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Choose where Nearfield looks for samples

Set your User Library and the other folders that hold samples.

Steps

  1. Open the Folders screen from Settings: press “Open the folder list”.
  2. Set “Your User Library”.
  3. Add folders under “Other places to look”.

More about this

Nearfield only reads the folders under “Other places to look”. It writes nothing into them.

Samples that arrive from a share are filed in your User Library, in a folder named for the sender.

Related

  • Find untracked workUntracked sample folders and lone Sets.
  • File samples that arrivedChoose which shared samples go into your library.
  • SamplesFind where a sample is used, sort your packs, and find duplicates.
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