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title: Sample Pack Importer
description: "Dragging folders in works fine, but once you have a lot of packs the importer is faster. It scans the folders where you keep your packs and lists everything it finds. Open it with the **Sample Pack Importer** button below…"
url: "https://www.kit-maker.com/docs/pm-sample-pack-importer/"
updated: "2026-09-29"
category: Getting Started
---

# Sample Pack Importer

Dragging folders in works fine, but once you have a lot of packs the importer is faster. It scans the folders where you keep your packs and lists everything it finds. Open it with the **Sample Pack Importer** button below the import panel.

## Basics

Click a pack to add it to your import list. It turns red with an arrow beside it; click it again to take it off. **Import All** adds every usable pack on the tab. Then click **Done** and **Make Presets**.

Click **Refresh** after you download new packs so the list picks them up.

The importer only reads your folders. Packs stay exactly where they are, and nothing is copied, moved, or renamed.

## The Five Tabs

One tab per source, and three of them find your folders on their own:

- **My Packs**: your own pack folders. Click **+ Add Folder** to add as many as you want; each becomes its own collapsible group. Removing a folder only takes it off this list, your files aren't touched.
- **MPC Exp.**: finds your MPC, MPC 3 or MPC Beats content folder. Expansions install under coded names like `com.akaipro.mpc.expansion…`, so Preset Maker reads MPC's own catalog files and shows the real pack name.
- **Maschine**: reads the Expansions location Native Access is using.
- **Splice**: finds your Splice packs folder.
- **Samples From Mars**: choose the folder where you keep these packs.

If a tab can't find its folder, it asks you to choose one. The reset button beside the path goes back to the detected location.

## Reading the List

Every row shows the pack name and what it will actually make, worked out with the same rules and preferences a real run uses. Change a preference and the counts update the next time you open the importer. A list might look like this:

```
▾ Producer Packs                          7 packs
  Late Night Keys             12 multis • 3 groups
  Tape Soul Vol. 2             4 multis • 5 groups
  Analog Poly Toolkit            18 sfz • 2 groups
  Melodic One-Shots                       6 groups
  Dusty Textures                   1 Loose preset
▸ No usable samples                       2 packs
```

- `12 multis`: multisample instruments built from the filenames
- `18 sfz`: instruments read from the pack's own instrument files
- `3 groups`: One-Shot Group Presets
- `1 Loose preset`: only loose melodic samples, pooled into one
- `25 xpm`: MPC keygroup programs, on the MPC Exp. tab

Hover a pack for the full breakdown: how many multisample instruments it makes, and how many samples go into each One-Shot Group Preset (for example Keys 18, Synths 11, Pads and Atmospheres 9, Loose 6).

Packs that wouldn't make anything, like a folder of drum loops with no notes in the filenames, are collected into a **No usable samples** drawer at the bottom of the list instead of failing partway through a batch. Packs with only a handful of samples sort to the bottom too.