Welcome

Welcome to SampleSearch™, the quick and easy way to access and maintain your Macintosh-based sound library. This chapter tells you about SampleSearch™, what equipment you need, and what you should know to use SampleSearch™.

WHAT IS SAMPLESEARCH ?

SampleSearch™ is a quick search and retrieve file manager for the Macintosh. It has been designed specifically with users of Digidesign SampleCell in mind, although it functions equally well with any application which uses many files.

SampleSearch™ has three main functions
• Fast search of mounted drives
Given a set of criteria (file name, file type etc.) SampleSearch™ can search all mounted drives for a complete list of matches which is displayed in a really useful full screen list.
• File Manipulation
Having found a list of files, SampleSearch™ allows renaming, deleting and moving of files as well as other functions for certain files (e.g Auditioning of Sample files, examination of the contents of Instrument files)
• Snapshot and Search of Unmounted Drives
SampleSearch™ can make snapshots of all your removable media, including CD-ROM, Optical and Syquest drives. Once a snapshot is made, SampleSearch™ treats it as if it were a mounted volume.

What You Need

SampleSearch is designed to run on any Macintosh with the following facilities:

• System 7.1
• Hard Drive
• 4MB of Ram

The following facilities are recommended

• System 7.5.1 or later
• Digidesign SampleCell II or I with v2 software
• Digidesign Audio card (Audiomedia I/II/LC, Sound Accelerator or ProTools)
• Apple Sound Manager 3.1
• Apple SCSI Manager 4.3.1

If you have the Apple Sound Manager 3.0, you are able to audition sounds through Digidesign audio cards at full quality, or interpretations at 8-bit quality and at 22KHz through the mac speaker (better quality with PPC or AV macs). Without Sound Manager 3.0, you cannot access Digidesign hardware directly and 16-bit audio samples played through the mac speaker will sound corrupted on 8-bit systems.