Samples from Computer Music Magazine CD

If anyone out there buys or is subscribed to this magazine and gets the monthly DVD with the thousands of samples, how does one import them so that they can be seen within the loops samples directoy in garaband?
I draggged and dropped them and they were automatically copied to library/audio but I cant see them in GB

thanks

imac intel core duo, Mac OS X (10.4.7), 20 inch

Posted on Aug 20, 2006 9:01 PM

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Aug 20, 2006 9:54 PM in response to HangTime

Actually, I did a manual check and indeed most of the files, if not all, where copied. The problem was that they did not appear as a new category. making them difficult to find in the GB browser.

Is there a way to make browser show loops and samples by 'date added?`maybe wish ful thinking.

Finally, with the CD came a group of midi drum breaks, which are .mid files. I cant seem to even import them into the timeline. Is this not possible?
thanks a lot hangtime

Aug 20, 2006 10:07 PM in response to djkhont

Your FAQ seems very complete I will go through it in
detail. Is it applicable to GB3?


For the most part, yes. GB3 has changed very little WRT music. The biggest change is that GB3 allows for 1999 bars instead of GB2's 999.

Meanwhile SoundTrack loop utility will solve the current WAV issue.

Is it possible to customize the GB loops and samples
browser categories? or are they fixed


For your new loops you can choose the categories with STLU

Aug 22, 2006 9:25 PM in response to djkhont

How Do i move this post to GB3?

Hangtime, hello again, and thanks for helping us all out. apple should give u some shares or pay you.

Now, back to my headache issue. I have all these free DVDs from this magazine, all with '4000 samples' and '5000 samples'., etc. and i want them ALL in GB.ç

I have copied all the folders containing the samples from the DVDs to my HD. When I drag and drop one of these folders into GB loop browser, it thinks, adds some, and includes a new category in the drop down header of the browser... Garageband, My Loops, and now the name of the folder. problem is, this folder now contains say, 560 loops. Not the 4000 on the actual folder.

Aside from the ones not being in the same time code?, as you mentioned not showing up, most are not being transfered.

You mentioned apple loops utility, which i have installed. So,

If I drag and drop this entire folder into ALU, will it create a lager loops folder for to be able to then drag into GB? By converting some of the non drgable directly into GB samples.

Makes sense? Hope so!

Aug 22, 2006 9:41 PM in response to djkhont

apple should give u some shares or pay you.


I'd be fine with some more shares (Heck a little more PPS would make me happy with what I have), but a few dollars (or even table scraps) would be nice.

Aside from the ones not being in the same time code?, as you mentioned
not showing up, most are not being transfered.


It sounds like some are tagged properly, and the rest aren't (Assuming the time sig is the same and "Keyword Browsing" is deselected in GB's prefs).

If I drag and drop this entire folder into ALU, will it create a lager loops folder for
to be able to then drag into GB? By converting some of the non drgable directly into GB samples.


It's a little more complicated than that if you want them to really be usable in the loop browser. STLU tags the samples with keywords to identify them in the Browser, so you would want to drop groups of loops, at best, into STLU. Then you would tag them as Guitar, Drum, Woodwind, etc, the key...

Then finally, yes, drop all the processed loops into the loop browser and they will appear under their proper instrument buttons.

Aug 22, 2006 10:09 PM in response to HangTime

Well, I tried with one folder and after lots of colorful circle thinking, now apple loop utility has dissapeared from my mac, so I guess it was too much for it and decided to quit on me (forever)

not sure its worth the hassle, Im better off creating my own loops? whats the point in releasing a song with loops from someone else anyway? right?

Finally, do you know if this is as troublesome with Logic? differences? similarities? thanks again
J

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