Cameront9
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Yes, they are all free now.Am I mistaken or is Apple giving away all the old Artist lessons?
GarageBand for Mac Updated With New Drummers, Loops, Sound Effects and Free Artist Lessons
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Wheat Wiliams
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GarageBand 10.3 is unusable. It's introduced a serious bug.
GarageBand 10.3.0 has broken support for third-party AU virtual instruments. First it puts up an error message saying that you have to choose to reduce macOS security in your System Preferences to use a certain third-party AU plugin.
Then after you do that, it gives you an error message saying "Audio Unit plug-in can't be used. The Audio Unit could not be loaded for your project, and may need to be updated. Contact the manufacturer for an updated version or further assistance."
I have had this problem with 64-bit, up-to-date plugins that work just fine with no problem in MainStage 3.3.2 and other apps that use Audio Units. So the problem is with GarageBand 10.3.0.
I had no choice but to revert to GarageBand 10.2 from a backup so that I can keep working with my AU instruments.
GarageBand 10.3.0 has broken support for third-party AU virtual instruments. First it puts up an error message saying that you have to choose to reduce macOS security in your System Preferences to use a certain third-party AU plugin.
Then after you do that, it gives you an error message saying "Audio Unit plug-in can't be used. The Audio Unit could not be loaded for your project, and may need to be updated. Contact the manufacturer for an updated version or further assistance."
I have had this problem with 64-bit, up-to-date plugins that work just fine with no problem in MainStage 3.3.2 and other apps that use Audio Units. So the problem is with GarageBand 10.3.0.
I had no choice but to revert to GarageBand 10.2 from a backup so that I can keep working with my AU instruments.
Cameront9
macrumors 65816
Lynda.com has some great courses by Garrick Chow that helped me immensely. There's also thegaragebandguide.com which has a lot of great free and paid tutorials.
The app you chose to install in the first place. What a pointless comment.
Leave this thread for people who appreciate Apple giving us great software updates.
I don’t understand, why people come here, moan about the update of a software (excellent software, if I may say)
they don’t use. What the heck are the people thinking
The Jazz brush drummer is good, but was hoping for something along side of Buddy Rich drum work
Looking forward to the update on IOS
aliensporebomb
macrumors 68000
That's a serious issue. And it's also why I keep an old version of Garageband as backup prior to the user interface overhaul.
I updated my machine this morning prior to going to the day gig, I'll have to check this out. I have a lot of virtual instruments.
I don’t understand, why people come here, moan about the update of a software (excellent software, if I may say)
they don’t use. What the heck are the people thinking
The Jazz brush drummer is good, but was hoping for something along side of Buddy Rich drum work
Looking forward to the update on IOS
Hi. What are the drummer's names? I can't find them.
jzuena
macrumors 65816
Am I mistaken or is Apple giving away all the old Artist lessons?
Yes, but some of them have been removed. I went to download some songs I know, to see how close I am to playing the same way as the artist, and all of Sting's songs are gone.
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Yes! its not working for me as well, and i tried clearing the audio cache and twotone patch fix. Still not reading any of my plugins.
you would think they would make sure it works this time after the previous screw up.
Any chance anyone knows where i can get a Garageband 10.2 installer. All my sessions are screwed up now.
You would be a lifesaver! thanks in advance.
silvetti
macrumors 6502a
Jazz brush - Tyler
Wheat Wiliams
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My speculation is that all of these "celebrity" music lessons were the result of individual business contracts struck with the artists' business management. My guess would be that Apple's license to use Sting's lessons was for a certain number of years, and that license has expired, and Apple didn't want to pay what Sting was asking to renew the license. Apple decided to make the library of lessons free to all, which means Apple no longer earns income from selling them, which means Apple saw no point in paying more money to Sting according to his license contract. On the flipside, the users benefit greatly from all the other lessons from other artists being made free.
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For many years I've had a Time Machine backup of my Mac, on an external hard drive. What I did was use Time Machine to restore GarageBand to the state it was in the day before I installed the update to GarageBand 10.3. This restored GarageBand 10.2. Then I went into the Preferences for Apple's App Store utility and set it to stop automatically downloading software updates from Apple and to stop automatically installing them. Otherwise the App Store app is going to nag me every day telling me to click to install updates, and it's going to over-write GarageBand 10.2 with GarageBand 10.3.
If you don't have a Time Machine backup, I am sorry that my advice is of little use to you in reverting to GarageBand 10.2, but in the future I suggest that you get an inexpensive external hard drive and start using Time Machine every day because of the rare occurance of problems such as this.
ChrisChaval
macrumors 6502a
Ah... the 1GB+ app that I've removed a long time ago. I quite enjoy not having to update it to
what was updated is GB for Mac and the update weighs around 15 GB
This really is one great application and I wish I'd have more time for making music
the iOS app seems to be a somewhat stripped down version of the Mac equivalent
If we could also open the computer GarageBand files on iOS GarageBand, with full compatibility, that would be an absolute killer app.
+ the FX for individual track and full track
That would be like eating peaches in heaven
Dj64Mk7
macrumors 65816
Been wishing for this since I began using GarageBand on macOS (nearly ten years ago).
aliensporebomb
macrumors 68000
Exactly. Sometimes my time for music making happens when I have 10 free minutes at the day gig and I could ideally work briefly on a GB file from my big machine at home on the IOS device and save the changes to work on them further when I get home.
Unfortunately this doesn't work as yet.
I also use Maschine on my iPhone whenever I travel so I have a piece of music I've written for every city I happen to have visited. That at least I can dump the audio mix from to my big machine and overdub around it. Not again ideal but has worked.
Unfortunately this doesn't work as yet.
I also use Maschine on my iPhone whenever I travel so I have a piece of music I've written for every city I happen to have visited. That at least I can dump the audio mix from to my big machine and overdub around it. Not again ideal but has worked.
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mvsopen
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I made the error of upgrading GB to 10.3 a few days ago. Big mistake. Huge. The new version won't install any of the "Artist Series" videos on my fully-patched Macbook Pro, with High Sierra 10.13.5.
The clips I selected ("Ventura Highway" at 1.02 gb and "Sister Golden Hair" at 650 mb) both download fine, but the installation fails about about 80% for each song. The error dialog says "GarageBand can't install new sound files. Close GarageBand and re-open it to try the download again." But as soon as you quit and reopen GB, it attempts to download both files again, without prompting you to do so, and another half an hour of file downloads begins, then fails once again.
I've tried it from my Admin account, that no difference. I've even tried re-installing the 26 gb (!) sound files - those work fine, but it took nearly 8 hours to install those, and the problem with the Artist Videos continues.
If anyone has a solution for this, please share it?
Thanks!
The clips I selected ("Ventura Highway" at 1.02 gb and "Sister Golden Hair" at 650 mb) both download fine, but the installation fails about about 80% for each song. The error dialog says "GarageBand can't install new sound files. Close GarageBand and re-open it to try the download again." But as soon as you quit and reopen GB, it attempts to download both files again, without prompting you to do so, and another half an hour of file downloads begins, then fails once again.
I've tried it from my Admin account, that no difference. I've even tried re-installing the 26 gb (!) sound files - those work fine, but it took nearly 8 hours to install those, and the problem with the Artist Videos continues.
If anyone has a solution for this, please share it?
Thanks!
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[doublepost=1529960383][/doublepost]Hey Wheat. I have the same problem. All of my 3rd party plug-ins are unusable. GB is not recognizing Kontakt, or Spitfire. The q is, is Apple aware of the AU plug-in issue & if so, when will they fix it. Thanks.
I called Apple support about this, last night. No help. They basically had me check if the Apple plugins worked, which they did, so then told me that it was an issue with the third party plugins and that I'd need to contact each vendor individually for an update. Aside from how unrealistic that would be for me to do, I find it hard to believe that it's up to the vendors to fix, as it’s *every* AU instrument I have, and they all exhibit the exact same behavior. I've been considering upgrading to Logic Pro, but if I'm going to have to make sure each and every plugin vendor updates their stuff every time Apple pushes an update, I don't see the point. All my projects are dead in the water until there is a fix, as I don't have a time machine backup to revert to 10.2.
silvetti
macrumors 6502a
To everyone having issues installing the lessons.
I have found the way!
I will update later when I'm at home, basically it involves enabling root user, logging in to it and removing a folder (I don't remember the path correctly).
Will update later! If I don't just remind me
I have found the way!
I will update later when I'm at home, basically it involves enabling root user, logging in to it and removing a folder (I don't remember the path correctly).
Will update later! If I don't just remind me
Zede4444
macrumors newbie
Exactly the same problem !!!!
I think I'm gonna buy Logic Pro but how can I be sure That I'm not gonna find the same problem ???
All my projects are affected...
A bit of input regarding the Artist Lessons. I'm still a bit of a hack regarding music creation, I still like GB '11 (6.0.5) for Magic GB and import tweaked content from '11 into the current version. I have GB '11 installed in a El Cap VM and a Sierra VM, which run a bit slowly. My point here?
I've managed to DL some of the Lessons in GB 10.3 (including a few that I'd previously purchased in years past). I'm still having issues getting some of the remaining Lessons to DL in GB 10.3. GB '11 does still have the Store available but not recognize what has been DL'd in 10.3. GB '11 still has all of the previous Lessons available - even those from Fogerty and Sting, checking a couple of hours ago. GB '11 is still making all of the Lessons available at the $5 price, even those showing up as "free" in GB 10.3 and the few that I'd purchased previously in years past.
Apple has also pulled some of the GB '11 content updates from the MAS; I have all of this in backups, but it was available a few weeks ago when I created the VMs on my iMP.
Yep, a bit of a head scratcher here, FYI...
I've managed to DL some of the Lessons in GB 10.3 (including a few that I'd previously purchased in years past). I'm still having issues getting some of the remaining Lessons to DL in GB 10.3. GB '11 does still have the Store available but not recognize what has been DL'd in 10.3. GB '11 still has all of the previous Lessons available - even those from Fogerty and Sting, checking a couple of hours ago. GB '11 is still making all of the Lessons available at the $5 price, even those showing up as "free" in GB 10.3 and the few that I'd purchased previously in years past.
Apple has also pulled some of the GB '11 content updates from the MAS; I have all of this in backups, but it was available a few weeks ago when I created the VMs on my iMP.
Yep, a bit of a head scratcher here, FYI...
jzuena
macrumors 65816
I never realized this until today when I tried saving a MacOS project to iCloud and couldn't open it on my phone. Boo! What if I want to show my friends how bad I am at playing Tom Sawyer?
But at least a couple of old .band files I had lying around still opened and were updated to the new format. One with a guitar track and one with a non-MIDI keyboard. Luckily, I never had any 3rd party plugins. Reminds me of how utterly hopeless I was a few years ago... makes my bad playing seem good in comparison.
If you want to show to your friends, how bad of a musician you are, I would recommend to do this live in front of them. Recording will just not do
There are worst things than that.
I compose classical piano and minimal classical music and I cannot play any instrument
Would be amazing if I could play at least badly and then repair the midi files
Ella Bambella
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As above, this new version no longer allows external plug-ins to work, and I really need a LUFS meter for my narration work. I know I so should have backed up regularly so I could revert to the previous version, but being the n00b I am, I totally haven't time-machined for faaaaar too long....
Has anyone found a new in-built LUFS meter in the new version? Or have Apple just completely screwed me over?
Ella