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CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual Page 229
USING THE TAG DIRECTORY SYSTEM
On the CD3000XL, it is possible to ‘tag’ files. This is much the same as placing it in a special
sub-directory. In this way, certain files in a partition can be categorised according to type or any
other category you wish. For example, you may have a situation where all basses from all
volumes in a partition have been tagged BASS and all strings tagged ORCHESTRAL. All vocal
sounds may have been tagged VOICE. In this way, it is possible to access sounds much more
easily. For example, using one of the above examples, if you want to load some bass sounds,
instead of scrolling through volumes and partitions, you may simply select the BASS tag to
view, select and load just those sounds.
Sounds, however, can belong to several tags. For example, you may have a series of files
tagged BASS which may include ALL bass sounds from electric bass to slap bass, synth bass,
bass vocal, orchestral string bass, bass sax and flute, etc.. However, the tag SYNTH BASS
would only contain those bass sounds of a synthetic origin whilst E. BASS would only contain
electric bass (even though those exact same sounds exist in the BASS tag). Acoustic basses
may be tagged AC BASSES or something similar, etc.. In this way, a flexible disk management
system exists for easy access and loading of sounds.
But before you can select a tagged file, you must first mark the files.
To access the tagging function, press the key. This will display a screen such as this:
To tag the files, simply move the cursor to the appropriate file and press . As you press
, you will see that the file has an asterisk placed next to it thus:
This indicates that this file is marked in the currently selected tag.
To select files from another volume to mark, simply move the cursor to the field and select
the next volume and repeat the above procedure. Eventually, you should have marked all the
files you want for the currently selected tag and, in future, when you want to load a particular
type of sound, you only need to select the appropriate tag. To use the example above, if you
subsequently want to load one or more bass sounds, instead of scrolling though volumes,
simply select the BASS tag to view all bass files, select the appropriate file(s) and press
and/or to load the sound(s). It is worth going though your library and spending some
time tagging them all as this will save you time in the future when you are looking for files to
load.