Native Instruments Absynth 5 Reference Manual page 173

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Comment: this field can hold any information you want. Often it is used to describe a
KORE SOUND in terms of its possible usage, and also to note any special interactive
features of the KORE SOUND, e.g. "MIDI modulation wheel controls master cutoff."
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Number of Inputs: Specifies the number of inputs used in the oscillators (see section
"Oscillator Module").
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Number of Outputs: Specifies the number of outputs set in the Output Setup (see section
5.4 "Oscillator Module").
Note that the format of the Meta Information has been unified among a number of different
NI software instruments such as MASSIVE, ABSYNTH 5 and FM8 as well as our software live
host KORE 2 in order to provide a common environment for your work. Some of the displayed
values may, however, not be active within all of these instruments. For instance, Color is of
no importance within ABSYNTH 5 itself.
You can search through all of the entries of the Meta Information with the Search Field of
the Browser. For example, you can enter the name of the project created for your sound in
the first place into the Comment field. By using the database you can access it easily in all
future projects, and if you need all sounds used in a particular project, you can find them by
entering the project's name into the Search Field.
All sounds you save are automatically integrated into the database. While this is very comfort-
able for browsing – you don't have to worry about where the KORE SOUND files are actually
stored – you should take a moment while saving a new KORE SOUND to set its attributes. If
you don't do this, your database will quickly become less useful, as you won't be able to find
your own sounds easily. Take a look at Appendix A and Appendix B for an explanation of all
attributes as well as some basic examples.
After entering the Meta Information and setting the attributes according to your sound, you can
save it by clicking the Save button within the Navigation Bar. This button will bring up a Save
As dialog asking you for the new KORE SOUND file's name and the location to save it. If you
saved the sound previously, this may overwrite the old file unless you rename it at this point; if
so, ABSYNTH will ask you whether or not you really want to overwrite it. By default, the dialog
box will suggest to save the sound to the user content folder or one of its sub-folders. The user
content folder is created during installation and can be found in "My Documents/Absynth 5/My
Sounds" (Windows) or "[User]/Documents/Absynth 5/My Sounds" (Mac OS X). You can access
this folder within the Browser's File Tree View by selecting the My Sounds entry. As explained
above, you can use your operating system to delete or rename files within these folders.
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