Installing Garageband Jam Packs On Lion Song. 3/20/2017 0 Comments Garage. Band, Logic: Where loops get installed. Band 2 or later and Logic Pro/Express 7. If you have one or more Jam Packs installed, each package stores its loop content in a different location as well. Now I'm thinking about purchasing some jam packs only for the. GarageBand's Jam Pack add-on comes with a lot of great additional Software Instruments, Effects and Loops. One of the new instruments, the 12 String Chords Guitar, emulates a person strumming guitar chords (3 or more simultaneous notes) instead of playing an individual note.

Which JamPack loops are already in Soundtrack? Which of SoundTrack's loops can be deleted when you want as many different loops as possible?

In the hint there are 3 links to text files. These text files are lists of the duplicate files. It is a complete list of file names. Each pair consists of one file from GarageBand and one file from Soundtrack and they are identical to each other. You can delete either without losing any unique loops. My script automates this process by deleting the Soundtrack half of the unique loops.

What abou the other direction. I have my Soundtrack loops on a dedicated media volume, GarageBand Loops on my System volume, I'd like to remove loops from the GarageBand folder and rely on the loops on the media drive instead

I am running both Garageband and Soundtrack. Could you give us a few more detail on combining the two libraries in the first place.. creating one unified library from scratch.

Xeo, this is an amazing piece of work. Thanks for posting! I'm having a problem getting GB to recognize the new Soundtrack files, however.
(I have GB, GB Jam Pack and Soundtrack.)
I saw your detail about selecting 'Edgy Modern Rock Bass 2', which should cause GB to re-index - but I'm not able to find any sound files that cause this to happen. I can't even locate 'Edgy Modern Rock Bass 2' in GB!
Then I realized something else: There are a number of sound files that don't appear in the GB sound browser that ARE in the '/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Apple Loops' directory. (This is completely regardless of adding the Soundtrack files.)
For example, if I search for 'Edgy' in GB sound browser, my first results are 'Edgy Rock Bass 05' and 'Edgy Rock Bass 08' - but there are files in that directory, beginning with '01', that should appear.
At first I assumed that the file time signature may have restricted them out, but nope, they're all 4/4.
Any idea what would prevent these files from appearing?

Check what key they're in; unless you've changed it in your GarageBand preferences, GB only shows you loops within a certain range of the key you've chosen.

That nailed it. I saw that multiple keys appeared in the results, so I assumed that ALL keys were appearing. I didn't notice that there was a preference to only display results within a limited range of keys. Unchecking this preference made all of 'em available.
Thanks!

Yep, you're right. This is unbelievable, hm.. useless.
No, worse, it seems a bit 'Microsoft' to me.
Just like automaticly making capitals of al first letters in .. Word (barhf)

Yes, why is it dat edgy modern rock bass 02 and others.. don't show up in Garageband!!!

Great work! I have been mystified at why these loops would be distributed twice with different names..very annoying. I was resigned to the process of manually weeding them out, until you came along. Thanks!
A couple of caveats for users, though. When you open existing projects, you may get 'file not found' errors for tracks you've created (if the script removes a duplicate that you happened to use). You'll have to locate the corresponding loop names. Xeo's lists of which loops are which comes in VERY handy here. If you edited the loop, or otherwise messed with it within your song, you may lose some of those changes. Just be careful.
Also, Garageband acted very funny after I used the script, but after a restart, it was fine again.
All in all though, great job!!!

i need to delete my duplicate loops as described above BUT i dont understand how to use the terminal!
could anyone explain step by step how to do it?
thanks a lot
ron

whenever i try to run the script i get
./gb-deletedupes.sh: line 72: [: =: unary operator expected
Action cancelled. No changes have been made.
any clue how to fix this??

to add loops just drag them onto the loop browser. garageband will then update its library accordingly. you dont have to move them either!

I don't understand how to execute the command. I know you can't just type -g. What do I put in the next line? HELP? Also, I tried to just drag all the loops from the Soundtrack folder into the Garage Band loop browser. It seems to import the loops fine, but it wants to COPY them all. I don't have the room for that. What do I do so Garage Band just indexes the loops without copying them all into the Garage Band loops folder?
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Shaun

I'm not that concerned that there are duplicate loops between GB and ST. I mean, I'd rather there weren't, but so be it. But is nobody else having the problem that when they try to add the soundtrack loops to the Garage Band browser, the MacOS wants to COPY all the files, rather than just index them? Is there some way around this?
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Shaun

Every couple of months I get a new e-mail in my box from someone who is stuck somewhere along the way. Here is my stock reply to these people and in almost every case, it has been enough to get it working for them. I hope this can help others in the future.
1) Download the script to your home directory
2) Unzip it (with Stuffit Expander)
3) Open Terminal
4) Make sure the script is executable by running 'chmod 755 gb-deletedupes.sh'
5) Type './gb-deletedupes.sh' and hit enter. If it is set up correctly, it will show you the various options and what they mean. If it is not working, you will get an error like 'file not found' or 'command not found' or something similar.
6) Now type './gb-deletedupes.sh -b ' but don't hit return, and note the space at the end, and the space between the command and the -b. I used -b in this example, but use whatever option is appropriate. The choices are -b -g and -j.
7) In the Finder, open the folder that contains the Soundtrack Loops folder, so if Soundtrack Loops is in your home directory, open your home directory, or if soundtrack loops is in /Library/Application Support/whatever then open that folder.
8) Drag the Soundtrack Loops folder onto Terminal, it will fill in the rest of the command for you.
9) Now just hit return in terminal and it will execute. If everything looks OK, it will prompt you to say yes or no to continue, and just type Y (that is a capital Y.. it matters) then return to continue. It should delete the files at that point.
Also, I have been considering updating the script and lists with the new Jam Packs but have not gotten around to doing it yet.

The above script has a hard-coded list of duplicates.
But if you want to find other duplicates (e.g. in newly released packs) you might be interested in the Perl script I wrote. It is actually a very general script for finding duplicates of any type of file (based on comparing the MD5 digests that are computed from the content of the files).
You can get this Perl script (which I call 'findDupeFiles') from the following thread on the macosxhints forums (post #7 of that thread):
http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=264200

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