"How do you rename your files?" (Draggonrabbit63 question)

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I’ve only just started with VCV but I think I need to take some tips from this thread, I can’t really remember what a lot of these are.

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Mine all have stupid names with the BPM and sometimes with the scale if i’m using the ScalaQuantizer but I mostly don’t bother saving

A good way to finish WIPs is to whip yourself while your folder is still full, every unfinished project is another lash!

A better way is to make some sort of schedule and stick to it, so you might focus on finishing things for 2 weeks per month or do it by the phases of the moon or whatever.

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I guess another good question to pair with this one: Who uses notes in their patches, or at least the Submarine TD202 Vertical text?

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I just sort by date created if I want to do that :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I’ve been thinking recently that I could really use some sort of version control system - with branches and rollback and so on…
Wonder if I could turn my patches folder into a working git repo?

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32 posts were split to a new topic: HowTo: Set up a github repository for your VCV patches

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I start with some base name: horse.vcv

And each time I want to save a new version, I “save as” with a new name that includes the old name as a prefix. For example: horse-spooky.vcv.

Then I keep going, adding a -<whatever> each time I save-as. If I want to go back and re-branch, I can load horse.vcv and save some new branch as horse-mellow.vcv.

This certainly pollutes my patches directory, but I try to only save the patch when I get something cool, and it lets me easily see how the patch evolved.

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I’ve updated my naming system:

  • crap1.vcv
  • crap2.vcv
  • garbage1.vcv
  • garbage2.vcv
  • unbearable1.vcv
  • unbearable2.vcv
  • justgiveup.vcv
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I make a directory “Name of current patch something” under patches for each patch I’m working on, and in that the patches are called #1, #2, etc… when the patch is done I name it, save it in the patches directory and delete the sub-directory with all the intermediate stages.

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something like this

patches

I usually don’t modify a patch that’s been done…maybe…48 hours earlier? then I would do a copy and work on that one…

for something more “playable” as a polysynth I don’t need to make more copies, it’s always evolving :yum:

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real synthesists never rename :muscle:

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I learned a long time ago to export audio of the project I was working on and use incremental save names blahblah_insertdate_001. No need to even open the project to hear what it is, after you have forgotten it that is!

There might be a mix / arrangement you did which could only be replicated through hearing the arrangement, it is very good practice to both increment a save and export an audio clip of it. A side effect of this is you will get much better with performing.

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something 01, noise 01, industrial 01, count up sequentially.

if it’s a branch/offshoot of some older patch than it’s something 01,1 something 01,2 something 01,2,1 etc

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I just have Clocked set to 144 BPM by default on my template patch (no particular reason I just liked the number itself) so that part of the naming is never relevant for me lol

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That’s just gross :wink:

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for single files, hit right click over the file, menu, rename

for massive pyrenamer

is it?

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If you are doing this for lots of files you only need to right click once then use TAB to go to the next file.

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I know lol. I make industrial man, it’s SUPPOSED to sound like shit! :wink:

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Mix it up a little, go up to 288 :slight_smile:

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Without rhyme or reason whatsoever. I name patches the way you put random photographs and memorabilia in a shoebox. However, patches that I consider kind of finished entities get an aa_ prefix and patches in which, point of saving, I only explore stuff/tricks/modules, an x_