dncollins
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Q: GarageBand Help with Loops and Plug-Ins

Greetings,

Boy, I wish i knew what the answer was to this:

I received the new GarageBand (10.1.2) in the OS expression of all our new Macs. To get a complete feel for the app, I also purchased MainStage 3 and, like most all instructions indicate, used that app to download (and in effect, re-claim) all of the JamPack Loops that one could get. Boy, it took a while, but in the end I had all available sounds.

Or so i thought... launching GarageBand, to my chagrin, it indicated that there was yet still more content available for download (some 9 GB worth). This was done - after re-indexing the loop library, I thought finally I was good to go.

 

Not so...

 

Every loop, clearly indicated in the loop library AND clearly previewed by clicking on it, that I attempt to drag into the session comes back with an error message, which goes like this:

EXS24 instrument "African Kit.exs" not found.

or

EXS instrument "Peruvian Pipes.exs" not found. (replace the instrument name with whatever, but the end result is the same). Doing a search in the library (the left side of the screen) produces no results.

 

Any idea of what to do? The fellow at Apple tech support said that this was a new one on him. Did i download 50 GB of nothing? Does anyone know (definitively) where all the loops/instruments/samples that MainStage and GB downloaded are, and is there any way of successfully tagging them so that GB recognizes them?

 

Thank you for your consideration; this supposedly easy app is certainly more perplexing than it needs to be :-\

 

Regards,

D Collins

Posted on Oct 18, 2016 10:35 AM

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie Oct 19, 2016 7:43 PM in response to dncollins
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    Oct 19, 2016 7:43 PM in response to dncollins

    The African Kit you mentioned, is working in my GarageBand 10.1.2 library, and it is installed in the folder

     

    /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Track Settings/Software/Drum Kits/African Kit.cst

     

    Check your /Library folder what is installed for you in /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library

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    dncollins dncollins Oct 19, 2016 7:47 PM in response to léonie
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    Oct 19, 2016 7:47 PM in response to léonie

    Thank you for the response, Leonie.

    I recently discovered how much smaller in size the problem station's folder was compared to my office unit,

    off by some 43GB of sounds an d stuff. My guess is a bunch of the Logic sample engines did not make it - I am going to copy the office folder wholesale into the offending unit to see if that helps.

    Many thanks,

    DLC