Clearing up Media Bay Confusion

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I see a lot of people having issues with the media bay not doing what they think it should or returning missing or incorrect results.

As I understand it, the Media Bay is its own separate application, but it’s just embedded into other programs.

I think the confusion comes from the fact that in the UI, it appears as part of the program, so users think that the media bay in Groove Agent is different than the one in Cubase (I know I did). But it’s actually the same Media Bay application.

This is a confusing concept to many users.

A way around this would be to make the media bay’s chrome look a bit different from the rest of the UI, indicating that it’s separate from the main application (perhaps just using a lighter shade of gray)

Also, if you include a dedicated Media Bay application that could have more capabilities than just what’s available in the applications.

That way, power users would use the dedicated Media Bay application to organize, comment, and star content.

As it’s really its own process now, making a dedicated version might not be too strenuous.

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Hi,

Please, add the optional feature-request tag to your post.

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MediaBay is a database, thats all it is, its a file system that you make changes within via Cubendo.

Its a powerful tool and should be studied before people mess about with it, (YOU CAN DELETE YOUR OWN COMPUTER FILES, WITHIN MEDIABAY !!!)

I use it primarily to organise all my computer content so i know what samples i like and what ones i think are garbage, and there tempos etc…

Without MediaBay id be lost, it lets me know what i regard as good and bad in my vast collection of samples.

It could be better, but the way it is at the moment is good enough and as far as i know the only think close to it, is a similar tool from Waves.

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Hi,

I agree with this…

I disagree with this. And that’s the point. You can also make changes within Groove Agent (standalone), HALion (Standalone), Dorico, etc.

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Thanks for clearing that up.

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