How do U Organizing your Samples?

[FRETPICK]

Had a stupid accident the other day. Don't ask how but windows media player assimilated my entire library. Noooo.
Anyway.Derrr.lol

I've been buying some music mags of late with loads of free samples. Now 3.4 gig seems loads to try & A: Go through. B put it a right place.

I have 7 disc sitting here & would like to learn how to use them well.


So as above really. Any tips/help advice would be an amazing help.

[quartaumentata]

That seems to be one of the most underestimated matter in computer music.

Having a lot of samples but not knowing what they sound like or where they exactly are is useless. I can remember of a record (it was a LP -1989 !!) and the band credited the guy who managed the sound database: that seemed a bit odd at the time, but soon I learnt that it actually made (and makes) a lot of sense.

I'm sorry but the problem is still unsolved for me (I still try to remember at my best and search for samples every time).

Finally, windows media player "assimilated" the entire library? What do you mean exactly? That made me think of star trek "resistance is futile..."

But remember (now I'm seriuos) windows media player is pure evil, it is surely worse than a borg invasion, not only pro pc musicians but everyone should trash it.

[FRETPICK]

That seems to be one of the most underestimated matter in computer music.

Having a lot of samples but not knowing what they sound like or where they exactly are is useless. I can remember of a record (it was a LP -1989 !!) and the band credited the guy who managed the sound database: that seemed a bit odd at the time, but soon I learnt that it actually made (and makes) a lot of sense.

I'm sorry but the problem is still unsolved for me (I still try to remember at my best and search for samples every time).

Finally, windows media player "assimilated" the entire library? What do you mean exactly? That made me think of star trek "resistance is futile..."

But remember (now I'm seriuos) windows media player is pure evil, it is surely worse than a borg invasion, not only pro pc musicians but everyone should trash it.

Thanks dude.

Media player: Installed new update from MS & it ask if I wanted all audio to be in the Libray. Deerrr I just thought it was my albums. It just never accured to me it would locate the samples.:tongue: :biggrin:

Orders.

Yer I mean say I have 4 folders with sounds then open one of them. Then you go into another folder. You like the sound in one folder & then you can't find the other sound you had before.

My question is how does one combat this problem????

I thought about putting them in styles..drum & bass...trances....synth...etc but by the end of trying to do that I was still a tad lost. Random aims with the mouse in hope of a great sound.

So my strategie was to ask you more experience players on how you go about ORDRING YOUR SAMPLES? One could disk stream but isn't that a tad slow? Of course that save's on HD space.
I surppose it's easyer with dedicated library. MachFive,Kontact..etc because you know where they. An easy ref as what's it's & does.

Free sample on the other hand.....well any tips would be great.

How does anybody manage these things/System?

Wizard in need of a another wizard.

[FRETPICK]

Someone showed me how it is managed in reality.

Alphabetically, by filename. One big folder.
I sort 'em by sound category:

Drums (individual drum hits) (subdivided into kick, snare, etc. folders)
Perc-ish (individual hits, but not of drums. Bangs, clangs, zaps, etc.)
Rhythmo (multi-note samples that fall short of being rhythms or loops. Will need to be time-adjusted.)
Drum Loops (subdivided into appropriate families)
Other Loops (non-melodic, that is, because of:)
Melodic Loops and Fragments (obviously pitched material)
Pure Notes/Note Fragments (for instrument construction)
Pads/Textures/Beds
Vocal/Speech Hijinks
Harsh-sounding
Themed Sampling Sessions (gets handed out among the other folders as the material is edited.)
Randomonium (unclassifiable, Maybe fodder for later?)
Temporary/Workfile/Conversion
Copyrighted/Sample Clearance Needed (for live use, or for record companies who will clear the samples)

All of these sounds will be named and edited (with the exception of those in the Sampling Sessions and Temp/Work folders, which are always a work in progress.) They're all special, and have earned a place in the core library

And then a separate folder for imports from sample CDs and blind downloads from the internet. These get cut up and re-distributed among the core library as they prove themselves worthy. Once in a while they get culled. These aren't made by me or anyone I know, so they're generally used for more utilitarian purposes.

I organize them this way, because while writing/jamming/patch creation, I generally know what sort of sound I need, so I can quickly find a kick drum or a honky thing to use as a snare or some multi-syllable bonky-clonk to liven up a rhythm track, and so on. I never find myself thinking "well, I could use a Big Fish sound right now," for example, nor do I think date-wise ("lets dig something up from last June") Also, when I come across an interesting sound, it's easy to fit into a category that describes how I will eventually use it (even if I deliberately break this rule later while sound-designing, it makes the raw material so much more intuitive to find.)

At least I think that this is what you were asking. Is it?

-Hoax

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Program which another member gave me.

http://www.icedaudio.com/
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Any other like this about?:smile: