the same libraries that GarageBand and Logic are using. But you will have to open Mainstage at least once so that it can download the and install the loops. The installer from the App Store does not install the loops, only the app. It will download nearly 2 GB of data, so that may take some time. And you will have to log off ond log on again, for GarageBand to notice the changed Library.

Fantastic, thank-you! A bit annoying as I just spent £25 buying the World Music jam-pack from Amazon only a couple of weeks ago. Never mind, will still be a bargain!

I just spent £25 buying the World Music jam-pack from Amazon only a couple of weeks ago

In the boxed version you have more documentation - Instruments Tips, very worth reading - and demo songs; so at least you got something for your money 🙂

Oh, I haven't found the demo songs!!!!??? Where would they be? Do they get installed or are they on the CD?

The demo songs get installed by the jam pack installer, it has been a long time since I did the install, but if I remember correctly, some were installed in Users ->Shared -> Garage Band Demo Songs, and some in the System Library:

/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/GarageBand Demo Songs/GarageBand Demo Songs/

Try to open the installer package by ctrl-clicking ands selecting "Show Package Contents".

Found them in the second path you provided - thanx! Happy New Year!!!! 🙂

Hello. I have Downloaded mainstage 2.2, opended it and closed it again. Then i opened Garageband and closed it. I tried to find the new loops and jampacks in the path described, but did not find them. To be honest, I do not know what was in Garageband initially, so I am not able to find out if some more is installed. In Users - Shared, there was nothing. Attached is a picture of what i found (or didnt find) What do I do to find out whether the loops/jampacks are installed or not. Thank you from Norway...Bibliotek means Library...

Sorry, the install location changed between GB versions, and I looked on an old mac: 😊 Look here:

/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/

Type the above path into the "Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder" text field and press enter.

Did MainStage show you a message that it was downloading additional content after launching MainStage? On my macs it took several hours till it had downloaded all the loops and instruments.

Thank you Leonie. Found them - about 1000 loops. And they took some hours to download, yes. Are these installed from original Garageband or are these new from Mainstage?

If you find that the loops are still missing, open MainStage again and select "MainStage->Download Additional Content" :

Browse the list of available downloads and check all uninstalled and incomplete downloads.

The list of available downloads should look similar to this:

Are these installed from original Garageband or are these new from Mainstage?

Hard to tell, you'll have to look at your Backup to be sure and to compare the dates. On my Mac the "Apple Loops for GarageBand" has a date from a time before I installed MainStage - I had those for a very long time, the "RemixTools" and "Voices" I did not have previously, and their date on thie Folder in the Loop Library is the date I installed MainStage.

Thank you again Leionie. A lot of files were not downloaded - working now - takes a lot of time....🙂