Notes On Using The Tagging System - Akai S3000XL User Manual

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NOTES ON USING THE TAGGING SYSTEM

The tagging system is very powerful and can save you a lot of time searching for files and
this is especially useful if you have a busy deadline to meet or are working in an
expensive studio or whatever.
For example, you may tag all orchestral sounds including strings, brass, woodwind,
orchestral percussion, choir and so forth into one tag TAG A (which, of course, you should
subsequently name ORCHESTRA or something similar). You could then tag all your
strings (which could also include, say, synth strings, etc.) in TAG B (renamed STRINGS)
and your brass (including synth brass, 'pop' brass, etc.) in another tag called BRASS. All
your orchestral percussion could also be in another tag that also includes your
powerhouse rock drums and percussion and synth drums, etc.. Bass sounds could be in
one big tag that contains ALL your bass sounds whilst synth bass sounds could also be in
a separate tag for synth basses as well as in a general purpose SYNTH tag.
In this way, depending on the project you are working on, you may select sounds far more
quickly. For example, if you are working on an orchestral piece, you would probably use
the ORCHESTRA tag as this would give you all the sounds suitable for creating an
orchestral effect but, if you were working on a ballad that requires a strings pad, maybe it
would be better to use the STRING tag because, although the ORCHESTRA tag has
strings in it, you wouldn't have to be distracted by orchestral brass, percussion, etc..
Similarly for bass. In a rock track, you would probably use your BASS tag that contains
electric basses but, in a dance track, you may head straight for the SYNTH BASS tag so
as to only be presented with synth basses and not be distracted by electric or acoustic
basses.
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