Free Apple Loops, Compiled

I decided to compile all the links to free Apple Loops in a single post for convenience. Be sure to read the licenses for these loops, as they tell you what you're allowed to do with them. Also, if you found/made some nice free loops be sure to send me an email and I'll include them here. Anyway, go check out the free loops:

• The good folks of iZotope, who make the fabulous iDrum plugin, have put out a free expansion for their XRB  iDrum drumkit and  loops collection. The good news is that XRB Free does not only feature 16 drumkits, but also 74 beats that are also rendered as Apple Loops. So you don't even need iDrum (it is a very nice drum machine thoug, you might want to pick it up). Nice!

• "Perimeter Sound Arts, a newcomer to the Apple Loops market, and iCompositions are offering the largest free Apple Loops package in history, containing 264 Apple Loops!" You can find the loops here, but as always you will have to have an account for the iCompositions website to grab the loops.

• MacJams has been giving away free loops for five weeks. In total that's 120 mb of free loops! Get the loops from weeks 1-4 here, and week 5 here. Please be aware of the license for using these loops.

• Easy Sounds has two small Apple loop packs available on their free downloads page.


• "Tune-Up Mini Apple Loops collection, featuring OVER 100 original, high quality Apple loops available exclusively from MacJams.com."iCompositions website has four great loop collections on their site. A 50 Mb Drums on Demand set, the 200 MB AMG + iComposition collection, the Bandmates Free Loops (which includes 121 loops from instruments such as Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Drums and Percussion, Synths, and Electronic Drums), and the Power FX free loops are to be found in their free loops section


• Glaresoft's "resident mad breakbeat scientist, bit shift" put together a collection of free electro/breakbeat drum and synth loops from his forthcoming Apple Loops CD 'bitshift's bangin' beats'". You'll need to give them your Email adress, but they promise they won't spam you. It's worth it because the loops are breakalicious.
• Macidol has some links to free loops and samples.
• MacAudioGuy, the Author of the The MacAddict Guide to Making Music With GarageBand, has a 17 Mb Apple Loops package containing 18 loops on his site. It also looks like a pretty good book actually.
• Directions in Music has a very nice pack of drum and percussion loops played by Michael Blair (ex-Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams) and produce by Chris Bell. These are great for band/singer-songwriter oriented kind of stuff.

Comments

[James Walsh]

I was wondering if anyone tried Soundtrack and what they think of it? I'm using GB 2 and like it. I have downloaded most of the free loops. I don't understand yet how to convert other sound files like MP3s and wav files to Apple Loops for use in Garageband.Any answers? I know it must be fairly easy! Making loops is easy.Just plug in your guitar or keyboards and play and hit record button.Then save as a loop.

[JeroenR]

I never used Soundtrack personally. But about making your own loops here's how you do it with GB2: http://www.thegaragedoor.com/loops/make.html

You can import Wav and MP3 files in GB so that should be fairly easy.

[James Walsh]

Thank-you. I also downloaded a new loops and found even aif.asd files renamed AIF files will work- when dropped into iTunes first and then into GB2.

[Godbar Suchard]

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Apple Loops for Garageband

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[Godbar Suchard]

Garageband Loops - Download Apple
Loops

Silicon Beats is our second site to offer Garageband Loops for Garageband and Logic on OSX. We offer hundreds of free Drum loops in the Apple Loops format which you can freely download.

[MacPips]

Hi

MacPips offers free loops, no sign up is required, and we do more than drum loops. Download some free guitar, synth, piano and percussion loops now!

[Michael Domaradzki]

I use Soundtrack. I find Garageband an excellent tool to get started with, for initial arrangements etc. Recently though I was asked to help a mate with recording a Demo EP and it quickly became apparent that Garageband was too limited when working with non loop based material which we recorded. It took about a day to come to grips with it and I read the manual after hours to find shortcuts and techniques I could use to speed up the workflow. All in all it turned out to be an excellent multi tracker and we recorded mixed and mastered 8 songs within 7 days and when he left he had a fully designed CD with cover and even a printed disc face thanks to my Canon printer.

[Looper]

splurgo.com - Lots of free loops in garageband format, 200+ different sample & loop packs. Over 10,000 loops if you count them all :)

[Potsy Bisco]

Some of the sites I checked were not free at all!

[David Welch]

I have just started using garageband and would like to find some more of styles that are long, medium, and short. I am not even sure what they are called.
I am looking for country and ballad types.

Thanks
David Welch