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Library Window

Audio Design Desk comes with 5 resizable and 2 detachable windows to adapt to your workspace.

 

The Library Window (Yellow) contains 4 tabs:

  • Library
  • Search
  • Replace
  • Browse

This window can be closed/opened by pressing (⌘1). You can also dock/undock the window by pressing (⌥⌘1) or going to the View Menu and selecting “Docked Library”

 

Library Tab:

The Library Tab contains access to: your library, your installed sound packs, your saved presets, ADD’s playlists, and your personal playlists.

“Your Library” is where your sounds, projects, exports, bounces, clips, and videos are stored.

 

Sound Packs:

Inside the Sound Packs are folders where you can see how Audio Design Desk sounds are organized. Selecting a sound pack allows you to view the folder structure within the sound pack. 

The Folder Structure is: 

  • Sub Category: Element (which is typically a single sound) and Stem (typically a longer region with multiple sounds).
  • Type: describes the basics of the sound. For example, “Transportation” is a “Type”.
  • Sub Type: gives more detail on the exact sound such as “Drive By Car”. 

Organizing files in this way gives you the ability to quickly find sounds and helps you learn the general organization of sounds for future searching.

 

Next to sound packs you can click the “Diagonal Arrow” to open the Sound Pack Manager.

For more information on sound packs see Sound Pack Manager

 

My Library:

My Library is where you can view, find, and access files related to your projects that are saved within the top-most ADD folder. Here you can find:

  • All Autosaved projects
  • Your recent Bounces
  • Any created Clip
  • Project Exports
  • All of your imported sounds under Library
  • All saved Projects
  • Any created Stacks
  • All of your downloaded Stock Media from the Browse Tab
  • All imported Videos used in saved projects

You can also access our Frame.io window here which is detailed below.

 

Frame.io:

If you are a Frame.io user, you can now use their service within Audio Design Desk so you never need to leave the ADD timeline to upload files, download files, create version stacks, or receive notes.

**If you are not a Frame.io user, contact us to receive 60 days of their service for free at info@add.app.**

To get started, first log into Frame.io from the Library Tab by selecting “Frame.io” then selecting “Login” at the top of the Frame.io window.

 

You will need to provide your login credentials and give ADD the ability to access all files and information from Frame.io

 

Once you’ve logged in, you will see all of your Frame.io projects represented in folders where you can easily navigate to the project you would like to work on.  

One you’ve found your project, you can preview any video by pressing the spacebar, or you can double click the video file, and ADD will download it and place it in the timeline. 

 

By default, ADD imports the 720p file, but you can right click on any file to download higher or lower resolution versions. 

 

Once you’ve finished adding sound to your Frame.io video, you can Upload the video back to Frame.io. To do so, set your IN/Out Points on your project and press ⌘B to Bounce.

Select “Export Video” and “Upload to Frame.io”. Then click “Bounce” and ADD will upload the video with audio to your Frame.io project stack.

 

If a stack doesn’t exist yet, ADD will create one.

 

Alternatively, you can Upload your work to the correct Frame.io project by (Right-Clicking) on the project or stack and selecting “Upload to Here.”

A drop-down menu will appear where you can select the file you’d like to upload, and the upload will begin. 

 

If at any point, you’d like to refresh the comments from your collaborators, (Right-Click) the project and select “Fetch Comments…”. Frame-accurate comments will appear in your timeline.

 

If you would like to review a project on the Frame.io website, select “Open on Frame.io.” 

 

You can also open Frame.io in a browser by clicking the Frame.io logo at the top right of the Frame.io window.

And if you ever need to refresh your Frame.io projects shown in the Frame.io window, click the “Circling Arrows”.

 

ADD Playlists:

ADD contains several pre-made playlists for you to add sounds to as well as gives you the ability to create and manager your own playlists. You can tell Audio Design Desk to only use sounds from a specific playlist, which is especially useful when you are working on multiple projects and have specific sonic identities for each. 

Our list of pre-made playlists are:

  • Blacklist: For sounds that you don’t want to appear in dynamic replace results at any point regardless of projects (Not every sound is perfect). If you (Right Click) on a sound, select “Add to Playlist”, then “Blacklist”, Audio Design Desk will know not to use that sound in the future.

 

  • Clips: Where clips created in the Region Editor are stored. Clips are small reference files of audio files where edits and effects can be applied so you can take one sound and create alternates without bouncing new audio files. Clips can be assigned to triggers. You can search for your clips in this window, and all keywords are stored in the “Keywords” drop-down. 

 

  • Favorites: Where all of your favorite sounds are stored. (Right Click) on a file to favorite it or click the “Star” icon in the Sound Editor. Favorite sounds are more likely to appear in dynamic search results

 

  • Latest Import: Where the most recent imported sounds appear. This is useful when you want to quickly import sounds and immediately find them or apply them to a trigger. 

 

  • Project Blacklist ( ⌥X ): For sounds that you don’t want to appear in dynamic replace results specifically in the project you are working in. Some sounds work great in one project but don’t fit another. If you (Right Click) on a sound, select “Add to Playlist”, then “Project Blacklist”, Audio Design Desk will know not to use that sound in your current project.

 

  • Project Favorites ( ⌥F ): Where your favorite sounds within the open project are stored. This is especially useful with repeated sound design elements or when you’re auditioning music to video and want to quickly create a “Selects” folder.

 

  • Session: Where you can find every sound and every rendered stack in your session. This is useful when you want to reuse specific sounds. 

 

Your Playlists:

You can create custom playlists for your own sounds and sounds within ADD sound packs. To create a playlist, (Right-Click) “Your Playlists” and select “New Playlist”. Or press (⌥⌘N).

To add a sound to a playlist, (Right-Click) on a sound in the library or in the timeline, select “Add to Playlist”, then select the name of your custom playlist. Or drag the sound from a pool into the playlist. 

 

Search Tab:

The Search Tab helps you quickly search for the sound(s) you’re looking for. Working very similarly to the Replace Tab, it differs in the sense that it focuses on finding sounds rather than refining the pool of sounds ADD can pull from.

 

Find sounds by typing a keyword in the search browser or selecting keywords from the Keywords drop down menu which shows all keywords that are in the current pool of sounds you can select from. This is helpful when you aren’t sure what word you’re looking for. 

 

“AND / OR” tells Audio Design Desk if you’d like to find sounds that have ANY of the keywords or ALL of the keywords in your search. 

 

“Reset” clears the search browser.

 

You can refine your search using the “Intensity” and “Complexity” parameters. 

  • Intensity: How strong the sound(s) are.
  • Complexity: How many layers the sound(s) have.

Click on the circles 1-5 correlating with how intense/complex you wish the sound(s) to be. Only sounds with the intensity/complexity rating you selected will appear in the search pool.

 

You can also search for sounds by clicking on the buttons in the search window. These selections work like a flow chart opening other options for you to select based on what’s selected higher up the chain.

 

Source decides where Audio Design Desk is searching from.

Category, Subcategory, Type, and Subtype selections provide an alternate way to search for the type(s) of sound(s) you’re looking for.

 

Once the Search Pool is loaded, select an audio file and press (Spacebar) to preview it. When you’re first using ADD, sounds will auto play when selected. This can be changed in the General Tab of the Preferences Menu by deselecting “Auto Play on Selection”. The slider to the left of the audio waveform controls the volume of the preview player.

If you (Double Click) on the file, the Region Editor will open.

 

To place the selected sound(s) in the timeline, click the sound(s) you want and press (⇧Return). If a sound in the timeline is already selected, this will replace the timeline sound with the search pool sound. Alternatively you can press (⌥⇧Return) to place a sound without replacing the selected sound.

 

Replacing One Sound With Another: There will be times when you place one type of sound and want to replace it with another type of sound. For example, you may place sneaker footsteps on concrete and then realize they should be heel footsteps. In those cases, replace comes in very handy. 

  1. Select the region or regions to be replaced by clicking or shift clicking on them. 
  2. Go to the “Search” or “Replace” tab.
  3. In the keyword browser, type “Footsteps, concrete, heels”.
  4. All the results will be displayed.
  5. Audition the footsteps with (Spacebar) and select the ones you like.
  6. (Right Click) and select “Send to Timeline” or press (⇧-Return).
  7. All the footsteps will be replaced with the new ones you selected.       

 

Replace Tab:

The Replace Tab adjusts the way Audio Design Desk is to replace sounds. You can use this tab to broaden or narrow replacement parameters, search for sounds that can augment, or add sounds to your project. For more information go to The Replace Tab.

Find sounds by typing a keyword into the search bar or select keywords from the “Keywords” drop-down. Select “And/ Or” to indicate if you want results with all keywords in the search bar or with any keyword in the search bar. Or use the drop down menus to select commonly used keywords to easily replace sounds with new sounds in the right feel or genre.

 

**Remember to “Reset” and clear the Replace Tab when you are done using it to prevent any errors moving forward with your project.**

 

Browse Tab:

The Browse Tab is an effective way to utilize your current stock sound library subscriptions within ADD. Here you can add your subscriptions and download sounds/video directly into ADD as well as collaborate with other creators and artists.

For more information, please go to The Browse Tab.

 

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