AB4 "Consolidate" Equivalent?

Is there a way to "consolidate" banks in Ab 4 as you could in Ab 3? It sure would be nice instead of having to search around my HDs for the wav files I used and throw them in the sample folder.

thanks,
2112

 

No, there isn't.

ew

 

I am very upset. I have spent the whole weekend trying to understand the new kore-sound system. All I have found out that it is a pain in the ### and does not make things easier. Everything is hidden in some winxp system folders and saving and exporting the patches is a hard job. I am not interested in 8247 presets. I just want to organise my selfmade sounds as easy as I am used to. I expected the koresound format to save the sounds including the used .wav samples as the "consolidate bank" function did in A3. But as ewistand stated clear that is not possible anymore.
I will not buy another update which forces me to use the new kore-sound stuff.

 

It doesn't hide anything in system folders. The user content's in My Documents/Native Instruments/Shared Content/Sounds. and the factory contrent's in Program Files/Common Files/Native Instruments/Shared Content/Sounds. Neither of those are system folders...

ew

 

I recall seeing somewhere in Absynth 4's options where to set sample directories... If you set it to a root directory with all your samples will it find the ones you've used to create patches, even if they are in sub directories?

Still, it all seems a bit backwards to get rid of the consolidate function. NI gets a thumbs down on that decision.

 

That´s great. NI decides that I do not need the consolidate functin anymore because they added a new "feature" which forces me to rearrange my whole library.

 

Yes it will; I have all my samples in the Absynth sample folder, and that one's got subdirectories for various banks and the like. It works fine.

As to the consolidate banks function; how can you consolidate banks when A4 doesn't use banks per se?

ew

 

The more I use the new setup, the more I like it actually. But a "consolidate Patch" function would be good enough. That way, it just saves the samples used in the patch in your sample directory (maybe in a subfolder with the patch name) or, better still, it saves it in the same directory with the KSD in a sub folder.
It just would make it easier to back up and move your patches around and not have to hunt for the wav files used.

...2112

 

That´s the point! Battery can save all used samples in a subfolder and Reaktor keeps them in the .ens file. Why is the new sound format a step backwards?
I don´t want to critisize the whole kore concept but maybe an update could add this really cool feature which we are used to for many years now.

 

I found this old thread because it´s a bit annoying that the saving function only saves the patch without any samples. I screwed up one patch because of accidentially deleting a used sample. If the samples would be saved together with the patch (like in Kontakt for example) then that would NOT have happened. Please add this feature to the next update...

Deepbass