Proprietary Dialog

Proprietary disks can't be read with a computer, so Instrument Manager™ provides a Proprietary Dialog so you can view the contents of your Akai, Roland, and other CD's and disks.

Proprietary disks can include CD's, disks, and Virtual Drives. Virtual Drives are (usually large) Image files that exist on your computer. The Proprietary Dialog can navigate these as well.

Virtual Drives are seen by Instrument Manager™ when they are in, or aliased/shortcutted, the Images folder. This is in the following locations:

If you are just reading your Proprietary disks, we strongly suggest making Virtual Drives out of all of them. You can use Disk Utility or Toast on the Mac, or most CD-burning softwares on Windows.

Select your desired peripheral or Virtual Drive in the popup menu above the dialog. You can Referesh using the Refresh button next to it. You have 3 views to selet from - Tree, List, and Column View.

Tree View
This view shows your drive in hierarchal indented form. Click the +/-/triangles to expand or collapse a node.

List View
This view shows the "current working folder" on your drive. Back up by clicking on the "Up to [xxx]" entry at the top, and go forward by double-clicking on a folder-type object on the list (they are listed first). By using the popupmenu up top, you can navigate back several steps.

Column View
This view borrows for the popular Mac Finder concept. It is similar to the List View only you expand into horizontal lists to the right of the parent.

You can drag in and drag out of the Proprietary Dialog to add or replace objects in the drive, just like a normal computer drive. (Of course, you cannot write to a CD, but you can write to a Virtual Drive, which you can later burn to a CD.) Sound Object drops are subject to the rules the drive imposes, for instance you can't drop a Instrument on a Akai Partition (they go in Akai Volumes).

Under normal standalone operation, you can only transfer Sound Objects of the same type into your proprietary disk. For example, you can only drop a Ensoniq .efe/.efa/.ins file onto a Ensoniq disk. However, if you have SamplerTools™ installed, you can also translate your object movements on the fly. For example, if you drag a Kontakt Instrument onto your Akai proprietary drive, it will convert the Kontakt Instrument into a Akai Program and Samples, THEN write the file to your proprietary disk.

You can also rename objects by selecting and single-clicking on the object after 1 second of the original selection. All names are subject to the rules the drive imposes, such as name leength, case, and identical name rules.