I’d like a way to drag and drop the order of my folders…maybe alphabetical, maybe my random choice, or maybe by the decreasing number of samples in that folder.
It would also be cool to “see” the number of samples in each folder as a number to the right of the name or in a separate “column to the right of the name…?
I agree, I’m wanting this too. So I made a suggestion a few weeks back through their official Support page. There’s no guarantee other than you can be sure that the right people see your request.
Hi Everyone. Waves seem slow to update this issue in Cosmos. An excellent filing and sample admin tool. It has seriously cleaned up my Sample management game. But the fact they missed the rearrangement issue before release is a little disappointing.
Yes!!! This is a necessity
Not to mention, sidebar resizing.
I realise Cosmos was built to help us break out of our habits and help us discover sounds we may not have otherwise used. Many times you do want a specific sound and the folders themselves act like a filter.
For example, if we’re looking for an 808 bass sound it’s because we specifically need an 808 bass sound, or something like it. If we know we can find a few of them in our “Trap” folder than we’re going to want to select that folder, effectively filtering everything else out. Not having some kind of ordered list potentially makes the task of finding this folder harder and slows down the workflow.
Cosmos will come to its own if we can find the folder, then the sound we want quickly. From there we can elect to use Cosmos for what it was designed to do and use this sound as a basis for finding similar types of sounds, but may work better for our given needs.
We can still do this. But by not being able to organise our folders or even see entire folder names can really slow down the process.
Waves please ! make the options of the sidebar a bit better… 2 level of hierarchy, reorder, drag and drop folders, rename stuff like that would really improve our workflow
I’ve been requesting something similar for a while myself.
I think they expected we’re rely largely on the “constellation” map to discover new sounds. The thing is, alot of the times you have specific sound in your head you want to try and match closely, or maybe you want a vanilla genre specific sound just to get the part down, but explore the idea of using similar but different sounds a bit later.
In both these cases we have a specific idea of what we’re looking for and many times we would know where to find it by navigating our sample folders in. more conventional way. It’s just quicker to get something down. The sound discovery thing is still useful, but it can also get in the way. Updating the way Cosmos handles folders would go a long way to help mitigate the problem.
Yeah I have a very specific workflow implying multiple music genre ; and for each I have : [drums / ethnic percussions / traditional instruments / electronic instruments]
I use this system a bit like filters in XO and having a two folders hierarchy would make my life easier… as 22 folders at the root, each time I start a new project I have a lot to switch on and off to filters the type of sound I want to demo into a new idea…
I use the same exact workflow, with one shots into XO (a very specific set of oneshots - I remove any long sample and keep only the small sample that could be useful in a sort of enhanced drum kits I would say) and loops into Waves Cosmos , and for Vocals I preview in Ableton (not on the grid) with a special routing that let me audition dry vocals into delay and reverb directly into an audio track. the idea sparks quite a long time ago and I think I write something on elektronauts onto that workflow idea I had back in the time)
That serves as my kickstarters/colors finder and then I let my heart and mind continue the draft with midi, recordings, collaborations… etc.
(but this workflow force me to split any sample collection by music genre, and by category to filters which make at the start and for any sample collection then, quite some work actually) but I enjoy the results it provide in my way of thinking, working….
It can be very much like an artist experimenting and mixing up a few custom colors for a specific look and feel. You want to be able to find your basics quickly and you also want a simple process to try out custom ideas without a whole bunch of equipment getting in your way.
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