Manage Databases
Open from View → Options Page, or press Ctrl/Cmd+D — one of the most-used panels.
Activate a database (same as Ctrl/Cmd+O), create a new one, or click the Folder button to reveal where databases are stored — rename, duplicate, or delete from Finder/Explorer.
Tools menu
Professional SQLite database repair, maintenance, and other tools. Visit here every once in a while — keeping your database optimized makes everything else faster.
Custom Fields Standard & Ultra
Eight new database-wide custom fields land on the Manage Databases page — user1 through user8. Name them once and the labels propagate everywhere: Results grid columns, the Details Panel, and the Search field dropdown.
Where to set them
A new Custom Fields section on the Manage Databases page, just below the existing UCS chunk options. Eight text boxes labelled user1: through user8:. Max length 30 characters per name.
What happens once you name them
- Results grid — available as selectable columns; the friendly name you set shows instead of the internal
user1…user8 - Details Panel — each value is editable per-sound
- Search field dropdown — full-text search against the named field
- iXML on export/spot — the values are written into a
<BASEHEAD>chunk inside the iXML so they travel with the file to other DAWs - Copy / paste between databases — supported for the values
Schema note — these map to user1–user8 columns that have been dormant in the schema since v2024. No migration needed and any existing data already in those columns is preserved.
Daily database backups
Backs up databases that were active during the day. Skipped if a database wasn’t loaded that day. Choose between the default location or a server location — backups are zipped up to compress the size.
Shared & Remote tabs
The Shared tab manages databases your machine hosts for the team. The Remote tab connects to databases hosted on someone else’s machine. Both tabs only appear when the DSS (Database Sharing & Sync) add-on is enabled.
Host IP auto-refresh
When a host PC reboots and lands on a new LAN IP, basehead automatically re-pushes that new IP to the License Server the next time the host logs in. Clients see the correct IP after their next refresh — no “switch to Local then back” workaround needed. Runs once per session for every locally-hosted shared DB.
Client auto-reconnect
If your active Remote DB’s LiteSync connection is stuck on a stale IP from before the host’s reboot, basehead silently reopens it once per session, right after the fresh shared-database list loads from LLS. You don’t have to do anything.
Connect-failure hint — if you still see “Connection refused” or “Timed out” on a Remote DB, the message now suggests asking the host to relaunch basehead so it can re-push its current IP to the License Server.
Looking for more info on Database Sharing & Sync? Go to the DSS page →