I have recently upgraded to Mavericks and therefore my Garageband has been upgraded as well.
Unfortunatley all my sound effects, when I click on them in the library, bring up this error message:
"EXS24 instrument "(filename).exs" not found."
can anyone help me recover all my hard work?
Cheers
Simon
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Simon, have you restored your previous instruments using the "Restore Purchase" command from the GarageBand menu in the main menu bar? See:
Expanding GarageBand for Mac (v10.0) content with an in-app purchase
If that does not bring your instruments back, post a few of the exact names of the "(filename).exs" files that are missing, so we can check, what the missing library is. Did you previously have the JamPacks installes, for example?
-- Léonie
Hi Léonie,
The error message is occuring on Sound effects/samples that I created in the previous garage band. ie, I recorded sounds into garage band (in this case various african instruments) trimmed them and then added them to the sound effects. I have used these samples for nearly 4 years of creating music and now cannot use what I have created. An example of what I named the sound would be 'Mbira right hand' and so on.
I did purchase a Jam pack on disk, but that might need a whole new thred by the sounds of it so wanted to concentrate on my custom sounds first.
Thanks for your time
Simon
Have you checked, if your samples are still installed in your user library in your Home Folder?
The instruments should be installed in the folder
~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Instruments/Sound Effects/Categories/Sound Effects/
and the samples in the folder
~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler/Sampler Files/Sound Effects/Categories/Sound Effects/
When I upgraded, my custom intruments remainded in that folder and are still working. For your custom instruments to continue working, you need to keep the GarageBand '11 installation, because the new GarageBand 10.0 does not have a customizable sound effect instrument. My custom Blues Harp still plays, because GarageBand 10.0 is using the GB '11 Sound Effect instrument.
You user library may still be hidden, as is the default:
Then open the Home folder and open the Library folder inside and navigate to
~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Sampler
Léonie
Hi Léonie,
Yes the files/samples are all present in those folders you posted, but alas my Garage Band '11 was lost in the upgrade to Mavericks. Had I known I may of tried to save it somehow before upgrading everything.
Any other suggestions?
Cheers
Simon
but alas my Garage Band '11 was lost in the upgrade to Mavericks.
The upgrade should not delete GarageBand '11. It will usually move GarageBand '11 to a subfolder "GarageBand 6.0.5" in your Applications folder. Have you looked there?
If it is still there, try if your GarageBand '11 songs still play in GarageBand '11.
Have you used the "Restore Purchase" from the GarageBand menu to ensure, that GB 10.0 can use all GB '11 instruments?
There was nothing to restore from purchases online.
I did find the previous installation of Garageband and can still use the samples I created in that version.
It now seems like the new garageband does not support creating sound effect instruments so therefore looks like I cannot type keyboard instruments into my project 😟
It now seems like the new garageband does not support creating sound effect instruments so therefore looks like I cannot type keyboard instruments into my project 😟
One of the sound Effect instruments is still working, and you can create your own effects in GB 10.0, the "Nature sounds". If you use that (from the "Legacy" section, you can create new samples.
And GB will use the old samples, if you install them in the system library instead of your Home folder.
Try to move your custom sampler files from your home folder library to the system library:
I described it in this post:
Re: Garage Band 10 legacy presets. Sound effects kit
Quit GarageBand before you move the files, and restart the mac after you moved them.
Thanks for your help with this.
Simon
You are welcome. Could you get it to work, Simon?
Yes, I managed to get an old set of sound effects in the older GB and put my own samples on the musical typing dialogue box. It would open in the new GB and start working once I had transfered the files over from Application Support to Sampler Instruments and Samples in the Music/Audio Music Apps Folder.
Relieved 🙂
Great! 😎
Garageband error: "EXS24 instrument "(filename).exs" not found."
