am i right in thinking Alchemy cannot bundle (my own)samples when saving a preset? i thought there were two options to save presets, and one of those embeded the samples into the preset file....and related, its the same for .sfz files, basically its a txt file and you have to have the wavs for it to work?


if this is so ive just wasted a week of my time

Hi Krim,

The samples are always separate from the actual preset file but if you use "Save Consolidated" on the File menu the presets + WAV + AAZ files will be saved in the same folder.

The SFZ files would need to be moved (to the preset folder) manually, as Alchemy only uses them for loading samples.

Does that save your weeks work?

Peace,
Andy.

no, but it saves me wasting any more time on them. I dont want my wav files accessible, so i wont be making them for Alchemy or in sfz format.

thanks for the reply.

one other point...you can only load one global sfz file?

not one in each osc slot...?

So what you really want is a monolithic (binary) format that contains / protects the preset + sample data in one file?


If you put the SFZ files in Alchemy/Samples/User/... you can access them per source from the Load Audio menu, or you can use Import Audio to load SFZ per source from anywhere on disk.

Peace,
Andy.

yes, i have other synths/samplers that do that so i'll stick with those.



ok, thats good to know, thanks.

Kriminal, I don't know if this matters to you, but I won't buy a soundset unless I can get to the samples. I do a fair amount of my own sound design, so the samples are at least as important to me as the sounds you might program from them. I don't know how this fits in to your business model, but take it for what it's worth to you.

i can see your point, im prob the same, but im also very wary of having the source material easliy accessible.