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SynthEyes has a scripting language, Sizzle, and uses Sizzle scripts to implement exporters, some importers, and tool functions. While many scripts are supplied with SynthEyes, you can change them as you see fit, or write new ones to interface to your studio workflow.
You can find the importers on the File/Importers menu, exporters on the File/Exporters menu, and tool scripts on the main Script menu.
The File menu presents the last few exporters for quick access, and an Export Again option (with keyboard accelerator) for fastest of all. Similarly the Script menu presents the last few scripts, with a keyboard accelerator for the last one. You can adjust the number of most-recent exports and scripts kept from the Save/Export section of the preferences.
On your machine, scripts are stored in two places: a central folder for all SynthEyes users, and a personal folder for your own. Two menu items at the top of the Script menu will quickly open either folder.
SynthEyes mirrors the folder structure to produce a matching sub-menu structure. You can create your own “My Scripts” folder in your personal area and place all your own scripts in that area, to be able to quickly find your scripts and distinguish them from the standard system scripts.
Similarly, a studio might have an “Our Shared Scripts” folder in the shared SynthEyes scripts folder. The entire scripts folder can be moved to a shared drive using the Scripts folder preference.
Scripts in the user's area are listed with an asterisk (*) as a prefix. If a user's script has the same name as a system script, thus replacing it, the user's script will be used, and it is prefixed with three asterisks(***) to note this situation.
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