Apple Loops

This video tutorial explains making your own Apple Loops using Garageband.

Green Apple Loops are the kind that include audio and midi data. Starting with Logic 7.1 (Express or Pro), you can make them in addition to the regular, audio-only blue kind. This video shows you how to do it.

via Home Audio Journal

BandmateLoops has introduced three new Sounds Like Drums Universal Virtual Instruments.

SLD DW Hip Hop RnB Kit, SLD Rogers Brush Kit and SLD Rogers Reggae Kit are designed to capture the subtleties and power of live drumming. Each kit utilizes a one-hundred percent analog recording process. Instrument formats include Mac and PC versions of Kontakt 2, Reason and others.

Pricing and Availability:

All three collections are available via electronic delivery

• SLD DW Hip Hop RnB Kit (UVI Download) is available for $69.95 USD
• SLD Rogers Brush Kit (UVI Download) is available for $49.95 USD
• SLD Rogers Reggae Kit (UVI Download) is available for $49.95 USD

Apple today introduced a new Jam Pack, Voices, the looks like it will be an interesting new addition to the Jam Pack lineup.

Description:

Jam Pack: Voices gives you over 1,500 Apple Loops featuring professional soloists and choirs in multiple genres and styles. It also provides more than 20 software instruments, including voices, choral ensembles, and amazing drum kits built on the human voice and body.

Over 1,500 Apple Loops give you an incredible range of world-class solo and choir performances. Over 20 software instruments include the following.

Drum and Percussion Instruments

Use unique drum kits incorporating the human voice and body to produce incredible beats and grooves, like the Human Beat Box, Human Bass & Lead, and Human Body Effects.

Choral Ensembles

Bring some of the world’s most beautiful voices onto your stage with breathtaking choral arrangements, including Boys Choirs, Classical and Chamber Ensembles, and Gregorian and Gospel Choirs.

Soloists

Give your song new melodic character with solo instruments including Eastern Solo, Synth Soprano Solo, Whistler, and Vocal Shouts in a variety of styles and genres.

Smart Loops has released Pro Drum Works Volume Two in Apple Loops format.

Description:

Now the complete, two-volume Pro Drum Works library of over 18,000 loops and samples is available in three major formats— ACID, REX2 and Apple Loops— making it compatible with all leading Mac and PC audio software, including Ableton Live, Adobe Audition, Apple GarageBand, Final Cut, Logic and Soundtrack Pro. Cakewalk Project5, SONAR and SONAR Home Studio, Digidesign Pro Tools, MOTU Digital Performer, Propellerhead Reason, ACID Music Studio, ACID Pro and Vegas, Steinberg Cubase, Nuendo and Sequel, and other programs.

This two-volume collection provides over 18,000 total loops and samples in straight-feel (Vol. 1) and shuffle-feel (Vol. 2) grooves, performed live on three separate drum kits (Acoustic, Trap, Thunder Kits). Read more…