# Week 1 lesson 2 - Loading sample packs **URL:** \ **Category:** Week 1 - mini-notation\ **Created:** [10 April 2020 16:34 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341 "2020-04-10T16:34:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/yaxu/32/2_2.png) [@yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2020 15:01 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/21 "2020-04-11T15:01:21Z")
Make sure you’ve done “open startup file”, and then pasted in and saved the contents, before doing recompile class library. ---
**Author:** ![abalone1969](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/abalone1969/32/209_2.png) [@abalone1969](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/abalone1969)\ **Post date:** [11 April 2020 19:08 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/22 "2020-04-11T19:08:44Z")
wow, thanks! this is fantastic 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fedpep](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/fedpep/32/91_2.png) [@fedpep](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/fedpep)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 16:05 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/24 "2020-04-12T16:05:24Z")
Just a quick question. Is there a list somewhere with all the Supercollider’s samples? ---
**Author:** ![Dan](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/dan/32/367_2.png) [@Dan](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/Dan)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 16:28 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/25 "2020-04-12T16:28:43Z")
Do you mean the default samples? Not sure if there’s an actual list, but you can see the samples this way: - in supercollider, go to “File” then “Open User Support Directory”. This will open a folder in file explorer/finder - navigate into “downloaded quarks” and then “dirt-samples” - you’ll see a lot of subfolders such as “808”, “cp”, “bd” etc. Those are basically the tidal default sounds… I hope it helps! ---
**Author:** ![fedpep](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/fedpep/32/91_2.png) [@fedpep](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/fedpep)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 16:49 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/26 "2020-04-12T16:49:10Z")
Yes, thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/kisvakond/32/244_2.png) [@kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/kisvakond)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 17:41 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/27 "2020-04-12T17:41:21Z")
if you add the s.reboot line it means that the changes will only take effect if you reboot collider(e.g. recompile wont work in this case!) ---
**Author:** ![kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/kisvakond/32/244_2.png) [@kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/kisvakond)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 17:48 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/28 "2020-04-12T17:48:12Z")
Hi @yaxu, I have a question! 😃 What do you exactly mean by: > [@yaxu](#): > > Once you add things to Dirt-Samples, supercollider won’t be able to update it any more if new samples get added Does this mean that collider only indexes the dirt-samples folder once (e.g. the time of the creation of the folder) so even if I added some custom tracks to it, they wont be indexed? ---
**Author:** ![kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/kisvakond/32/244_2.png) [@kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/kisvakond)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 17:52 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/29 "2020-04-12T17:52:43Z")
also,I got these lovelies, could they cause any error in future times?: o ![Képernyőkép_2020-04-12_19-50-38](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/1X/947c151fe7d08035c680bead04a6d746f11168d0.png) thanks! ---
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/yaxu/32/2_2.png) [@yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 19:50 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/30 "2020-04-12T19:50:11Z")
No I mean that if someone contributes more sounds to the dirt-samples quark, and you’ve changed your copy, the supercollider gui won’t be able to download the new samples. ---
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/yaxu/32/2_2.png) [@yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 19:54 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/31 "2020-04-12T19:54:31Z")
Yes you’re probably using an old startup file? The current one should start with 12 orbits by default. d1, d2 etc are set up to use a different orbit, e.g. so they have separate global effects like reverb (will have a closer look at this sometime). ---
**Author:** ![kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/kisvakond/32/244_2.png) [@kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/kisvakond)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 20:08 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/32 "2020-04-12T20:08:28Z")
hmm, interesting, ive used the default startup file from the superdirt folder (as seen in the vid), but it looks like the orbit configuration is missing in my file, so ive done that manually like this: > ~d1 = ~dirt.orbits[0]; // one orbit > ~d2 = ~dirt.orbits[1]; > ~d3 = ~dirt.orbits[2]; > ~d4 = ~dirt.orbits[3]; > ~d5 = ~dirt.orbits[4]; > ~d6 = ~dirt.orbits[5]; > ~d7 = ~dirt.orbits[6]; > ~d8 = ~dirt.orbits[7]; > ~d9 = ~dirt.orbits[8]; > ~d10 = ~dirt.orbits[9]; > ~d11 = ~dirt.orbits[10]; > ~d12 = ~dirt.orbits[11]; > ~d13 = ~dirt.orbits[12]; > ~d14 = ~dirt.orbits[13]; > ~d15 = ~dirt.orbits[14]; > ~d16 = ~dirt.orbits[15]; things should be workin fine from now on 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/yaxu/32/2_2.png) [@yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 20:12 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/33 "2020-04-12T20:12:02Z")
Hm that bit shouldn’t make a difference - I think that’s just setting up things for debugging in supercollider. You should have something like this: ```auto ~dirt.start(57120, 0 ! 12) ``` and _not_ ```auto ~dirt.start(57120, [0,0]) ``` @Thom1D2 I just noticed that this needs fixing in the startup you posted. ---
**Author:** ![kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/kisvakond/32/244_2.png) [@kisvakond](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/kisvakond)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 20:16 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/34 "2020-04-12T20:16:49Z")
oh yeah, mine was saying the wrong one as well ☹🐙 one last Q: why do we use 12 if we have 16 streamlines available?(as far as I know) cheers ---
**Author:** ![yukonfawr](https://uzu.lurk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a9adbd/32.png) [@yukonfawr](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yukonfawr)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 21:44 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/35 "2020-04-12T21:44:21Z")
Hi Alex I am falling at the first hurdle. I enter the line as in the video but get error message. Tried this repeatedly this evening-can you point out what I need to do? My line is: ~dirt.loadSoundFiles(“C:/Users/Dafydd/Desktop/tidalclub/samples-extra/\*”); The error is "} CALL STACK: DoesNotUnderstandError:reportError arg this = Nil:handleError arg this = nil arg error = Thread:handleError arg this = arg error = Object:throw arg this = Object:doesNotUnderstand arg this = nil arg selector = ‘loadSoundFiles’ arg args = [\*1] Interpreter:interpretPrintCmdLine arg this = var res = nil var func = var code = “~dirt.loadSoundFiles(“C:/Use…” var doc = nil var ideClass = Process:interpretPrintCmdLine arg this = ^^ The preceding error dump is for ERROR: Message ‘loadSoundFiles’ not understood. RECEIVER: nil” Thanks ---
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/yaxu/32/2_2.png) [@yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 22:24 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/36 "2020-04-12T22:24:44Z")
There’s not a good reason! We just thought 16 would be a bit too much, each extra orbit has a little overhead. Set it to 16 if you like. ---
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/yaxu/32/2_2.png) [@yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 22:31 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/37 "2020-04-12T22:31:29Z")
Hm, are you running this _after_ starting superdirt? Could you be running an old version of SuperDirt? If so, you can check the version/update by running `Quarks.gui` Can you share the output of `Quarks.installed` Thanks ---
**Author:** ![yukonfawr](https://uzu.lurk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a9adbd/32.png) [@yukonfawr](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yukonfawr)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 22:59 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/38 "2020-04-12T22:59:53Z")
Hi I opened Supercollider-did not run SuperDirt as far as I am aware. Not sure how to run those suggestions, tried and this comes up in the screen: * * * -\> nil -\> a QuarksGui -\> [Quark: Vowel[472222fc51028abf749f56d89d21bd2fce434d17], Quark: Dirt-Samples[a7f0b2778f7306725e5cc372fbefb5fb66767781], Quark: SuperDirt[tags/v1.1.1] The version of SuperDirt is in the screen grab-says the latest: ![Capture](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/1X/d0597750cb786cf5f64a41956e7dce7cf5f6feee.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/yaxu/32/2_2.png) [@yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [12 April 2020 23:21 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/39 "2020-04-12T23:21:53Z")
Great, that all looks fine. You’ll need to start superdirt, in supercollider, before loading samples. The simplest way to do this is ```auto SuperDirt.start ``` In the instructions and video at the top of this thread though, there’s steps to copy a more detailed startup procedure, and get it to start superdirt _and_ load the extra samples whenever you open supercollider. ---
**Author:** ![yukonfawr](https://uzu.lurk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/a9adbd/32.png) [@yukonfawr](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yukonfawr)\ **Post date:** [13 April 2020 01:40 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/40 "2020-04-13T01:40:04Z")
Hi Alex No joy. I created the new Superdirt start up file but I cannot get the sample files to load. I have spent several hours trying this and re-watching the video. Can you see where I am going wrong and suggest to me what to do. ![new superdirt start up](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/1X/ffd4a9eb5e71861b11e426af56036353a4edd25e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ganz](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/ganz/32/64_2.png) [@ganz](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/ganz)\ **Post date:** [13 April 2020 07:06 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341/41 "2020-04-13T07:06:12Z")
It seems that a have a similar problem. Can't get the samples inside the new directory loaded and I don't get what is wrong. Supercollider says that there are "no folders fond in path", but actually there is a folder full of samples inside. When I put this folder inside the main sample folder the samples are recognized and work well. What does that mean? What is wrong with the path? ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-13 um 10.56.30](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/1X/7960e6f2d3f0c10fadb589e40e1c4de3d9c4533e.png) ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-13 um 10.57.17](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/1X/bb0aa677f0dbf1c4af1cc1e06e3fc5438e574bd4.png) ![Bildschirmfoto 2020-04-13 um 10.59.51](https://club.tidalcycles.org/uploads/default/original/1X/3027a6d7ec5c1e06a50f2ad2777561460346cb41.png) [Previous page](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341.md?page=1) [Next page](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/week-1-lesson-2-loading-sample-packs/341.md?page=3)