Sorry, I tried to find a previous post on this subject matter, but I can’t seem to see any. I know I’m probably about the 100th guy to ask this, but…
Is it possible to add Custom Samples for the Noise Utility?!?!
You cannot add them from within Pigments as you can with samples in the Sample Engine. However, you can add them in your File manager ie create a folder eg User, add the samples and they will be available when you restart Pigments. I am on a mac and the Utility Engine noises are stored in Library/Arturia/Samples/Pigments/Factory/__Noises. Windows will probably follow a similar path.
It would make sense if this were possible in the interface - maybe a feature request?
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Yeah, I have discovered this workaround myself, not long after posting this thread. I’ve tried all sorts of things with folder aliases/shortcuts and symbolic links, none of it would work. Samples have to physically be inside the __Noises folder, sadly
It’ll be simple enough to add the feature, so I don’t know why they just don’t do it. As it’s actually a little “dangerous” adding our stuff in with theirs. it’s entirely possible a simple update or reinstall could delete them altogether. That said, we just need to make sure we keep a backup copy somewhere safe.
I guess these kind of solutions are temporary since they write to an Arturia Factory directory. There might be a future update from Arturia that overwrites that directory, for instance to bring new content, while users are supposed to add their content to user directories. Hence, after a Pigments update, the next time you open a preset of yours that used that sample, Pigments wont’ find it. That’s why it’s better to have an option for user samples from within the GUI - a feature request
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Yeah, that’s why there is really a need for a proper implementation. Though, I would suggest keeping backup of your “custom” files so you can quickly and easily copy them back to the factory folder if they get overwritten by an update.