glitchrock-buddha wrote:Machinesworking wrote:
ProManager is a sample management tool for Kontakt-EXS-Reason etc. It cuts load times of samples to near lighting speed.
I don't quite understand the use of ProManager. Especially with Kontakt 4 having such efficient loading now...
All sample files consist generally of the actual audio and a file for the sampler that includes the path of the sample etc. What ProManager does that's entirely useful to me is allow you to say move your entire sample library to another disk and then redirect all the 'dependancies' to that library. So you open Live etc. and call up the song with Kontakt files from two computers ago and don't get a dialogue box asking you to find the files, they load like they always were on that disk.
Same goes for moving your entire library around, you can do it and not worry about fucking up dependancies. I have an older copy of EXSManager and it was so freaking useful this way, it will also search for duplicate files and erase the duplicates and again fix dependancies. Think about it, if you own Kontakt 2-3-4 you have a lot of duplicate files. That's all I can think of now, but it has other features that also pretty much rule. Personally I have a pretty convoluted sample library at this point, NI loaded K6 sample content into the Shared folder, other parts are in Documents, and still others are on other disks or in the respective song folders etc.
