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Loop Browser

Tempo and Key matching are the most powerful feature of Apple Loops. Another feature, powerful in its own way, is

search ability

Tagging – Indexing - Browsing

How does that relate to the Loop Browser:

Tagging:

To create tags in an Apple Loop, you need the “Apple Loop Utility”, which lets you add the information (Genre, Instruments, Moods, etc) to the audio

file. Or you buy Apple Loops libraries, which are already tagged and ready to go.

Indexing - Browsing

Although Logic’s Project Manager has some powerful index and browse functionality build in, it won’t read the Apple Loop’s specific tags. You need a

specific indexing and browsing tool for the Apple Loops: This is the Loop Bowser, which is build into Logic

The Loop Browser suffers a little bit in the “Intuitive User Interface” department.

As I mentioned before, this is partly based on the bumpy ride how Apple Loops

were developed and integrated into the different applications (Soundtrack,

GarageBand, Logic)

Indexing:

There are three ways how you can index your Apple Loops:

• Install an Apple Loops Library (i,e, Jam Pack) and the indexing is taken

care of by the installer

• Drag your Apple Loops onto the Loop Browser window and it will index

them

• Create an Apple Loop from inside Logic which will index it

automatically

See the chapter “Apple Loops File Management” for details

Browsing:

The Loop Browser has basically two sections:

• Upper section: Search Pane

The various buttons, popup menus and entry boxes lets you create

your search criteria. You can define your search by

o Apple Loop name

o Apple Loop folder

o Genre

o Instrument

o Mood

o Scale

o Signature

o Favorites

• Lower Section: Result Pane

The List displays all the found Apple Loops with additional information about each loops and playback controls for the volume and

playback key. You can go through the list and preview the loops and drag them form the Loop Browser into the Arrange window or the

Audio window.

Loop Browser

Background Info

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Tagging:

Once you imported audio files into iTunes, you can enter additional information (called tags or metadata) for each song

like Artist, Album, Genre, etc. The metadata is added to the audio file, which means that once the information is added and you

move the audio file to a different machine, the information will show up on that computers iTunes.

•

Indexing

: The tagging of all your audio files is only the first step. ITunes wouldn’t be that powerful if it lets you only tag your audio

file and not search for it. You need a search tool, called a “Browser” which lets you search for specific information in those audio

files. If you tell iTunes to search for all audio files with the tag info “Classical”, and it starts to search for all audio files open them

one after another to look for a metatags entry “Classical”, then you could imagine that it would be very inefficient and would take

way too long. ITunes is using a little trick called “

Indexing”

. It creates an index file and every time you add an audio file into iTunes,

it stores the location of the audio file together with any metadata that file has inside. Every time you add new metatdata to a song in

iTunes, it also adds that information to the actual audio file AND updates the iTunes index file. The more songs you add to iTunes

and the more metadata you add to the songs the bigger the iTunes index file gets and the more powerful it gets also.

•

Browsing

: If you have 10,000 songs in iTunes and want to list only the “Classical” songs, iTunes just reads its index file and lists

only the song with the Genre “Classical”. You can browse very quickly through all your songs to find the ones that meet specific

search criteria.

The new Spotlight feature in Tiger works in a similar way. It indexes as much as possible and if you search for something, Spotlight

searches only its index file instead of scanning every single file on the hard drive(s) to come up with a fast result.

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