I need help with Workspace. As anyone used it?

[Luis Daniel Pérez Oficial]

Hi folks,
    happens that I want to design an audio with sound effects, ambient music, like a movie but only with audio.
I've a collection too many extensive of sound effects, but I think it's very hard to search, look for each one, import, search, import… and if I need 200 sounds in that audio I couldn't use it, because Protools only supports up to 128 tracks.
I've hearing about Workspace, but really I don't know how to use it.
If anyone is expert or at least knows something about sound-design or audio-postproduction­, could them say me how to manage their libraries, please?
I'll be so grateful.
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Best regards.

[peter bosher]

Hi Luis,


I had to use Workspace a lot at one time, and I'm a little rusty now but
see whether this helps:


Open the default Workspace window. When you type your search-term in the
search box, results start appearing gradually, so VO-left and it will
give you the number of results.  Wait until that stabilises.   Now go to
the last table in the window and interact.  Here you can look down
through the results, and if you make a hotspot for the audition button,
then you can quickly hear each file.


Once you find the one you want, there are two ways to get it into your
session.  The quick way is to press VO-m for the context menu, then
choose "spot to edit insertion".  That will only appear on compatible
files, but even then you have to be sure it's in the right format.  The
other more reliable but longer way, is to pick "reveal in finder" and
copy it to the audio files in your session, from where you can import it
as a clip or new track.


I hope that helps a bit.


Best,


Peter

[peter bosher]

Hi again Luis,


I meant to say VO-Shift-M for the context menu.  My apologies.


Best,


peter

On 29/08/2019 01:21, Luis Daniel Pérez Oficial wrote: