With the latest release of Soundtrack Pro 3 there are two ways of adjusting your Tempo and Key signatures.

One of the ways is to go into the preference panel under file at the top and adjust your project. ( This would make your settings a default every time you wanted to start a new project, it would always be in the same Key and same Tempo). No good (at least not for us).

We at Soundtrackloops.com like to hear what our loops sound like in all the different Keys after Acidized and Apple Looping them to assure the best quality and to make sure you, the end user, are receiving properly formatted loop files from us. We also like the ability to adjust our Key and Tempo when creating a demo, song, or soundtrack to a iMovie or YouTube video, and also hear the results instantaneously.

So we set out to make a tutorial as easy and a painless as possible with images so you can understand quickly and get to making your next score at what ever Tempo and Key you want it to be at. Read the contents below to find out how you can do this on your own

Step one – Open Soundtrack Pro 3.

Step two – Locate your Window drop down in your tool bar at the very top.

Step three – Scroll down to your Tabs menu.

Step four – Move your cursor to the right so the Tabs menu opens up and you see Project Properties, highlight and click to enable.

Step five – Your Project Properties should now be in plain sight.

Step six – Now that you can see your project properties. You will first see your projects title, description, artist, copyright, genre and other information which you can edit. Now use the scroll bar to scroll to the bottom to find your current projects Tempo and Key signature it is in. ( I found default was the Key signature of G and Tempo at 120)

Step seven – Now adjust your Tempo to what ever BMP (beats per minute) you would like.

Step eight – You will now want to highlight your Key signature to adjust what Key you will want you song to sound like. ( a menu should show once clicked)

Step nine – One thing we like is the ability to put your projects menu where it is easily accessible. All you need to do is grab the Project Tab and drag to any of your viewing layout panes.

We like ours by our loop browser (as shown below)

There you have it. Easy as a bass beat pie.. feel free to comment or share any of your tutorials and or tips

I felt this really necessary to do. It’s one of the most asked questions so I figured I would just make a quick tutorial on how to install Loops into Garageband.

First locate the little Eye Icon as shown below to open your Garageband loop browser.

Now Click the Eye Icon so it turns Blue as shown below

You should now see your loop browser

Click images to see larger view

Now Navigate to your Folder that contains your new loops and grab that folder

Drop it into your Loop Browser (Yep the entire folder right in there)

Now right above your instrument Buttons there is a little bar and it normally starts out by saying Garageband and has 2 small little black arrows one facing up and one facing down. Click that to open up a window as shown below

Now Click your all Drums button to view drums

And to view other instruments just hit your reset button

Now that you got your loops in GarageBand Just drag your file from the loop browser to the window above.

Other tips. When you cant find installed loops in Ggarageband it’s most likely is because your BPM is locked to reflect the BPM of that project. It is a default setting in Garageband. To turn this off so you can see every loop go into Garageband preferences, Choose loops, then uncheck the box that say’s Filter for more relevant results. Now look in your loop browser in Garageband and make sure your LCD (the blues display in Garageband) display is on measures, now check your loop browser. You should now see every loop no matter what BPM’s they are or key they are in. Let us know that his helped

Producer Libraries Requirements .:

Producers are to have at least 100 usable loops in the same key and BPM/Tempo (with the exception of Percussion and Drums which have no key’s )

Producers loops are to be cut on measure of 1,2,4,8,16, 32. (with the exception of One Shots that can contain beats and might not equal a measure)
Recording and raw .wav file is to be 24 bit for best possible quality

Producers are to create a 2 minute or longer demo of their library with only loops used in creation

Producers are to use the following example in naming of a file .: SL_CinematicSynths_Key_A_100BPM_01.wav ( SL_LibraryTitle_Instrument_Key_BPM_#.wav)

Soundtrack Loops recommends using Sony Vegas to record and edit your recordings into usable loops, but is not required

Soundtrack Loops in turn will provide the following .:

SL will preform (A.L.F.) Advance Loop Formating from the raw .wav file to produce specific targeted Audio / Video programs for PC,MAC and iPhone/iPod Touch
Each format derived from A.L.F. is :. Acidized .WAV , Apple Loop .AIFF , Recycled loops .RX2 and BeatMaker BeatPacks .BMKZ (with the possibility of expanding into new formats)

SL is responsible for uploading, customer service, packaging, managing and releaseing producers library

SL will produce cover art for usable library, To be used in marketing campaigns, e-mail blast, websites and advertisement.

SL will add your library to it’s many content providers for more exposure of your product
SL will include a .url and .txt file with in each library sold that direct the purchaser to Soundtrackloops.com and producers website(s) along with Producers bio / info
SL will provide the producer a user and contracted aggrements upon start of (A.L.F.)

Producers will receive royalties from their libraries in form of paypal of 40% sales per usable library provided per month (unless otherwise aggreed upon)

If you are interested please send a formal e-mail to Marketing@soundtrackloops.com explaining your past & present work