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3. Use the Location pop-up menu to specify where to search.
The pop-up menu will list all your local drives and removable media.
• If you want to limit the search to certain folders, choose “Select Search Path” and
select the desired folder in the dialog that opens.
The search will include the selected folder and all subfolders. Note also that
folders you have recently selected using the “Select Search Path” function will
appear on the pop-up menu, allowing you to quickly select them again.
4. Click the Search button.
The search is started and the Search button is labeled Stop – click this to cancel
the search if needed.
When the search is finished, the files found are listed to the right.
• To audition a file, select it in the list and use the playback controls to the left (Play,
Stop, Pause, and Loop).
If Auto Play is activated, selected files are automatically played back.
• To import a file into the Pool, double-click on it in the list or select it and click the
Import button.
5. To close the search pane, click the Search button on the toolbar again.
Extended Search functionality
Apart from the search criterion Name, additional search filters are available. The
Extended Search options allows for a very detailed search, helping you to master even
the largest sound database.
To use them, proceed as follows:
1. Click the Search button on the toolbar.
The Search pane is displayed in the lower part of the Pool window.
2. Move the mouse pointer over the “Name” text to the right of the name field and
click on the arrow that appears.
3. The extended search pop-up menu opens.
It contains six options determining which search criterion is displayed above the
Location field (Name, Size, Bitsize, Channels, Sample Rate, or Date), as well as
the Add Filter and Presets submenus.
The search criteria have the following parameters:
- Name: partial names or wildcards (*)
- Size: Less than, More than, Equal, Between (two values), in seconds, minutes,
hours and bytes
- Bitsize (resolution): 8, 16, 24, 32
- Channels: Mono, Stereo and from 3 to 16
Move the mouse pointer over the “Name” text to the
right of the name field and click…
…to show the extended search
pop-up menu.