GarageBand for MacOS comes with dozens and dozens of top notch virtual instruments for you to wrap your fingers around. That said, there will come a time when you want to broaden your sonic horizons with some new instrument sounds. Nov 01, 2017 Apple today updated its GarageBand for iOS app to version 2.3, bringing support for the Super Retina OLED display of the iPhone X and introducing a new Sound Library designed to let users download. Mar 25, 2015 Launch GarageBand and head up to the GarageBand menu, just to the right of the Apple menu. You’ll see Download More Sounds about three items down. Select that and you can choose to download. It is just, that Apple split the download into the basic set to get started, and the extra download to get the full set of instruments and loops. The extra content will download, whenever GarageBand is connected to the Internet. If you interrupt it, it will resume the download, when you restart Garageband. Also, you can use the GarageBand app to barely instrument, microphone, or a musical instrument and instantly record a performance with support for of thirty-two tracks. Use the new sound library to transfer further free instruments, loops, and sound packs. You’ll conjointly share your creation together with your friends and family.

GarageBand is looking for the Instrument Library in the folder

/Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/

and for the loops in the folder /Library/Audio/Apple Loops/

The system is creating them on the internal drive, and you cannot simply move these folders and redirect GarageBand to use the moved versions on the external drive.

Free Vst Instruments Garageband

There are two approaches to circumvent these.

Download Garageband Instrument Library Is Called

You can install sounds and loops in the library folder in your user home folder as well. Install them in the Library folder in your home folder. This will only help, if you relocate the complete home folder of your user account to the external drive. You can do that from the System preferences > Users&Groups. But that would require to have always the external drive connected, before you even log in - not really convenient on a portable Mac. It would work well on an iMac or Mac mini however. (http://macs.about.com/od/diyguidesprojects/qt/Move-Your-Home-Folder-To-A-New-Loc ation.htm)
You can try to cheat GarageBand by replacing the folders /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/ and Library/Audio/Apple Loops/ by symbolic links to folders on your external hard drive. This used to work well in earlier system versions. I have never tried it on El Capitan, so I cannot guarantee if it will work. The procedure is described here for Logic Pro, it would be similar for GarageBand: https://music.tutsplus.com/articles/how-and-why-to-move-your-logic-pro-x-sound-l ibraries-to-an-external-drive--audio-195…

Sep 19, 2016 11:06 PM