Category: options

● Knowledge Base · Options Local API Setup Ultra Let your own tools and AI agents search, import and transfer through basehead. It runs inside basehead on your own computer… this page gets you connected. The full endpoint...

Configure basehead’s external settings — set up your preferred wave editor, external tools, and file handling behaviors.

Personalize basehead with custom accent colors, background themes, meter styles, playhead and waveform colors, plus your own system sounds.

CloudPacks let basehead stream and search sound effects libraries hosted in the cloud — no local storage required, included free depending on edition.

basehead Drive Remapping (Standard and Ultra) lets you relink sound effects when you move your library to a new drive or rename a folder.

The basehead Thesaurus feature (Ultra) expands searches with synonyms — find related sound effects even when you don’t know the exact keyword.

Auto-complete in basehead (Ultra) suggests metadata values while you type — speeds up tagging and reduces typos on large libraries.

basehead supports the Universal Category System (UCS) metadata standard — import UCS-tagged libraries and browse by Category/SubCat in the NodeTree.

How to create, switch, merge and back up basehead’s SQLite databases — keep multiple libraries organized and safely backed up.

Configure basehead’s audio engine — device selection, audition outputs, sample rate handling, and routing between basehead and your DAW.

Configure basehead’s Target Application and external Wave Editor — send sounds directly to your DAW or open files in RX, SoundForge, or other editors.

basehead transfer options — preserve original sample rate and bit depth, output to FLAC, and control how sounds land in your DAW.

basehead’s General and Miscellaneous options panel — core preferences for startup, defaults, paths, and other foundational settings.

The basehead Waveform View shows your audio with scrubbing playhead, spectral overlays, and all the editing tools you need before transfer.