How to use 279 MIDI drum files?

[Stuart Welwood]

My collection of MIDI drum patterns are mostly from the Session Drummer files that came with CW9. Most were recorded by a session player, so they sound quite natural. The names of the files are often helpful in identifying the patterns, like "Alternative 148 - Open hat groove.mid" or 12bar4.mid.

I would like to have access to them in FSP8 for measure by measure audition and inclusion into a composite track. Ideally, I would like to see the files' titles. Otherwise, I'll be stuck poking around for the right fit for whatever measure(s) I'm working on.

Dragging all of the files into the track column at one time resulted in more "want to use GM?" boxes than I could bat down, and the program crashed. It did have time to create 251 empty folders with the names of the files in the Studio One Songs folder.

Dragging the files into the Arranger side gave me events in instrument tracks. No crash. Their names seemed to come from somewhere other than the filenames. Some were descriptive, many more were untitled, and all ended with "CH10" and no leading space.

There must be a better way to deal with these files in FSP8. Can the Launcher help in some way? Scratch Pads? What am I missing?

Thanks for any help. - Stuart

 

[OutrageProductions]

I have over 3k midi loop files and access them from the <Files> tab of the <Browser> via D&D. They show exactly as named in the OS, and I just drop them into the instrument track.