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User Sample Banks
User Sample Banks let you add more Multisamples to the system. You can create your own Banks, or use Banks from
third party sound developers.
modwave native can load many User Sample Banks simultaneously. Note that the hardware modwave can load only
one at a time; this is the only significant difference between the hardware and modwave native. All of the Banks must be
placed in a single, user-specified folder. To set the location of this folder:
1. Select User Sample Banks… from the main menu.
The User Sample Banks dialog will appear.
User Sample Banks dialog
2. Click in the “folder” field (starting with “/Users” in the screen-shot above).
A standard file dialog will appear.
3. Select the desired folder, or create a new one.
All User Sample Banks must be placed at the root level of this folder; sub-folders are not supported. This folder should
be located on an SSD, as opposed to a rotational hard drive. Up to 65,535 Banks are supported; note that very high
numbers of bank files may cause noticeable slowness when checking the contents of the folder and adding Banks (see
“How is the list of User Sample Banks updated?” on page 22).
Adding User Sample Banks
To add a User Sample Bank:
1. Move the .korgcompiledbank file(s) to the folder selected in the User Sample Banks… dialog.
If modwave native isn’t already running, then the User Sample Banks will be added to the database automatically the
next time it starts up. If modwave native is already running, then take one more step:
2. Open the User Sample Banks… dialog, and press OK/Refresh.
How is the list of User Sample Banks updated?
Every time modwave native instantiates, it checks the contents of the selected folder. If there has been a change in the
number of files, or the names, sizes, or modification dates of the files, the User Sample Bank portion of the database
will be cleared (to remove potentially obsolete references); all of the bank files in the folder will then be added to
the database. With modern computers and SSDs, and a reasonable number of Banks, this should be completed very
quickly.
Pressing OK/Refresh in the “User Sample Banks…” dialog also goes through the process above. Use this to update the
database if you’ve added files to the folder while modwave native is already running.
Individual Multisamples are identified by UUID (see the Sample Builder manual for more details), and not by the Bank
which contains them. This means that it’s possible for the same Multisample to be included in multiple Banks. If this
happens, the Multisample is loaded only once, from the last-added Bank (Banks are added in alphabetical order: 0-9,
A-Z, a-z). The selected Multisample’s source Bank is shown at the bottom of the Inspector in the Sound Browser.
Creating User Sample Banks
User Sample Banks are created by the separate Sample Builder application, which is available as a free download from
www.korg.com. After creating or importing Multisamples, use Sample Builder’s Save Bank For Plug-in command
to create a .korgcompiledbank file which can be used by modwave native. For more information, please see the
documentation included with the Sample Builder download.