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Nice to see the Sound Library finally release. Thanks.

Installer oddities:
For Windows, asks where you would like to install; totally logical & many of us have GBs of libs on a dedicated fast volume.
For Mac, no such luck: will only install to the user /Movies dir; attempting to move & alias only results in Resolve not being able to find that lib.

Paul Draper wrote:Nice to see the Sound Library finally release. Thanks.

Installer oddities:
For Windows, asks where you would like to install; totally logical & many of us have GBs of libs on a dedicated fast volume.
For Mac, no such luck: will only install to the user /Movies dir; attempting to move & alias only results in Resolve not being able to find that lib.

I have installed the New library and left it to defaults. Can't seem to see any sounds in Fairlight though when I open up the Sound Library and select "Fairlight Sound Library". Any ideas?

MadPanic wrote:I have installed the New library and left it to defaults. Can't seem to see any sounds in Fairlight though when I open up the Sound Library and select "Fairlight Sound Library". Any ideas?

Have you entered a search term?

When you type *.* in the search box, you get a list of all sounds available in the library.

Sooo cryptic.
Is there a list of search items that need to be adhered to?

So...where is that installer? It wasn't an option for me to check when I installed 16.2. Is it a separate executable?

Jim Simon wrote:So...where is that installer? It wasn't an option for me to check when I installed 16.2. Is it a separate executable?

It is on the fairlight tab

Blackmagic Fairlight Sound Library 1.0 Installers

macOS:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... c%20OS%20X

Windows:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... 10/Windows

Linux:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/suppor ... 1810/Linux

Jim Simon wrote:So...where is that installer? It wasn't an option for me to check when I installed 16.2. Is it a separate executable?

Go to Fairlight and click on the Sound Library tab; you will see a download link there. Makes sense for it to be an optional install since many people won't need it and don't want it taking up space.

Thanks guys.

Actuallly, Sasa's suggestion of entering *.* in the Search area to see all the sound library items, does not show you everything.

You need to enter *** in the Search area to see everything.

Jim Simon wrote:So...where is that installer? It wasn't an option for me to check when I installed 16.2. Is it a separate executable?

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/support/
Latest Downloads /Blackmagic Fairlight Sound Library 1.0

Yes, enjoying the new library. The samples are very clean and of high quality. They certainly have all the makings for a nice horror movie:
Head to floor, heavy body fall, body bumps empty bath, slams wall, slide down wall body fall, blood flesh squish, blood squirt spray, blood splurging and gurgle, crow vulture pecking flesh.

Good thing I browsed these during the day

I added Fairlight Sound Library to my account.
How to remove it? It is twice there.

Vit Reiter wrote:I added Fairlight Sound Library to my account.
How to remove it? It is twice there.

It is solved. I deleted /Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/DaVinci Resolve/Resolve Disk Database/Resolve Projects/SoundLib.db and restarted app.

Thanks for the *.* tip. Funny how the 'punch' search term shown in the guide doesn't turn anything up...

Again, *.* does not show you everything.

*** will show you everything.

Can this be used with Resolve 15?

Dwaine Maggart wrote:You need to enter *** in the Search area to see everything.

Thanks Dwaine!

Dwaine Maggart wrote:*** will show you everything.

Thanks for the info.

Paul Draper wrote:Nice to see the Sound Library finally release. Thanks.

Ditto!

Installer oddities: [...]
For Mac, no such luck: will only install to the user /Movies dir; attempting to move & alias only results in Resolve not being able to find that lib.

Yuck! Why would this not be in the Application Support/Blackmagic Design location? The Movies directory is something I like to keep empty, to maintain confidence that I'm not using any of Apple's superfluous media applications.

Dwaine Maggart wrote:Again, *.* does not show you everything.

*** will show you everything.

This only shows 1000 out of the 37000 that I have and its the first 1000. Is there a limit on how many can be shown?

Dwaine Maggart wrote:Actuallly, Sasa's suggestion of entering *.* in the Search area to see all the sound library items, does not show you everything.

You need to enter *** in the Search area to see everything.

That's sorted my issue, thankyou. I can now access the samples, but what sort of search term is '***' ? It's not a regular expression or anything standard I've come across before?

* is just a wildcard indicator. But the search box doesn't do anything until it has at least 3 characters entered.

Michael Tiemann wrote:

Paul Draper wrote:Nice to see the Sound Library finally release. Thanks.[/quote

Installer oddities: [...]
For Mac, no such luck: will only install to the user /Movies dir; attempting to move & alias only results in Resolve not being able to find that lib.

Yuck! Why would this not be in the Application Support/Blackmagic Design location? The Movies directory is something I like to keep empty, to maintain confidence that I'm not using any of Apple's superfluous media applications.

Again, I highly recommend the free ADSR Sample Manager plugin. Works the same on mac or or windows: put your sample library anywhere & it learns that; requires no obscure searching, all samples available to preview in the interface, with metadata, favs marking, etc. I've been using this since Resolve 15, just insert on any track, bus or aux.

In the case of the Fairlight Sample Library on Mac OS, once I installed this to the Movies dir, I just moved that folder to my sample library disk, then asked ADSR Sample Manager to re-scan, all good. It also installs as a standalone app as well as AU, VST & AAX so that's handy too.

Hello everyone
Am I the only one having this problem? I installed Fairlight Sound Library 1.0 and in the Sound Library panel, many sound effects are silent (and others are normally heard).
And if I drag the mouse from silent sound effect from Sound Library panel to the timeline, this sound effect is heard by reading the timeline!

Thank you in advance for you help (and excuse me for my poor english).

My configuration : Davinci Resolve 16.2, Windows 10 version 1909

CClaude wrote:Hello everyone
Am I the only one having this problem? I installed Fairlight Sound Library 1.0 and in the Sound Library panel, many sound effects are silent (and others are normally heard).
And if I drag the mouse from silent sound effect from Sound Library panel to the timeline, this sound effect is heard by reading the timeline!

Thank you in advance for you help (and excuse me for my poor english).

My configuration : Davinci Resolve 16.2, Windows 10 version 1909

This has happened to me before, a restart has fixed it.

Where to install Fairlight Sound Library in Linux?
Installed it in default path: /home/<username>/Movies/Fairlight Sound Library
but Resolve does not find any samples... I guess its installed in the wrong location?

Paul Draper wrote:just insert on any track, bus or aux.

Could you clarify what you mean by that? I am not catching how you use the manager in conjunction with Resolve. I am on Windows BTW.

Edit: After running the installer and also rebooting the computer, when I go to the default location, the Fairlight Sound Library folder is empty. Shouldn't there be files in there (I have my view settings to show hidden files)?

@Marc: You won't see any of the sound library items until you enter a search term in the search window.

If you want to see all the samples, enter 3 asterisks: ***

That should show you 515 results.

@Dwaine: Tried it with the *** starts, but there is still the button telling me to download the library, is there anywhere an option to specify the path to the libray and db file?

gtempleman wrote:

Paul Draper wrote:just insert on any track, bus or aux.

Could you clarify what you mean by that? I am not catching how you use the manager in conjunction with Resolve. I am on Windows BTW.

I have both MacOS & Windows workstations & the operations are identical for ADSR - though as I have posted earlier: the Win installers allows you to install anywhere, ie, in my case on a dedicated sample libraries SSD; in the case of MacOS installer the dir is fixed, ie, in the system /Movies folder. That can be ignored & moved for ADSR.

1) Go to the ADSR plugin site & there are video guides there.

2) Download and install; this comes as a standalone application as well as in various plugin formats; Resolve will use the VST2 plug (in Windows).

3) Open the standalone app, 'point' it at your sample libraries location (and/or nested folders) one of which might be named as 'Fairlight Sample Library'. Give it a little time to learn that, depending on how much library you have - spinning update cursor indicates 'learning'.

4) Open Resolve, open Fairlight, make (say) an Aux, or a Bus, or a blank audio track for that matter; name this aux/bus/track 'ADSR', or 'Sample Library', whatever you like.

5) Insert the ADSR plugin in on that aux /bus or track.

6) Open the plug and use it to find the sample you want - via keyword, tempo, key, favourite, name etc.

7) Drag and drop the sample on a track.

Again, all of this & more is covered in the ADSR documentation. Resolve then opens & uses the plug-in just like any other DAW or NLE.

gtempleman wrote: Edit: After running the installer and also rebooting the computer, when I go to the default location, the Fairlight Sound Library folder is empty. Shouldn't there be files in there (I have my view settings to show hidden files)?

Not sure what your local problem might be there, but re. the MacOS installer, it operates consistently here, ie, run the installer (remembering to answer and check any of the dopey Security Pane prompts & especially on Catalina) - this installs both the samples themselves and what appears to be PG DB files into the top dir of ~/User/Movies folder. In my case with ADSR, have simply moved the samples dir to a dedicated SSD, then deleted the Movies folder dir. NB that this will no longer work with Resolve's onboard PG DB-based library search, but instead with the ADSR plugin.

PC: Dell T7910, dual 3GHz Xeon, 64GB ram, Windows 10 for Workstations 1909, RTX 2080Ti.

@Marc: Where is that button? Can you provide a screen shot?

When you run the installer, the second step is an option to pick the Installation Folder.

I took the default path of /home/"username"/Movies/Fairlight Sound Library

But there should be a Browse button to pick a different folder, if desired.

gtempleman wrote:
Edit: After running the installer and also rebooting the computer, when I go to the default location, the Fairlight Sound Library folder is empty. Shouldn't there be files in there (I have my view settings to show hidden files)?

Fixed after rerunning the installer. It appeared to properly complete the first time but obviously did not.

@Dwaine: Thanks for taking your time. It works now!
What I did is completely remove all Blackmagic stuff and then reinstalled everything, now it finds the sound library.
I think there might be a problem when upgrading from older versions....

Dwaine Maggart wrote:@Marc: You won't see any of the sound library items until you enter a search term in the search window.

If you want to see all the samples, enter 3 asterisks: ***

That should show you 515 results.

The search system has to be improved

When I tried to install Fairlight Sound Library 1.0 by 06 Mar 2020 from Support Page on CentOS Linux I got following message in a terminal:

Code: Select all

Verifying archive integrity...expr: non-integer argument
expr: non-integer argument
Error in MD5 checksums: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e is different from dca832e41efc88d79522c25cf54d1723


Any suggestions?

What's the size of the zip file you downloaded?

It should be 968,952,175 bytes. If it's not, try downloading it again.

Dwaine Maggart wrote:What's the size of the zip file you downloaded?
It should be 968,952,175 bytes.

Exactly the same:
969.0 MB (968,952,175 bytes) Blackmagic_Fairlight_Sound_Library_Linux.zip
MD5:
9ba68b477a6360a0c950a3a33e8f03a8 Blackmagic_Fairlight_Sound_Library_Linux.zip
a7a7b4706e9e21c07b94688cad44fc33 Blackmagic_Fairlight_Sound_Library_Linux.run

How do you delete or rename a library?

Dwaine Maggart wrote:try downloading it again

It's a strange behavior but it works when it runs from user's home folder but not from /run/media/user/DRIVE/ location.
I managed to complete the installation for now.

I just downloaded and installed but it doesn't recognize the library and asks be to download again.

Do I have to restart the computer? Mac.

I restarted my Resolve but also ...why does my media always seem to be offline? It never did that before then it finds it....

Maybe that is why it doesn't see Fairlight Sounds ? do I have to manually link everything?

geez

anyway help would be much grateful...

and oh yea.....(&&& is the search term....just saying)

&&& is not the search term. Use ***

Send a screenshot of your Fairlight page with Sound Library selected.

twainrichardson wrote:

Dwaine Maggart wrote:Again, *.* does not show you everything.

*** will show you everything.

This only shows 1000 out of the 37000 that I have and its the first 1000. Is there a limit on how many can be shown?

I have the same problem. Loaded a large library in multiple sub folders and I get a flat list of "1000 out of 1337"
EDIT ok on *** it only lists the first 1000. If you give it a search term eg "zip" it searches whole library.

I renamed the folder it was in (stupid I know) but the entries remained in the local database library but not the actual files. SO I re added the library with the new folder name. I now have a library of duplicate entries, one that works and one that doesn't. How can i delete the local database in Fairlight and start again? This is on a Win10 PC

Mac or Windows?

Are you using a Disk or PostgreSQL database?

Dwaine Maggart wrote:Mac or Windows?

Are you using a Disk or PostgreSQL database?

Win 10 disk database.

I have been hunting around to try and find the appropriate config file but to no avail.

The following will remove the entire Sound Library, so you'll need to add the proper sounds files back in again after doing this. Also, I can't say what this might do to existing projects that might be using sounds in the current library. Hopefully that's not an issue.

In the Project Manager page, with the Database area exposed, right click the database in question, and select Open File Location.

Open the Resolve Projects folder.

You should see a SoundLib.db file. Rename that to SoundLib.db.old

Restart Resolve and re-add your desired sounds.

Dwaine Maggart wrote:The following will remove the entire Sound Library, so you'll need to add the proper sounds files back in again after doing this. Also, I can't say what this might do to existing projects that might be using sounds in the current library. Hopefully that's not an issue.

In the Project Manager page, with the Database area exposed, right click the database in question, and select Open File Location.

Open the Resolve Projects folder.

You should see a SoundLib.db file. Rename that to SoundLib.db.old

Restart Resolve and re-add your desired sounds.

Hi Dwaine, many thanks, that worked.

Dwaine Maggart wrote:The following will remove the entire Sound Library, so you'll need to add the proper sounds files back in again after doing this. Also, I can't say what this might do to existing projects that might be using sounds in the current library. Hopefully that's not an issue.

In the Project Manager page, with the Database area exposed, right click the database in question, and select Open File Location.

Open the Resolve Projects folder.

You should see a SoundLib.db file. Rename that to SoundLib.db.old

Restart Resolve and re-add your desired sounds.

Hi Dwaine

Thanks for the prompt fix. Re the sound library It would be useful to be able to be able to add to the main library so new sounds are available to all projects.

Also it would be helpful to be able to "rescan" a local database. If I add some effects to my local database I don't want to have to delete and re-install mid project as I will loose any links/effects I have already used.

Finally for ease of searching etc (and partly for the reason above) would it be possible to have the Fairlight library + more than one separate local database? I have several separate audio libraries and I may want to add to a project.

Thanks
Chris

Couldn’t you locate the sound files on your hard drive and just add them to your main sound library?