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Organized Refills 2009-03-31 21:50

I was speaking with an artist the other day who was having some issues when loading song files that could not locate a sound from a specific refill and it occurred to me that something I do as a rule might be of some use.

If you have a lot of refills on both an internal and external hard drives and ever find yourself in a situation where you need to locate a sound from a refill that you just can't remember the location of... try this refill organization setup that I use:

Main categories:

Instruments

Music Genres

Propellerhead

Other

Most every refill will fall into these main categories and you can then create sub categories for each... for example:

Instruments Folder

subfolders:

Drums

Guitar and Bass

Synths

Voice

World

Thor

So lets say I load a song and it comes up with a dialog saying please located the refill "Drum Machines"... I know that if I look in the Instruments / Drums folder on either my internal or external harddrive I will find it there. Or say it asks for "Aquasky Electro House and Breaks".... I go to my Music Genres / Breaks folder and boom... there it is.

 

Using the method of categories may take a bit of time to switch over to at first (took me about 3 hours time initially).. but once you do, it makes the process of finding sounds when inspiration strikes or loading an old song file much faster.

 

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Comment posted by: JKenyon - 2009-07-01 01:15

I am looking to build a pc specifically geared towards reason 4. Would you be able to advise me on the best processor to use to get the most out of reason so it will be able to run anything that gets thrown at it, multiple combinator patches etc...
Also keeping in mind when Record gets its release, what kind of power would i need to run both programs without any misshaps??

Thank You


Comment posted by: Loopback - 2009-07-21 20:30

Hi,

Thanx alot for pointing on this app. Got it workin on PC with reason/record. Now im messing around with the Editor to create a template for reason/records transport controls without the need to override mappings. Would be great for me to remote control play/stop/rec/ff/fb (later click on/off, level, bpm etc.) with touchosc but i really have a hard time to figure out the correct ccs as they arent listed in the midi implementation chart.

Greetings from Switzerland


Comment posted by: Loopback - 2009-07-21 20:31

Argh, my comment belongs to the TouchOSC video :(


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