Note: This Window can only be opened if you have registered sy.factory.
The SY Library Data Window is made visible by ensuring that the View SY Library option in the Window Menu is checked.
This Child Window is a special View that shows the contents of the SY Library.
Like the standard Table View, you can select the view of type of objects that you wish to view (e.g. Voices, Performances, etc.), which includes Files and Authors that are stored in the Database.
The window can be configured to be either a Tree or a Table view. The Table view is recommended because filtering capabilities are available, which are described below.
The following columns can be found in the Library table. Not all columns are available in a table view, depending on the type of data being viewed. For example, only Voices have the Type Column.
Category | The Category of an Object. Not all Objects have a defined Category |
Name | The Name of an Object. Note that this name can be up to 50 characters long, so you can provide a more meaningful name for an object within the Library (the original name is preserved for when the object is copied from the Library). |
Type | The type of the object (e.g. the type of voice). Not all Objects have a defined Type. |
Synthesizer | The synthesizer that this object is for: either SY77, TG77 or SY99. This allows you to filter or sort by synthesizer type. |
Rating | Each Object object can be assigned a rating, from unrated to five stars. Filtering on this column will allow you to quickly find you favourite items. |
Comment | Each object can have a comment associated with it of up to 100 characters. For example, you could use this field to contain keywords that you use to describe a sound's character in more detail. This could help you to define a filter to search for a sound. |
Author | You can define the Author for each Object. This field defaults to "Unknown" when objects are added to the Library. You can setup sy.factory to prompt you for an Author name when a new file is being added to the database. |
Source | The name of the source file that an Object was copied from when it was added to the Library. |
You can sort a table by a column by clicking on a column heading in the table header. for example to sort voices by name, then click on the Name column heading. The sorting will cycle through the following states each time you click a column header:
If you check the Automatically Export Selected Item option, then when you select a Voice it is automatically exported to the SY Voice Edit Buffer.
This, for example, allows you use the cursor keys to move though the library Voices and have them automatically exported to the Edit Buffer without having to do anything else. Please note however, that with this option enabled, then the scrolling is slowed down. Don't forget that you can double click on a Voice to export it.
The database table provides a very comprehensive filtering capability, which allows you to filter on any column or combination of columns. For example, you can filter on voices with a name that contains the phrase "Fred", combined with a category filter for "pads", combined with a type filter for AWM voices, and finally filter for those which have a three star rating.
You can enter a filter for each column using the filter header that is above the table column names.
Table filtering works in conjunction with table sorting
A filter with a grey background is restricted to filtering by items that you can select from the drop down list. For example, a rating value can only be unrated or rated between 1 and 5 stars
A filter with a yellow background allows you to enter a PERL Regular Expression string that acts as a filter. Consider the following PERL examples for filtering by name:
That is just an overview of how you can use regular expressions for filtering. More details for how you can form regular expression pattons can be found on the PERL Regular Expression Page
The drop down list for a Perl Regular Expression filter provides a history of the search terms entered during the session.
At the bottom of the table is a toolbar with the following controls:
Enable Filter | Turns the filter on or off. |
Configure Filter | Brings up the Configure Filter dialog box allowing you to control the default behaviour of how the Rating, Comment, Author and Source File columns are filtered. |
Reset Filter | Resets the filter. |
The Filter control also shows you how many Objects out of the total available are being shown by the filter.
When the Configure Filter Dialog button is selected, the following dialog appears that allows you to control the behaviour of the filter for specific columns.
The default state of the filters can be configured on the Library Preferences tab in the Preferences Dialog.