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Indexing Apple Loops - File Management
There are two ways how you can import Apple Loops into your Logic song:
1) Drag and Drop
You have the Apple Loops on one of your mounted volumes (internal, external, network) and you drag the file direct into Logic, either into the
Arrange Window or the Audio Window. This works if you know your Apple Loop files, but what if you have hundreds or thousands of Apple
Loops. You need a Apple Loop file management tool: The Loop Browser, build directly into Logic
2) Loop Browser
The previous chapter showed powerful search tools in the Loop Browser, but before you can search for Apple Loops, you have to tell the Loop
Browser what files you have and where they are located. This process is called “
Indexing Bikes and Apple Loops
To understand the process of indexing, lets look at the following example
You (the Loop Browser) work in a warehouse and your job is to keep track of your companies products, bicycles (Apple Loops)
Inhouse Storage
• A truck comes in and delivers a container named “Bike A (folder “Bike A”) with 500 bicycles (Apple Loops)
• You take all the bicycles and put them into a container which you label “Bike A” (folder: Bike A)
• You put the container into the Bike Building of your warehouse (folder “Apple Loops”)
• Now you take a note pad (index file) and catalog all those bicycles: what color, what size, model number, etc.
• You put the note pad into a Bike Drawer (folder: Apple Loops Index)
• Over the next couple of weeks, you receive more container shipments and you do the same routine.
• Now in your Bike Building (folder : Apple Loops), you have 10 containers (10 folders containing Apple Loops Libraries) and
your Bike Drawer (folder: Apple Loops Index) has ten notepads (index files)
• When your boss calls and want to check on a big red mountain bike (R&B drum loop), you don’t have to go to the Bike
building and search in all the 10 containers – NO – You open the Bikes drawer (folder: Apple Loops Index) and scan through
the 10 notepads (Index files) and find the location of that particular bike.
Remote Storage:
• One day a tuck with a new container comes in and you realize that you are running out of space in your warehouse.
• You take a new note pad (index file) and still catalog all the bicycles and you put that notepad again into the Bike Drawer
(folder (Apple Loops Index)
• You take a new mini container (alias folder) label it the same way as if it would be a big container and put a note inside with
the location of the actual container with the bikes (folder containing the Apple Loops)
• You tell the truck driver to take the container back where it came from keep it there at its original location
Single Bike delivery:
• One day a the FedEx guy shows up and delivers a single bike. What I’m gonna to do with that? Waste a whole container for
that?
• You decide to take a regular container, put it also in the Bike Building and label it “single delivery” (folder: SingleFiles). From
now on you put all the single bike deliveries together in that container.
• You also take a new notepad (index file) and catalog all the single bikes that you put in that special container.
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