Hi there,
It’s been a while since I asked about this media bar. There doesn’t seem to be much discussion around it here in the forum - yet I found it such a useful tool. I can quickly open the sidebar, enter something in the search and then boom, I have a bunch of audio files, presets, settings right at my disposal to play around with. I really love it!
Now, I have licensed quite a lot of sound libraries over the years. Presets, Samples, Sound Effects. They are all registered with the Media Bay and it updates easily. However, there comes a moment when you work with a client that has their own licensed content which I cannot use on my own projects, understandably. Yet, I want to be able to search these libraries just as easily.
What do you guys do to “temporarily” make these kinds of libraries searchable? Do I really just check/uncheck the folder in the Media Bay browser? Seems a little excessive if you have lots of folders like these… I am wondering if I can make some kind of collection that I can “activate” before searching these collections.
Happy about every suggestion!
Robert
well looks like I’ve been describing the principle of Protools Workspace browser 
Hi,
What about to use the File Browser in the MediaBay Rack?
How is the MediaBay Rack different from the Sidebar and how do I activate it?
From what I can see in the tutorial, this might be what I am looking for, I only hope it’s configurable so I can use it inside a sidebar that I can tuck away 
then I would be happy
Let me test this out!
Nope, that’s not it. Like I said before, going into that thing and searching for the folder, unchecking it is already too tedious/unintuitive for me. What if I forget doing that? What if I have multiple projects, each using different licensed, client-owned sound libraries? What if that folder is placed inside my main sound library folder which is itself already scanned by the Media Bay? I try to keep things tidy on my hard drive by not cramming sound libraries into project folders and vice versa.
I think what would really help here is an ability to create “sets” of different views on your file system. A set or “view” that is named “Project A” can have checkmarks in Specific folders that I deem necessary for this specific project whereas my saved set “Default” has all Checkmarks active in Sound libraries that contain my standard repertoire.
This is actually also something that I am missing in the “sound browser” as well. What if you’re a DJ that wants to make an album with a certain set of sounds in a specific spectral mood? Ableton actually lets you create such sets easily.
In my opinion, Cubase is lacking behind in that category.
Ah well, back to good old Finder-searching and managing.