My Imac isn't displaying all the real instrument effects

I just fixed it myself. I renamed the folder from "Guitar Track" to "Guitars", and now the Guitars category and all of the effects show up in GarageBand.

You will need both folders "Guitar Track" and "Guitars".

The "Guitar Track" folder has the settings for the stomp boxes and effects used by the special "Electric Guitar" tracks, and the "Guitar" folder has the settings for an electric guitar recorded to a regular real instrument track.

My question now are as follows:

A) What happened that this was a problem in the first place?

B) Where did really good effects like "Modern Rock" and others go? Were they dropped and replaced with other effects?

A) What happened that this was a problem in the first place?

No idea - how did you migrate/ install your current version?

B) Where did really good effects like "Modern Rock" and others go? Were they dropped and replaced with other effects?

On my system I have not seen them since 2009, when the special electric guitar tracks have been introduced in GarageBand. On my older mac is still a folder "Guitars (Previous Version)", with all the old effects:

You will need both folders "Guitar Track" and "Guitars".

The "Guitar Track" folder has the settings for the stomp boxes and effects used by the special "Electric Guitar" tracks, and the "Guitar" folder has the settings for an electric guitar recorded to a regular real instrument track.

Here's the thing; among all my filters for "Bass", "Drums", etc, "Guitar Track" was its own folder with no "Guitars" folder in sight. The only 37 files in the "Guitar Track" folder were the 37 filter effects that should actually be in the "Guitars" folder, had it existed. This was all nested within the "Real" folder in the path I quoted above. I do have a "Basic Track" folder, but it shows up as one of the 9 effects categories in GarageBand.

No idea - how did you migrate/ install your current version?

I had done all available upgrades as they came from Apple. My previous main computer (among some others) was a 1.25ghz iMac G4 with Leopard, until I moved over to my late 2008 Alu. Uni. MacBook with Snow Leopard. I am now on the latest Mountain Lion with the latest iLife and iWork suites.

I started fresh on the MacBook with Snow Leopard 10.6.3, and moved over my Documents, Music, and other personal files as I saw fit. Time Machine kept everything safe, but as iLife and iWork suites got updated, and as new versions of OS X rolled out, I upgraded along with them, behind by a couple of months for major releases pending testing.

I am now on the latest version of Mountain Lion 10.8.4 - and until today, I just thought Apple removed the guitar effects, as I rarely used GarageBand; primarily because I kept the iMac G4 as my media machine, and I did all my guitar work on that, with the old effects.

So, somewhere in the past 4 years, something went wrong, and it was nothing I ever did. I never played with the GarageBand folder until today. Interesting to say the least.

My MacBook only has 37 files in "Guitar Track", yet my iMac has 58 files... Changing the MacBook folder name fixes GarageBand, and adds the files. The many extra files, I assume, should stay in the other "Guitar Track" folder. Somehow, my MacBook has fewer files than the iMac with the same installation.

Under the "Real" folder, how many nested instrument effects folders should there be? I have 9; including "Guitar Track". I don't have "Guitars" or "Guitars (Previous Version)". What should be in those three Guitar folders??? Could someone compile a list of the files in those folders, or provide screenshots?

Plus, can I just transfer my old effects from an older iMac G4 to the newer Macs?

Plus, can I just transfer my old effects from an older iMac G4 to the newer Macs?

I copied the old instruments (the folder "Guitars (Previous Version)") from my old MBP to the new one.

Now these old Guitar instruments are showing as a second set of Guitars in the "Real Instruments" tab.

Right now the upload of screenshots does not seem to be working. sorry.

Both folders "Guitars" and "Guitars (Previous version)" showing in the Real Instuments tab: The same loops (from the previous versions folder) are working well, when i drag them to the Guitars folder. Then they will show under Guitars in the Real Instruments list - I tried it with Indie Rock and Ultra Clean.

Great, that helps a ton. My last questions are:

A) How many and, more importantly, what files should be in the "Guitar Track" folder?

B) How many should be in the "Guitars" folder? (Mine has 37 files currently.) I think I have an idea of what needs to be where, but a count would help.

I cannot be really sure any longer about the original counts, since I have all Jam Packs installed and migrated the folders from mac to mac for many years.

The "Guitars" folder: 15 instruments.

Barroom Lead.cst

Bright Country.cst

Eighties Pop.cst

Funky Rhythm.cst

Grunge.cst

Heavy Blues.cst

Indie Rock.cst

Liverpool Clean.cst

Metal.cst

Scorching Solo.cst

Seventies Rhythm.cst

Summer Sounds.cst

Surf.cst

Texas Blues.cst

Ultra Clean.cst

Guitar Track folder: 58 instruments

Bell Bottom Rock.cst

Big Hair Metal.cst

Bluesbreaker.cst

Brit Pop.cst

Burning Blues.cst

Choral Stack.cst

Chorus Shimmer.cst

Chunky Chorus.cst

Classic Blues.cst

Classic Crunch.cst

Clean Combo.cst

Cool Jazz Combo.cst

Country Twang.cst

Crunchy Blues.cst

Crystal Arpeggios.cst

Dark Vibrato.cst

Dream Pop.cst

Dreamy Texture.cst

Dublin Delay.cst

Eighties Alternative.cst

Fat Sixties Fuzz.cst

Fat Stack.cst

Fifties Rock & Roll.cst

Glam Rock.cst

Heavy Riffing.cst

Honky Tonk.cst

Indie Fuzz.cst

Industrial Overdrive.cst

Jazz Club.cst

Liverpool Bright.cst

Lowdown Blues.cst

Memphis Clean.cst

Metal Wah.cst

Modern UK.cst

Old School Funk.cst

Ominous Crunch.cst

Power Punk.cst

Punk Rock.cst

Roadhouse Rock.cst

Rockabilly.cst

Royal Riffing.cst

Seattle Sound.cst

Seventies Metal.cst

Sixties Basic Blues.cst

Smooth Soul.cst

Sparkling Clean.cst

Spy Movie.cst

Stadium Solo.cst

Strobe Light.cst

Sunshine Drive.cst

Super Flange.cst

Surf.cst

Talking Filter.cst

Underground Wah.cst

Vibrato Blues.cst

West End Wah.cst

Windmill Chords.cst

Woodstock Fuzz.cst

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Léonie

Mine on this display when I select tracks the whole guitar amp , pedals disappears and also when I have a system track with the software drums that disappears as well and I cannot select the kits etc etc...what am I doing wrong lol