FXpansion Guru 1.5 - Manual (Page 7)

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Browser
The Browser is now significantly faster and can be driven entirely from the keyboard. We’ve
made loads of little workflow enhancements like the PlusFX and PlusMIX controls, so you can
now selectively preserve or overload your pad tweaks and mixer effects when loading loops or
kits. Double clicking a browser tab now opens that tab as a folder in Finder/Explorer, and drag-
ging an OS folder to the browser sets the current tab to that location.
In the Pads browser, we’ve added a volume control for auto-preview, and support for multiple
selection so you can drag multiple samples to the pads or layers in one go. CTRL + click to pick
single drums for multiple selection, or SHIFT + click to pick a whole range of drums in one go.
Dragging from the browser to the Pads will load the samples across multiple pads; dragging
from the browser to the Pad Editor will load the samples across multiple layers in the current
pad.
The Pads browser also now shows *.HIT files, and you can also Save a HIT in to the browser. A
HIT contains all the settings for a pad -- up to 8 layers, pad edit effects, etc., plus the samples if
need be.
Favourites is back -- click the ‘*’ in the browser to go to the favourites page for the current tab. In
normal (non-favourites) mode, shift + click a folder in the left-hand pane to add it to the favour-
ites list; in favourites mode, shift + clicking a listed folder will remove it from the favourites list.
The PlusFX and PlusMIX controls are somewhat equivalent to the “Preserve pad effects set-
tings when importing loops” option in GURU v.0, but are quicker to use and can be applied
more widely. When “+FX” is disabled, any Pad Edit / Layer Edit settings you’ve changed in the
current kit will be preserved when the new samples are loaded; when enabled, they’ll be reset
or overwritten. Similarly with “+MIX”:- when disabled, your Aux and Mix effects for the engine will
be preserved; when enabled, they’ll be reset or overwritten.