Import Module

How fMusic names your tracks

Every track fMusic creates is named automatically by the Forte rename engine, in one batch, before anything reaches Pro Tools. The recognition model classifies audio, but it never names a track: names come from your file names, cleaned up into studio-grade track names.

Canonical names from file names

When a file name identifies an instrument, fMusic writes the canonical instrument name, keeping numbering and mic segments: 18_AcGtr1Mic1.wav becomes ACOUSTIC GUITAR 1 MIC 1.

The de-junked fallback

When the file name identifies no instrument, the whole name is kept but de-junked: the extension and BPM tags are removed, and separators become spaces. Nothing informative in your name is thrown away; only the noise goes.

The INSTRUMENT - MIC - PREAMP convention

File names that follow the studio convention INSTRUMENT - MIC - PREAMP, with three or more segments separated by  - , are read accordingly: only the instrument segment is classified, and the rest is treated as gear information.

No two tracks share a name

Naming runs on the whole set at once, so collisions are resolved before any track is created. Two files that would produce the same name are disambiguated with their gear segment when one exists and differs; otherwise fMusic appends a numeric index.

Casing

The Naming style setting applies a casing to every generated name: As typed, Title Casing (the default), UPPERCASE, Capitalize or lowercase. It lives in Settings ▸ Import & Organize; see Renaming settings.

Renaming a single track

To override a generated name, right-click the lane header in the editor and choose Rename Track…. In an Import, the track is created in Pro Tools with your name; in an Organize, the rename is applied to the existing Pro Tools track when the job runs.