Where did the stock audio samples go?

Logic Pro, all the way up through version 10.1, included a vast array of sound effects including ambient noises, foley recordings, crowd noises, various phrases being spoken, screams, and so on. I actually used these quite a lot, but they seem to have all disappeared, and there are no options to download them as part of the sound library manager.


Where did these samples originally come from, and is there any way of getting them back? I'm fine with having to pay for them as a separate purchase - but I really need them for a project I am working on right now!

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), iOS 11.1

Posted on Nov 1, 2017 7:24 PM

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Nov 2, 2017 2:45 AM in response to Eriksimon

I have everything under "legacy and compatibility" installed, including that option, but that didn't bring in the old content.


Also I am positive that at one point it came with LPX, because I had it available on my 2013 Mac Pro which only ever had a clean install of LPX, although I'm not sure which version I started with on that machine. Probably 10.1.

Nov 2, 2017 3:38 AM in response to fluffy

Oops, no it didn't. The iLife Sound Effects still come with Logic, but that's not the collection of sounds I was thinking of. There were hundreds of sound effects, including a bunch of screams (all named "-helm" as a cute reference to the Wilhelm Scream), ambient background noises, footfalls on different surfaces, car horns, and a whole bunch of other stuff.


Now I'm doubting that I used it as recently as I thought, however, as the last time I used it in editing a video was on a machine that DID have a Logic 9 upgrade path involved. So maybe I need to find an old copy of Logic 9 (sadly, I sold mine after I'd upgraded to X).

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Where did the stock audio samples go?

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