Importing New Sounds

LucitePool wrote on 12/17/2022, 10:25 PM

Hey all, I bought Magix Music Maker along with a ton of different loop files from Producer Planet. I'm gathering that if you don't buy soundpools directly from the Magix shop it's kind of a pain to organize them. Does anyone have tips on how to make this more manageable? The best I've heard is just dragging them from file explorer directly into the editor, which is incredibly tedious when you have hundreds and hundreds of sound files. I tried the trick where you just plop a copied BPM.inf file into a folder and place the files in subfolders with names matching instrument names like "Drums," but no luck, my files won't show up as Soundpools. Anyone have any good ideas here? Am I missing something obvious?

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LucitePool wrote on 12/17/2022, 11:15 PM

Alright I was able to do this but it was a very tedious process:

  1. Create a new subfolder in your soundpools folder which will contain your new loops.
  2. Copy into this new subfolder the following files from a different, working soundpool:
    1. BPM.inf
    2. cover_128x128.png
    3. cover_600x600.png
    4. description.xml
    5. properties.json
  3. Edit the BMP.inf file.
    1. Under Tempo, change BPM=### to the BPM of your new loops.
    2. Under Harmony Table, make sure there are the same amount of Samples as your new loops. (The notes don't seem to matter.)
  4. Edit the description.xml file.
    1. Under the <loops> section, there should be one entry for each of your new loops. I found the easiest way to do this was to use Excel to create the loop descriptions, then concat them together to be easily copied and pasted into the .xml file.
  5. Create a sub-subfolder in the new subfolder with an instrument name matching the convention that Music Maker already uses. (Drums, Bass, Brass, etc.) Place your loops into this folder.
  6. Now use the "add new soundpools" function and your loops will show up.
Cloudglow wrote on 12/18/2022, 8:56 AM

That's very nice. You can also browse the samples with Music Maker's own browser. You can also set the default folder for it, so everytime you open it, it goes straight to your samples folder. Better than using Windows' windows.