AppleLoopEditor v1.4 macOS [FREE]

macOS I Size: 2.01 MB

Apple Loop metadata editor — this app edits any Apple Loop-specific metadata (Scale, Genre, Key, Type and Instrument Descriptors) already embedded in existing Apple Loops, without going through Logic Pro or GarageBand. It replaces Apple's discontinued Apple Loops Utility, which is no longer compatible with modern ARM64 architectures.

Features

-Edit the Scale, Genre, Key, Type (Loop / One-Shot) tags

-Full Instrument Descriptors editing (category, subcategory, and attributes such as -Single/Ensemble, Clean/Distorted, Acoustic/Electric, etc.)

-Suggestive Key/Mode analysis (one file at a time): suggests the 3 most likely keys with their probability, from the loop's audio and, when the loop carries one, its embedded MIDI performance. The models were trained on Apple's own tagged loops: on loops they never saw, the top suggestion matches Apple's key about 61% of the time (about 70% when the loop has MIDI), and the right key is among the 3 suggestions about 86% of the time. Click a suggestion to set Key and Scale. Purely indicative: nothing is written to the file until you save

-Batch editing (multi-file selection)

-Built-in audio playback/preview of the selected loop, using spacebar

-Drag and drop of files or entire folders

-Automatic container format detection (classic AIFF or CAF)

v1.4 – No more .bak copies next to your loops

No more .bak copies next to your loops. Saving a loop could leave a copy of the previous version beside it ("Kick.caf.bak"), but only in some cases: when you had dropped a whole folder into the app (picking files one by one never did it). Saving is atomic, so the file is already protected: an interrupted save can't damage it. You can delete any .bak files left over from earlier versions.

The last error messages still in French are now in English.