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A hit report will appear after each keyword search. Keep an eye on the hit numbers
that appear as you do your searches. These will help you learn what is available in the
library. Here is an example. A search of “rifle AND automatic” will bring up:
<RIFLE> 192 files under selected directory
<AUTOMATIC> 216 files under selected directory
<RIFLE AND AUTOMATIC> 111 files under selected directory
By looking at the hits screen, you will see that there are 111 automatic rifles in the li-
brary but it is handy to know there are a total of 192 rifles of all sorts and that the word
automatic shows up in 216 files.
If you do a search of “automatic NOT gun” then only 8 entries show up including the
“automatic bowling machines” . The hit reports can really help you keep track of what
is available.
Playing
Once you have some sounds narrowed down, you can drag and drop them to the
MIDI Mixer or the Distributed Wave utility and start playing them via MIDI with your
keyboard. You can trigger these sounds with your sequencer and synch up a fairly
complete sound design cue in no time. You can play the sounds live into a hard disk
system. This can be done synched to picture to allow you to be an electronic foley artist
or you can use QuickSound to help find sound effects and play them into the hard disk
system and sync them on screen the traditional way. Even with the traditional way, the
ability to rapidly play certain instruments and sound effects in real time from a MIDI
keyboard is much faster and better sounding than positioning the sounds one at a time
on screen. Longer sounds like the ambiences are better suited to on screen positioning
in a hard disk environment. Even so, the QuickSound engine will speed up the process
in hunting these sounds down.
QuickSound keeps track of your sound files when you install the program and as
you use it. It constantly tracks, scans, and records files on your hard drives to an interac-
tive database. As long as you have the file monitor active, there is no need to manually
update the QuickSound database. If you do disable the file monitor, possibly for trou-
bleshooting reasons, you will need to manually refresh the database with any recent
changes.
File Types
The QuickSound file monitor keeps track of the following file types:
.GIG (GigaStudio Instrument files)
.GSP (GigaStudio Session Performance files)