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Finally, the files can be easily inserted into the project, by 
using drag & drop, by double-clicking or using the context 
menu options, see “Inserting the files into the project” on 
page 25.
The Define Locations section
When you open the MediaBay for the first time, a scan for 
media files is performed on your system. You specify which 
folders or directories you want to be included in the scan by 
activating/deactivating the checkboxes for the folders in the 
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Updating the display
You can update the display in two ways: by rescanning or 
by refreshing.
Rescanning
When you click the Rescan button, the selected folder is 
rescanned. If a folder contains a large number of media 
files, the scanning process may take some time. Use this 
function if you have made changes to the content of spe-
cific media folders and want to scan these folders again.
ÖYou can also rescan the selected folder by right-click-
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•To select the parent folder of the selected folder, click 
the “Browse Containing Folder” button.
•To remove a location from the pop-up menu, select it 
and click the “Remove Browse Location Definition” button.
•To show the files contained in the selected folder and 
any subfolders (without showing these subfolders), acti-
vate the Deep Results button.
When this button is deactivated, only the folders and files contained in 
the selected folder are shown.
The Results list
The Results...

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Setting up the Results list columns
For each media type, or for combinations of media types, 
you can specify the attribute columns that are displayed in 
the Results list. In most cases, you will probably only want 
to display a few main attributes in the Results list and use 
the Attribute Inspector to view the complete list of attribute 
values for the files.
Proceed as follows:
1.Select the media type (or combination of media types) 
that you want to make settings for.
2.Click the...

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ÖThe operators can also be used for Logical filtering 
with the “matches” condition selected, see “Applying a 
logical filter” on page 28.
The rating slider
Using the rating slider above the Results list, you can 
specify rating settings for your files, ranging from 1 to 5. 
This makes it possible to exclude certain files from the 
search according to their quality.
When you move the rating slider, the active rating filter is 
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Previewing files
When you have sufficiently narrowed down the list of files, 
you will want to preview individual files to find out which 
one to use in your project. This is done in the Previewer 
section.
Note that some MediaBay-specific Preferences affect the 
playback of media files, see “Preferences” on page 34. 
The elements visible in this section and their functions 
depend on the type of media file.
Previewing audio files
To preview an audio file, click the Play button. What...

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These methods will be described in the following sections.
Previewing presets via MIDI Input
MIDI input is always active, i. e. when a MIDI keyboard is 
connected to your computer (and set up properly), you 
can directly start playing the notes to preview the selected 
preset.
Previewing presets using a MIDI file
Proceed as follows:
1.On the Sequence Mode pop-up menu, select “Load 
MIDI File”.
2.In the file dialog that opens, navigate to the desired 
MIDI file, and click Open.
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•“Auto Play New Results Selection” works as for audio 
files, see above.
The Filters section
With the MediaBay, you can perform very refined file 
searches. You have two possibilities: Logical or Attribute 
Filtering.
Applying a logical filter
Logical filtering is similar to working with the Logical Edi-
tor, see the chapter “The Logical Editor, Transformer and 
Input Transformer” in the Operation Manual.
If you click the Logical button in the Filters section, you 
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Advanced text search
You can also perform very advanced text searches using 
boolean operators. Proceed as follows:
1.Select the desired location.
2.Activate Logical filtering by clicking on the Logical but-
ton at the top of the Filters section.
A condition line appears.
3.Select the desired attribute on the Attributes pop-up 
menu, or leave the setting on “Any Attribute”.
4.Make sure that the condition is set to “matches”.
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•Selected attribute values in the same column form an 
OR condition.
This means that files must be tagged according to either one or the other 
attribute value to be displayed in the Results list.
ÖNote that this is not true for the Character attribute, 
which always forms an AND condition, see below.
•Attribute values in different columns form an AND con-
dition.
This means that files must be tagged according to all these attribute val-
ues to be shown in the Results list.
Assigning...