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Welcome to Silicon Beats

We have thousands of drum loops in a huge variety of musical styles and genres. The range from Jazz to Punk and everything in between. If we don't offer what you need please contact us with your suggestions.

Garageband Loops

Garageband Loops, Apple Loops
Silicon Beats now offers all of our loops in the popular Garageband Loops formats 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 all 3 file formats - read more>>

What is Silicon Beats?

Silicon Beats is an online archive of drum loops. You can purchase our drum loops as download packs which are available by "Genre". With every drum loop pack that you purchase the files are instantly delivered to you in 3 different formats which are all contained within one handy ZIP file. The 3 file formats that are included are WAV, AIF and Rex2.

Silicon Beats originally started life as "Breakbeats Only" way back in 2002. At that time we mainly offered what the title suggests (only breakbeats) but over the years our library of drum loops has grown in size and variety in order to satisfy the demands of our customers.

Silicon Beats is run by the same company that runs the world famous www.platinumloops.com so if you need other types of loops such as strings, horns, voices and much much more please check them out. Click here to learn more about Silicon Beats.

Bullet How To Import Apple Loops Into Garageband for iPad
 

How to Program Drums

Author: Gavin Hardcastle
Date: November 2011

We'll give you the good news first. Yes you can import your own third party loops into Garageband for iPad. The bad news is that they will not show up in the Loop browser for easy previewing. Why Apple chose to make it this way we do not know.

The other bad news is that Garageband on the iPad is not yet capable of using 24-bit audio files.

At the time this article was created Garageband for iPad can only handle 16-bit audio files, which are still extremely high quality.

With that in mind here is a step by step guide on how to get your apple loops imported into Garageband for iPad.

1 - On your computer open iTunes, go to your Devices, select your iPad and go to Apps.

iPad Apps

2 - Scroll down and click on Garageband in your Apps list and then hit the 'Add' button.

3 - Locate the apple loops that currently live on your computer and choose the ones you'd like to import and add those.

4 - Hit the 'Apply' button and then the 'Sync' button.

5 - After synch is complete launch Garageband on your iPad and tap on an empty audio track. You should see two options, 'Select All' and 'Import'.

Import Audio

6 - Choose 'Import' and you will now see a list of the apple loops you just added via iTunes.

Importing Apple Loops

7 - Have fun, make some sick tunes. Give this page a Like!

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