whenever people ask me how to add more sounds and loops to garageband i always recommend
their first port of call be mainstage apple's other music production program only costs about
30 quids but adds all of the instruments presets and loops that come with logic pro
into garageband if you'd rather not splash your cache but still want some new sounds to play with
there are a surprisingly large amount of places online where you can grab some new loops for free
here are three of my favorites just before we dive in make sure you stick around to the end
of the video where i'll show you how to add all of your new sounds into garageband's loop browser
first up we have freesound.org free sound is a collaborative database of creative
commons licensed sounds that creative commons part is important a creative commons license enables
the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work bear in mind that there are different kinds
of creative commons licenses but don't worry as freesound.org does a great job of letting
you know exactly what you can and can't do with a particular sample this deepest boom yet sample for
example that round randomly is licensed under the attribution license not sure what that means click
the link and it's all there for you in straight forward english and it's the same for every single
downloadable sample on the site really useful and can save you some serious headaches if you plan
to use one of these samples in a track you plan to release you can browse the site's front page
for the most recently released sounds or browse by tag location or roll the dice and check out a
random sound if you're after something specific searching by genre or instrument works well
too you can addition all of the clips from the results page which is really convenient as well
when you found a sound you like click through to its download page check what kind of creative
commons license it has this one had a cc01.0 license meaning it's in the public domain and then
hit download note that you'll need to register to access the free sounds on offer here registering
however is completely free and takes only a few minutes freesound.org is a fantastic resource
and one of the best places online to grab yourself some free sounds for your projects
next up is music radar an amazing music-flavored website in its own right
that also offers a huge number of free samples via its sample radar pub seventy thousand 375
free samples to be precise what's more every single one is completely royalty free so unlike
the loops on freesound.org you don't need to check the license for each sample all they ask
is that you don't redistribute the samples as they are i.e sell them on as your own the samples on
offer here come packaged together in bundles that have been listed alphabetically clicking through
to a specific bundles page gives you a bit of background about the samples as well as what file
type they are and other info like whether you'll need to extract them from a zip file and more
you can addition a selection of the sounds contained in the pack as well
if you like what you hear you can simply click the download link to grab the bundle
no signing required
sample radar is a massive library of incredible free sounds that you will love exploring
last but not least loop masters offer one gigabyte of high quality free samples when you register an
account with them and download their free program loot cloud if you've never heard of loop masters
they sell all manner of sample and loop packs for pretty much any genre you can think of loop cloud
is their sample management program that allows you to store browse and stream your samples as
well as giving you access to millions of other sounds if you want to throw some money at it
sign up for a free account at loopmasters.com and then download loot cloud when prompted
install it onto your machine and open the program by the way make sure you've clicked
the confirmation link in the email they'll sent you and then you can sign into loop cloud
from here it's just a case of following the on-screen prompts they even have a
garageband specific guide which is nice until the end and then clicking on the library tab
in the top left of the interface to access the one gigabyte of free loops that come with loop cloud
for more information on loot cloud check out the tutorial section on
their website there is a wealth of great information about the ins and outs of it
if you find yourself wanting to use it as more than just a way to grab some killer free sounds
all right here's how to get your shiny new sounds into garageband's loop browser this is more for
the loops you may have swiped from freesound.org or music tech as you have to manually add
those sounds into garageband yourself luckily it's really straight forward step one find your
downloaded sample or sample bundle if it's a zip file make sure you've extracted it first
step two open garageband's loop browser step 3 drag and drop your sample or folder
into garageband's loop browser and select move to loops folder when prompted
step 4 give your loops a minute to show up in the loop browser it can
take a while but if there's no sign of them click on re-index all loops
once garageband's done your new sounds will be in the browser and ready to use if you're in the
mood for more fantastic freebies for garageband give this video a click where i share some of my
favorites take care of yourself i'll see you next time bye for now