The powerful Sound Database lists all your entered samples in a list. It can contain WAVE, AIFF, or .mvo-based Samples of any bitrate, samplerate, or length.

There is only one Database for you to use. In future versions there will be the ability to have multiple Databases.

You can access the Database with the Sound Database Simple Interface, the Sound Database Editor, or via any Import context menu.

Each Sample File, or sample within a .mv0 file, can only have one listing.

There are two main categories, Drum/Percussion and Chromatic. Most sounds fit into one or the other category. Chromatic are sounds that are pitched and rise in pitch up and down the "keyboard". Drums/Percussion are "non-pitched" sounds that usually play on one key.

(For the purists out there, all sounds are "pitched" in one degree or another, but we are using the term in the sense of playing the sound in equal-tempered increments.)

Each of these two categories have several fixed sub-categories. You can view one of these sub-categories, or you can choose to look at ALL in a certain category. Or, there is an ALL listing where you can simply see all your samples without breaking them down.

Each column gives you a certain amount of information:

• Name: This is the name of the sample.
• File Name: This is the file name of the sample. This can be different then Name because you can access named samples within a .mv0.
• Index: Only regards .mvo-based samples, this is the Index it is in within the .mv0 file
• Category: Drums/Percussion or Chromatic
• Sub-Category: A sub-category.
• Operations: A PLAY and STOP button.

Note that you can change what category/subcategory your listing is filed under by selecting another cat/subcat in the listing. Clicking on the headers enables you to sort according to each column.

Importing
You can add to your database by right-clicking on the Treeview to the left, on a category or sub-category. You can choose Add File or Add Folder. Add File simply adds a single file to your database, in the category/subcategory you right clicked on. Add Folder will add all samples in that folder (and under it as well) to your database.

When you import a .mv0 file, each sample usually has a Category listed in the sample header data. MV Kit Creator™ takes this and converts it into a Sound Database-style Category and Sub-Category.

Mac Aliases
On the Mac, we use "Alias Records" to store locations of files. That mau sound Einstein-ish, but what that means is that you can move any file in your system and the Sound Database will track it.

Simply having a Database means nothing unless you can do something with it. That "something" is dragging listings out of the Sound Database or Sound Database Editor onto a Pad on the main interface. We advise using the Sound Database as an easy way of bulding your kits.

Please, please notice that the Sound Database is integrated in the Partial/Patch Editor (in the SMT section) and any Import right-click context menu you may encounter.