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Now students have the entire GarageBand loop library (including the amazing Chillwave category), usably tagged and categorized, accessible in a much more loop friendly program. If you add all the subfolders to places, Live will spend a lot of time searching the disk instead of making sick beats. Put all your loops in one big folder for optimal performance. Notice the key tags at the end of the filenames. Add this folder to Ableton Live’s Places in the Browser – I observed that Live’s performance drops significantly if the subfolders are added separately to the browser.
#HOW TO WORK WITH APPLE LOOPS GARAGEBAND 10.1 SOFTWARE#
Have the software analyze and then write the key into the filenames.
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After another semester, I determined it was due to the weak loop selection in Live compared to GarageBand. Once we were off into my projects like the Radio Ad and sampling drum sounds from around the school they class felt exactly right, but there was a bit of magic missing from the first weeks. Really there were no big negatives with the switch, other than a slight intangible fun factor that was not present in the first few weeks.
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Since I was already using Ableton Live in my advanced course, I decided it might make more sense to have my beginners use that software instead. I would have to rework many of my lessons to work in the new version. 2013’s GarageBand 10, however, made me question the direction the software was taking. Since 2006 I had started my beginners on the software, which arguably ignited the entire movement of “older beginner” music composition courses. Around Christmas 2013 I was starting to worry about GarageBand.