Native Instruments default patch lists?

[Paulie]

Apparently such a thing does not exist? I'm trying to catalog sounds so I can find them easily layer. Massive comes with 1300 sounds plus several expansions, but there is no way to export the database that I can find. Google hasn't helped, anyone know if the list is online anywhere?

[Len911]

Paulie, I'm not familiar with Pro Tools, but I think they have a "workspace browser".

Whether a daw or a plugin itself, most have ways of searching the files you aim the browser to search for files, categories, tags, etc. On top of that they let you audition and load the patch, loop, midi or whatever.

I think there are better ways of doing what you want to do without resorting to a database. There used to be things they called "patch editor/librarians", but that was mainly for hardware synths.

Cubase has what is called mediabay, it can search audio loops, midi loops, instrument patches, audition them, synch to tempo, import into your project, you can add your own metadata tags... You have to point it to the folders you want searched. The things I use in the media bay, I actually have a file named "media Bay" and dump everything there, and either scan all the files in there, or usually just a few I know have what I am looking for.

Any program that will allow you to add tags, seems to me to be the essence of what you are looking for.

I found this:
"With ProTools you can display and edit metadata in the workspace browser. Open it via Window menu > Browsers > Workspace and open one of your drives with sound files on it & see what metadata already exists in your files. You can see from this example that it easily gives you the ability to tag the file with more descriptive terms than is used in the file name"