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

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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_