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642 Chapter 28 Creating Apple Loops
Send Effects in Software Instrument Apple Loops
If you create a SIAL from a region on a software instrument track that uses sends to bus
effects, and then drag the saved loop to another (empty) instrument track, the new
loop will sound different to the original source region. This happens because the
effects sends in the original track are not saved with the loop.
Logic Express does not automatically assign effects to busses, because doing so would
potentially interfere with bus configurations that you’ve already set up in your project.
Effects that are inserted directly into the software instrument channel will, however, be
automatically recalled when the loop is dragged into the Arrange area from the Loop
Browser.
You can use one of the following options to ensure that loops created from software
instrument regions will sound the same as the original regions:
 Drag your SIAL (the original of which was assigned to bus sends) to an audio track
instead of an instrument track. When you create a software instrument loop, the
audio file that is rendered will include any bus processing. This will sound identical to
the original.
 When creating a loop from a software instrument region, you should directly insert
all effects needed to reproduce the desired sound into the instrument’s channel strip.
This will allow all sound elements to be faithfully recreated when you add the loop to
an instrument track.
 When using SIALs on an unassigned channel strip, manually set up the sends and
bus effects needed to reproduce the sound of the original region.
Creating Apple Loops in the Apple Loops Utility
The Apple Loops Utility provides sophisticated functions for creating Apple Loops from
audio regions. It can detect transients present in an audio file, and you can add markers
for additional transients. You can also move these transient markers to new locations.
To create an Apple Loop in the Apple Loops Utility:
1 Select an audio region in the Arrange area.
2 Choose Audio > Open in Apple Loops Utility from the local Arrange menu (or use the
Open in Apple Loops Utility key command).
If the length of your audio file does not match the beats, the following dialog appears:
There are two possible reasons for the wrong length: