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@EvilDragon the situation with some of the Sample Logic libraries is a little different. There is a single .nki and the UI has a custom browser built-in, with multiple levels for which patches can be browsed:
- At the highest level, browsing patches is basically the same as Snapshots - they recall the status of all controls in the UI, including what sound source is chosen for each of the four layers, the status of the step sequencer + modulators page, and a global set of effects. No issue there, as a saved Snapshot can recall everything that the built-in browser can. Think of these as if they were "multis" in a Korg workstation keyboard - four individual presets with an automatable X-Y pad to mix between them, routed through a global effects rack and with an array of step sequencers that can be routed to any destination among the four sources.
- The next level down, however, is where you can browse from categorized lists for the sound sources for each of the four layers in a preset. These are not just a sample map; each source brings with it complex modulation, tuning, effects + filter settings, etc. Think of these as if they were the individual presets that make up a multi in a Korg workstation - they each have two sample maps and a single shared set of filters and modulators, and a small selection of effects like distortion, saturation, etc.
- Then there are browsers for the individual settings files for the step sequencer + modulators page, and another for the global effects rack.
All of the items that appear in each of those levels of browser are present in the library folders as .nka files (are these "array" files or what? I dunno.), but renaming / moving these files is not reflected in the custom browsers in the UI. And for all except the highest level, it doesn't make sense to use Snapshots to store them since the custom browser lets you pick elements for just one of the four layers at a time, without disturbing your carefully-set-up other three layers.
You DO have the ability to save a custom edit of these elements to disc, but they wind up as .nka files in Users>Documents>Gamelan instead of within the actual Gamelan library folder itself - which is good from the standpoint of updates being pushed, since installing an update to the library will not wipe your custom-saved items - but they do not appear in the custom browser within the UI. You can only load and save them from disc using little buttons in the UI and dealing with standard open/save dialogs, but not browse them within the normal tagged custom browser, and you can't edit / rename / delete / move the stock items which do show up in the browser.
So you can just take the time to roll through all of the factory items and save out your favorites, but you won't be able to use the slick browser that Sample Logic went to so much trouble to implement, and won't be able to use next + previous buttons, etc. Not a total disaster, but an irritation nonetheless.
It appears that the custom browser is populated with a list of the factory .nka files, but is not actually scanning their names from disc, which is a little weird - but maybe I'm just not doing whatever needs to be done to force the instrument to re-scan the directories containing the factory .nka files and re-populate its custom browser lists with the contents of those folders.
If I knew the secret to that, I could really mess up the instrument by removing / renaming / moving the factory .nka files to show only my favorites. Risky, but you know me... Of course one could make a .zip of the factory items before running amok so you could get back to the stock load after you ruin everything, and of course your newly small-ified list will be ignoring gigabytes of sample content which you can't eliminate, so it's not like you'll be saving disc space, only reducing clutter and unwanted items in the custom browsers, and allowing for user-specified names for those items while still having them show in the custom browser instead of forcing you to manually load them one at a time from disc.
Not the end of the world, but one of those things I wish I knew how to control.