Silicon Beats offers all of our loops in the popular ‘Garageband Loops’ format – also known as ‘Apple Loops’. When you purchase any of our Drum Loop packs you get to download a ZIP file which contains your drum loops in these formats:

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APPLE LOOPS – AIFF format for Garageband and Logic on Mac OSX and iOS.
WAV Files – (Acidized). The industry standard for years. Almost All audio applications can handle WAV.
REX2 – For use in Reason Refills, Cubase, Sonar/Project 5 and many more DAW applications.

We had so many users asking for us to supply Garageband loops in the ‘Apple Loops’ format that we simply had to listen. After some intense weeks of locating hit points and specifying meta data for the Garageband Loops in our library, we finally completed the conversion and are now proud to offer this new format.

Mac users will pay no extra charge for Garageband Loops, everybody pays one price and gets all formats.

What are Apple Loops?

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Apple loops are specially formatted AIFF files which work in Garageband and Logic for Mac OSX. Apple loops contain unique meta data which tells Garageband or Logic certain things about the file, such as where the transient hit points are, what type of instrument is being played, the tempo, time signature and other information.

How do I buy these Garageband Loops?

Simply find the style of drum loop category that you need in the ‘Product Categories’ menu on each page and browse our catalog. You can listen to a previews of the drum loop packs that we offer and even download demo Garageband Loops to test them out before deciding to buy.

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Within these pages you will find hundreds of free demo drum loops. These can be easily located by using the drum loop menu to your right. Simply click on the Drum Loop Genre that you are interested in and you will be presented with a list of drum loop download packs for that genre.

By clicking on the ‘Download Demo Loops’ button for each you’ll be able to test out the files in your beats.

Here is a list of links to take you directly to our product pages where you’ll see a ‘Login For Free Demo Loops’ button.

Mega Packs – These are bundled loop packs at a discounted price.

There are twelve reasons why Garageband is great for making beats, including:

1) It’s Free (assuming you own an apple product)
2) You Can Install Plug-Ins
3) You Can Sample
4) There are a ton of pre-made Apple Loops
5) The Enable Flex Function
6) The Time Quantizer
7) The MIDI Instruments
8) You Can Use Automation
9) Panning Capability
10) It provides a solid foundation for learning Logic Pro X
11) It has the Drummer Track
12) and also has Pitch Correction/Auto-Tune

Many of the most commonly used production techniques can be employed using Garageband’s interface. Truthfully, there aren’t that many limitations to the software.

In this article, we’re going to explore the aforementioned 12 reasons why I think Garageband is such a great DAW to use for beginner beat-makers, and why you should download it sooner rather than later.

1) It’s Free (assuming you own an apple product)

The fact that Garageband is free surely carries some significance when deciding on what digital audio workstation to use. Assuming that the user has access to an Apple product, whether it’s an iPhone or a Macbook Pro, Garageband is free to download from the App Store.

It’s not going to cost you anything to at least try it out.

Even in the case that you don’t like it, there’s no harm done because it didn’t end up costing you anything anyway.

Most other DAWs, especially the premium versions, cost at least a little bit of money, including the most popular options, FL Studio, Logic Pro X, Cubase, Pro Tools, and Ableton.

If you’re new to beat-making, Garageband is a great first step to make, because it has many of the same features of the other most popular DAWs, despite the fact it won’t cost you any money at all.

2) You Can Install Plug-Ins

Contrary to what a lot of people on the internet might say about the software, you can actually install plug-ins in Garageband. It uses the Audio Units file-type, and a lot of plug-ins are compatible with it.

If you don’t know how to install plug-ins, click the link here to read an in-depth tutorial on how to install plug-ins in Garageband. Also, the very same article runs through a massive list of some of the most popular ones.

Plug-ins are a great way to gain access to features, functions, and instruments, that otherwise don’t come pre-installed in the DAW.

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For instance, you can install entirely new drum kits, boutique 808s, drum machines, acoustic guitars, saxophones, and so on and so forth.

Sites like VST4Free or AudioPluginsFor Free have a ton of different quality options to try out.

If I were you, I would recommend checking out my article on how to install plug-ins, which was in the link above, in addition to my article on 6 Awesome Plug-ins for Garageband.

Furthermore, there are plug-ins out there that can replace some of the less sophisticated options in Garageband. For instance, if you really wanted to, you could download a new compressor, an EQ with a more accurate spectrum analyzer, and pretty much whatever else you want.

A great piano to install, in case you don’t like the stock piano, is the 4Front Piano, which is a little bit better than what comes as default.

Plug-ins are one of the greatest features of being a music producer, especially a hip-hop producer, and if you have access to a little bit of money, you can buy premium versions which are often significantly better than the free ones.

3) You Can Sample

Garageband comes with what’s called the AUSampler, and it essentially gives the user the capacity to upload whatever type of recording you want and then use it in your music, regardless of what it is.

It can be a bit tricky to step up when you don’t know how to do it.

Thankfully, I’ve written an entire article and guide on how to do this in Garageband, so make sure to check that out at the link here.

Sampling is an integral part of hip-hop production. For that reason, it would be insane for Garageband not to come with the function.

Moreover, AUSampler has a few different types of controls that allow you to adjust how it sounds.

Sampling can be used in many different ways, including introductions, outros, entire melodic phrases, speeches in the middle of the song, or perhaps even the main chorus.

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Some of the biggest hip-hop producers of all time are samplers, including Kanye West, and Garageband can meet this need.

4) Apple Loops

Garageband also comes with Apple Loops, which admittedly, isn’t something that I use on a regular basis.

However, many other users swear by the Apple Loops and use them all of the time. Truthfully, many of them are quite good and worth checking out.

I’ve written a whole article on how to use the