Sample Naming in Maschine

So I'm finally sinking my teeth into Maschine and being a bit of a neat freak, I have an issue when it comes to sampling with Maschine.

Is there any way of removing the date stamp from the beginning of each sample that you make?

I have tried sampling and then "saving as" but when searching through my samples the sample will just be numbers [date stamp etc]. I'd really like to use my re-use my stock samples that I'm creating and have them appear in the same way as the built in library samples ie "Accordion 1A0" etc rather than 110503_etc etc

Please tell me that I'm missing something here as it's putting me off sampling with Maschine until I can get this right.

Thanks in advance for helping a noobie

 

Save As should save the sample as whatever you save it. The original sample will still be saved with the stamp though, I think. Your manual saving doesn't overwrite it.
It's a slight pain but I've always "saved as" and then imported the samples into the library. And removed the originals.

Though if you think that if it didn't automatically save them somehow, after every sampling, you'd have to use the keyboard (and perhaps mouse) to save each sample by a name. And it really can't be expected to know what you're sampling and give it an appropriate name. It is just a ma(s)chine.

 

I see! I was only seeing the date stamped ones appearing at the top of the sample library [with them starting with numbers].

When you say you've always saved as and then imported them into your library - I'm assuming that saving will import them automatically into your library?

Thanks a lot for that reply btw.

 

I don't think "saving as" does automatically import them. That's why it's a slight pain. But if you save them all to the same place it's not that big a deal.

 

That's a real shame isn't it?

Any reason why Maschine doesn't do this?

How do you import your renamed samples into the main library?

 

to clarify as best I can when you click on the sample in the sample window (the grey bar) and rename and save there when you save your project into its own folder using the save samples and sounds then click remove unused samples it will delete the old timestamped unused sample automatically. hence it's always good to name the sample right when you sample it. (and save your beats into individual folders too for many reasons)

 

NI haven't made it do it?

The same way I import any samples. No special trickery.

 

Thanks to you both for taking the time to help.

I'm an MPC convert and just getting my head around a different way to work with samples. My samples were always saved to my zip drive

Still going to sample into my MPC3000 then import into Maschine for certain things.

Any suggestions on a more comprehensive guide to Maschine other than the rather brief manual you get with it?

 

The reference manual you get with it (it's a .pdf). And the 1.6 Addendum (also a .pdf).