How to “bake” samples into instrument patches
Maybe this is common knowledge but I recently noticed some of my instrument rack patches had somehow baked the samples into the preset and didn’t require the wav files anymore.
After some experimenting I realized if you record samples without saving them (the new samples) in the file system they’re baked in automatically, but if you load in your samples to make an instrument then it requires the external samples.
However you can bake the preset samples into the patch if you
1) load any saved instrument rack preset w external file samples
2) save project with “save with samples” turned on
3) re-save your instrument rack preset
then the external samples can be deleted. This is most evident by the size of the YourDramboPatch.drmodule file increasing since samples are included but this makes exporting and importing a large instrument bank much easier since there’s no need to move any sample files to a correct place in drambos file structure
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This can be a good or bad thing since you don’t have access to all the loaded wavs anymore but also super easy to share a preset
Yeah I do wish there was more control over this, I actually had to redo my entire template for my live setup as it was getting full of samples that I couldn’t remove and saving larger and larger each time. Well organised external samples are easier to control.
Yea a make samples internal/external convert button on individual patches would be lovely
Ok so good question. How do you get the genie out of the bottle? Is there a way to open drmodule projects or rack presets (with internal samples) and see the sample files? Maybe there’s a way to unzip the project files? @rs2000
Not exactly. Audio is base64 encoded in linear format, no matter which source format it came from so it can make sense to keep the originals backed up. Save with samples is an easy way to send projects to other people, including patchstorage etc.