How to create midi loops

You can enter midi loops in different ways.

• Connect a midi keyboard and play the loop and record it. Or use the Mac's keyboard to play the virtual "Musical Typing" keyboard. Opem "Musical Typing" with ⌘K. Then use the Track Editor in score view or piano roll view to adjust the notes you recorded.
• In the Track editor for a Midi track you can directly enter notes in score view or piano roll view as well.
• You can drag midi files into a track, if you use a music editor to create a midi file.

The Piano Roll view has a grid, where you can click, where you want the note to appear and you can adjust the duration, also the articulation or expression, depending on the instrument. The articulation, attack, and similar are changed in the Midi Draw area.

For example: The Editor in Piano Roll view:

And in Score View:

And the Midi Draw area with the controller for the velocity, expression, sustain and similar:

One more thing, just in case your loop browser is nearly empty when you search for loops.

• Did you already install the complete sound library from "GarageBand > Sound Library > Download all available sounds"?
• And did you change the preferences to disable the filters for the loops? By default, GarageBand will only show the loops close to the current key and tempo of your current project. n the GarageBand Preferences disable the option "Loops > Keyword Browsing: Filter for more relevant results".

The current GarageBand version unfortunately does not come with many midi loops. Most of the midi loops in my GarageBand versions have been installed by the previous version o by the Jam packs. But once you create a midi region, that you like, you can save it to the Loop Browser and use it like any other loop. (File > Add region to Loop Library).