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Subject:managing loops Posted by: rarcmr Date:6/11/2003 9:46:31 AM Hi: A newbie question. I recently purchases Acid Pro 4.0 and 6 drum loop CD's including Mick Fleetwood's. Is there a printed list of each loop CD contents ( ie master sheet) somewhere on the CD's or other place I have not seen that I can print off? Also. Is there a way I can keep a category library list on my computer that works well? Thanks. Bob
Subject:RE: managing loops Reply by: Iacobus Date:6/11/2003 10:31:34 AM In response to your first question, I believe not. For your second question, I'm thinking that you could go through your collections and enter them in a database (like Microsoft Works' database function or Microsoft Access). Then you can punch up and/or print out what you're looking for (and subsequently enter new data as you acquire more loop collections). HTH, Iacobus
Subject:RE: managing loops Reply by: drbam Date:6/11/2003 11:29:45 AM Once you get a few gigs of loops, you may wish to organize them all (in whatever system works for you) on a separate drive. If you wait too long it's a tedious task but worth it once you've got it in place. I have mine on a removable IDE drive that I put in my backup drive bay when I want to use it. A firewire drive works great as well. drbam
Subject:RE: managing loops Reply by: SonyNateM Date:6/11/2003 3:56:02 PM Here is what I do with big directories of samples and loops. 1) Put in the CD 2) Open a command prompt (Start>Run then "command" under 9x or "cmd" under 2k/xp) 3) Change to the proper directory on your CD drive 4) Type: dir /b /s > c:\mylist.txt Now, you will have a file at the root of your C: drive that has a full list of all files in that directory and it's subdirectories with their full paths. Drop that into a spreadsheet or capable text editor, and with a little search and replace, you have a nicely formatted tree of all the files on your CD. Hope this helps. Nate
Subject:RE: managing loops Reply by: rarcmr Date:6/13/2003 10:22:34 AM Thanks to all for your ideas and responses. Much appreciated. Bobrock

Subject:managing loops

Posted by: rarcmr

Date:6/11/2003 9:46:31 AM

Hi: A newbie question. I recently purchases Acid Pro 4.0 and 6 drum loop CD's including Mick Fleetwood's. Is there a printed list of each loop CD contents ( ie master sheet) somewhere on the CD's or other place I have not seen that I can print off?
Also. Is there a way I can keep a category library list on my computer that works well? Thanks.

Bob

Subject:RE: managing loops

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:6/11/2003 10:31:34 AM

In response to your first question, I believe not.

For your second question, I'm thinking that you could go through your collections and enter them in a database (like Microsoft Works' database function or Microsoft Access). Then you can punch up and/or print out what you're looking for (and subsequently enter new data as you acquire more loop collections).

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: managing loops

Reply by: drbam

Date:6/11/2003 11:29:45 AM

Once you get a few gigs of loops, you may wish to organize them all (in whatever system works for you) on a separate drive. If you wait too long it's a tedious task but worth it once you've got it in place. I have mine on a removable IDE drive that I put in my backup drive bay when I want to use it. A firewire drive works great as well.

drbam

Subject:RE: managing loops

Reply by: SonyNateM

Date:6/11/2003 3:56:02 PM

Here is what I do with big directories of samples and loops.

1) Put in the CD
2) Open a command prompt (Start>Run then "command" under 9x or "cmd" under 2k/xp)
3) Change to the proper directory on your CD drive
4) Type: dir /b /s > c:\mylist.txt

Now, you will have a file at the root of your C: drive that has a full list of all files in that directory and it's subdirectories with their full paths. Drop that into a spreadsheet or capable text editor, and with a little search and replace, you have a nicely formatted tree of all the files on your CD.

Hope this helps.

Nate

Subject:RE: managing loops

Reply by: rarcmr

Date:6/13/2003 10:22:34 AM

Thanks to all for your ideas and responses. Much appreciated.

Bobrock