TIP: How to create a Favorite Sound-bank
There are two possibilities:
1. Just create a bank, named “My Favorites”, and save all the interesting patches into this sound-bank. To
browse all your favorites, just set the first criteria to
BANK
, then select “My Favorites”. You can still use
the second criteria to filter the results by categories of instruments, in order to browse all your favorite
basses, for example. This method is fast, but it will duplicate your patches.
2. Just create a new tag in the
Project
field, and name it “My Favorites”, then just re-save any interesting
patch with this tag, using the
SAVE AS
option. To browse your favorites, just choose this tag in the
project field as the first criteria. This method is maybe more interesting because you can reverse it.
Should you later decide that a particular patch no longer deserves to be honored with it's “Favourites” tag,
simply remove the tag, then re-save it.
Note: Please be aware that creating too many categories can also have its drawbacks; making browsing
change from slightly difficult, to very cumbersome. Should you create around 200 different custom
instrument categories, it would become very difficult to browse the library using the Style (Category)
sorting. Use these options wisely.
Once you have filled out all the desired/required fields:
SAVE AS
: Will save the current preset in the chosen Bank, with its new (or unchanged) Name, and tagged
with all the fields you have filled in.
MOVE TO
: Allows transferring the current preset into another location (Bank). This is handy to gather a
lot of presets into a single location, or User Bank, which you can then export as a single file, containing all
the presets you have created or edited for a given project.
CANCEL
: This will just cancel all operations, and return to the standard
XILS 4
GUI.
6.3 Sort menus
The sorting menus are a unique and powerful tool. They allow you to perform sophisticated tasks, such as
displaying the preset list, but organized in a variety of different and specific ways.
Examples:
•
All the Basses in your Sound Library
•
All the Basses tagged with a specific musical genre.
•
All the Pads created by a particular Sound Designer.
•
All instruments tagged for a chosen musical genre, such as Electronica, or Funk.
•
All instruments that were recently imported into a bank (like additional sound-sets from Xils-Lab, or
it's 3
rd
party vendors)
There are many possibilities, but we are confident that you will find the best way to customize it to your
personal needs.
