Loading Samples

You can load samples from your hard disk to use them in Padshop.

Loading a sample makes it available for use in the oscillator.

If you want to be able to select this sample from the sample selector in Padshop, you must import it first.

  • To load a sample, click Sample Functions in the top right of the display and select Load Sample from the pop-up menu.

You can also load samples using drag and drop:

  • Drag a sample from the MediaBay of your Steinberg DAW to the waveform display.

    Note

    You can only load samples from VST Sound containers that are shown in the MediaBay of your Steinberg DAW. Samples from the HALion or HALion Sonic MediaBay cannot be loaded.

  • Drag one or more selected audio events from a project of your Steinberg DAW to the waveform display.

  • Drag a slice from the Sample Editor of your Steinberg DAW to the waveform display.

  • Drag a sample from the File Explorer/macOS Finder to the waveform display.

Note

If Import Sample When Dropping is activated on the Sample Functions pop-up menu, samples are imported rather than loaded.