DJMosquito, your response prompted me to do what I should have done in the first place: look at one of the Soundpools from Magix. It turns out that you need to include specific information in a specific format. A couple of things are obvious having to do with pitch and tempo. But there's also a small binary file in each folder and subfolder with a very long name that begins with "_msi_keyfile". You probably can't generate those without knowing some trade secrets.

Thanks.

Hi,

Here are some past threads about the subject.

The first one has a link in one of my messages.

The second one has a few links. Some may cross each other.

Look at the links.

As far as I know, you can ignore the "_msi_keyfile."

You will see that sometimes the "Soundpools" are not Soundpools in the sense that they show up in MMM under Soundpools, with style, instrument, loop and with different keys. They may just be different parts of a song made up of separate files with different instruments, and not in a constant key but are multi-key.

When you make your own, you need to have several elements to get them to show up, so follow and existing structure.

You need a BPM.inf file in the folder where sub-folders of instruments is located. This is simply a text file that you can open with Notepad. Copy one and modify as needed.

Then you need to go under:

C:\ProgramData\MAGIX\Common\Synonyms

and modify Styles.ini and Instruments.ini to add in your title of style and any instruments that are not already defined. There are also icons ini files that you can play around with.

There may be one more, but I don't recall if or which. I think that there was one called InstrumentSynonyms.ini, but it may have changed in the latest version of MMM.

Anyway, take a look at an existing Soundpool, the names of everything and match up what you see in the ini files, and you will soon catch on as to how to set up your own.

Let us know how you make out.

Warning! Before modifying any of these files, make a backup copy in case you mess up somthing.