It's 2016: Can we yet easily get Mainstage 3 sounds into Garageband?

It took a while but I think I have found them! Strangely, I was unable to see the whole library until I clicked on various tracks in the song. Leonie, thank you!

Now, because no good deed goes unpunished, here's another, related one:

My computer has not so much space left for sounds. Can I download more gigabytes of sounds from Mainstage 3 and simply store them for future use on an external drive? And if so, how do I then import a sound or set of sounds into Gb when the need arises?

OK, I have moved my iTunes to an external and will look into doing so for iMovie and possibly even photos. Need much room! I am hoping Garageband at some point has an easy solution to this. :-)

Cheers!

Dear Leonie and Others,

Sorry for being such a newbie.

I am back to the same problem as before. I have now downloaded additional sounds from Mainstage 3, and cannot locate them to use in Garageband 10.1.1.

- I have restarted.

- I have tried, for example, creating a new Software Instrument track in a Garageband project, then checked the library.

- I see *some* of the sounds as .exs files in the Library for Logic. But they do not show up in Garageband, or at least, not all of them (I can find some instruments that have the same names, e.g., under the library folder for "Legacy").

FOR EXAMPLES:

1. I see one acoustic guitar in the Logic folder called "Acoustic Harmonics" that does not how up in Gband.

2. I know I installed (from Mainstage 3) something called "Drum Kits/Stereo Drum Kits/Songwriter Kits." I don't see this in the Logic "Sampler Instruments" folder, even though it tell me it is installed.

Is it possible I am confusing instruents and loops? How do I know if what I am downloading should only show up in the Loops list?

(Finally, where do I get that nifty set of two tabs I see in one of your examples, Leonie, "Real Instrument" and "Master Track"? I do not see that in my library in Garageband 10.1.1. Was that A Gb 11 thing?)

Thanks!

Man, Leonie, are you sure you are just one person? You are fast!

I did restart.

I do not see the "Acoustic Harmonics" when I search.

I'm still trying things.

Here is what I see when I click "Legacy," in case this is helpful. Note I have only installed some of the libraries, though usually I try to download the whole thing.

Here's the particular folder where it appears. But you are right about that JamPack stuff not being installed, at least according to Mainstage. The only one that shows up is the Hawaiian Ukelele, I believe -- and it may be one from a different download set.

Before I got your last message, I reinstalled my whole Gb library and also downloaded the JamPacks Rhythm Section. I am not even sure I restarted, but now the instruments I thought I was missing are ALL showing up, though not in a very organized fashion (e.g., there are various acoustic guitars here and there in the library -- at the top level, in Legacy, in Logic...).

So as usual, flailing about with solutions brings one without knowing precisely what was wrong in the first place.

I will be downloading some more from MainStage over the coming days and will weigh in here if more problems come up. I will also keep an eye on this last solution you had if other sounds appear to be missing. Many thanks!