Note: not available yet in Instrument Manager™; will be implemented in a future version.

Names are the backbone of organization.

Many of us remember the days of hardware samplers and synthesizers where the names of your Patches could only be 8, 12, or 16 characters. (It's interesting to think about why this was - and still is. Mostly it's because of the size of the hardware screen. Why have a long name when it doesn't fit on the screen?) Even these days there are limits to names, but for the better reason of "you can remember shorter names". Still, the sound world is FULL of cryptic abbreviations, just for this reason.

Instrument Manager™ wouldn't be a Manager unless it allows you to change names. There are two levels of renaming: File Renaming and Object Renaming.

As you probably have figured out, there are 3 major levels of sound files: Banks, Instruments, and Samples. Banks contain Instruments, and Instruments contain Samples. So thus there are 2 levels of renaming: Samples in Instruments, and Instruments in Banks.

Instrument Manager™ uses it's Database to enable smart renaming - if you rename a sample file, within Instrument Manager™, it uses the database to change the name in the Instruments that reference it. (Please remember that the data must be in the Database - if it's not, it won't get changed.)

To rename an object, right-click on the object and select Rename. A Rename dialog appears, allow you to rename the object. Instrument Manager™, depending on the object, will automatically update all upward objects to reflect the new name.

Naming can alter the File Name of an object, for example a WAVE file, or an internal name (for example a SoundFont Preset).