Specifications

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The View buttons at the top left switch between three view types. The first button from
the left, featuring the three rectangles, switches to a standard Mac OS X column file
menu that is hierarchically separated into All, By Genres, By Instruments, By Moods, and
Favorites search criteria. The second button from the left (featuring the note icon)
switches to the “normal” Matrix view mode, showing musically-related categories. The
third button from the left (featuring the bell icon) switches to Sound Effects view,
offering effect-related category buttons such as Explosions, Foley, or People.
You can replace a displayed category via the shortcut menu that opens when you
Control-click (or right click) on any category button.You can choose from:
 Genre: This sub-menu offers musical categories, and for example includes Rock/Blues
and Electronic.
 Instruments: Bass, FX, Vocals, and the Textures and Jingles options are available,
amongst others.
 Descriptors: The options in this sub-menu cover the “mood” of Apple Loops, and
include Dark, Relaxed, Grooving, and others.
Basically, the Loop Browser displays all indexed loops in the system. When a high
number of Apple Loops is installed on your system, this might become rather complex
to administer. To keep things tidy, the Loop Browser offers advanced loop management
tools. The Jam Pack Management pull-down menu allows you to limit the display to
loops from a specific Jam Pack or other folder. Jam Packs are professionally-created
genre or instrument-specific Apple Loop collections, available from Apple.
Simply select the desired option from the Jam Pack Management menu. You can
choose between:
 Show All: Choose this default option to display all Apple Loops on your system. It is
extremely handy if you are unable to locate a loop that you know is installed and
indexed on your system, but do not know what Jam Pack it belongs to.
 My Loops: Choose to display all Apple Loops in the ~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops and
~/Library/Application Support/GarageBand folders (~ denotes the User name).
 GarageBand: Choose to display all Apple Loops installed with GarageBand.
 Jam Pack x: Choose to display all Apple Loops from a specific Jam Pack.
 Vendor x: Choose to display all Apple Loops from a specific third-party vendor.