Finding where a used sample resides?
2001-07-05 by roman pirie
Hello everyone, If I have a sample used in a sampler instrument how can I quickly see where it actually is. What I have been doing is copying or preferably moving drum samples to the same folder as each instrument file. This has basically meant that my sample library is organised within the sampler instruments folder. Which is an alias to my audio hard drive. My folder system is something like this: Drums Single shots, Drumloops Reggae Drums, Hip hop drums, House drums Hihats, Kicks, Snares etc (for each Genre) This means all my drum samples can be moved to the sampler instrument folder once a sampler instrument has been created. Moving the samples as they get used by each instrument means that the old sample library (files and folders) is getting converted to a logical EXS sampler instrument library. TIP: When moving your audio files name the folder that the samples will be stored in the same as the instrument but with an f at the end (so that it can reside in the same folder) then all samples for each instrument are neatly stored in a folder named after that instrument and if you leave the instrument file in the folder above that one you won't get double names in the heirarchical EXS flip menu. I hope this makes sense.