I have some older Acid Loop collections that won't show up in Soundpools - Help?

DharmaGeek wrote on 11/12/2010, 3:38 AM

I have just been learning Musik Maker 16 this week - I successfully loaded one Acid Loops collection - but i have some older ones - one of which is a a Native American collection which i want to use very much - but i have tried automaticaly loading it - it acts like it is loading - the Soundpool screen blinks like it refreshed - but it does not show the files.

 

And yes - i tried manually putting the files out there in the directory - they are there now - but still a no show.

 

Any ideas?  They are wav filkes, by the way - The folders are read only , but the files are write enabled - i checked and the others already loaded with the program are that way as well....

 

I'm going to see if i can load the rest of my AcidLoops.  Any help would be appreciated.

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nihon94 wrote on 11/12/2010, 6:46 AM

Hi,

 

It is important to understand the difference between Soundpool and normal audio file in acceptable formats. Copied from MMM 16 pdf help

Import: WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG Vorbis, WMA, QuickTime
MIDI, CD-A , BMP, JPG, AVI, MXV, WMV
Export: WAV, AIFF, MP3, OGG Vorbis, WMA, QuickTime ,
MIDI, CD-A, BMP, JPG, AVI, MXV, WMV, MP3surround

 

We can not add the above audio as Soundpool unless they are in the Music Maker program or in extra Soundpool DVD selling separately. If we open Soundpool DVD we will see in each Genre(style)Ini text file that shows BMP. Each Genre BPM is different therefore, when we buy audio files they do not contain informaiton as Soundpool DVD.

 

But what we should do to add in Library, only we can add manually by browsing from File manage/Cd Rom/My Documents etc.

By doing various experiments I have added non soundpool audio easily but note, if BMP is different from the Genre using it might give some glitch noise.

Here you will find a link to a question from there you can choose any method suits you

http://www.magix.info/us/soundpool-problem-and-solution-faq-for-mmm-16-premium.online-training.70780.html

 

Thank you

nihon94

DharmaGeek wrote on 11/19/2010, 12:40 AM

Thanks for your help nihon94  !

 

For everyone's benefit - I did also get a response from Tech Support - here is their response:

 

Thank you for your message.

One thing right away: You will definitely be able to use your existing Acid content CDs in conjunction with Music Maker, as long as the actual audio files on them are in a non-proprietary standard audio format, which I understand they are. You might, however, not be able to index them via the soundpool manager, which, strictly speaking, is just designed for Magix content and relies on specific file and directory structures, which third party audio content doesn't necessarily comply with. However, if you switch the program from the "Soundpools" tab in the lower part of the screen to the "File manager" tab, you will have a pure file browser that you can use to browse to the location of your Acid audio files and bring them into the program. This part doesn't depend on any special directory structures like the database soundpool manager, which is basically just an additional tool to make managing the soundpools easier.

I hope this information helps.

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Ralf Hentschel

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