User Manual

SONG FILE HANDLING
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1. Select “Song Self-Contain Settings...” from the File menu.
The “Song Self-Contain Settings” dialog appears, listing all samples and REX files used in the song:
2. Tick the checkboxes to the left of the “Name” column for the (non-ReFill) files you want to contain in the song.
D You can use the “Check All” button to tick all checkboxes in one go.
Similarly, the “Uncheck All” button unchecks all checkboxes.
3. When you have marked the desired sounds, click “OK” to exit the dialog.
The next time you save your Song, the specified sounds will be automatically included in the Song file.
! Note that a self-contained song file will be larger than the original song file. However, samples included in a
self-contained song are automatically compressed by approximately 50% of their original size. Since the com-
pression is lossless, this does not in any way affect the sound quality.
“Un-self-containing” a Song
If you have opened a self-contained song which contains one or several sounds embedded in the song file, you may
want to extract these sounds and make the song refer to them on disk as usual. This is done in the following way:
1. Select “Song Self-Contain Settings...” from the File menu.
The “Song Self-Contain Settings” dialog appears.
2. Locate the sounds you want to extract from the song file, and deactivate their checkboxes (or click the “Un-
check All” button).
3. Click “OK” to close the dialog.
Now, Record will check for each “extracted” sound file whether it is available (at its original, stored location) or not.
• If the program finds the sound file at the location stored in the song, it is simply removed from the song file,
and the original file reference path is used.
This would be the case if you made the song self-contained yourself, and un-self-contain it on your own computer
(provided that you haven’t removed the original sound files from disk since you made the song self-contained).