Managing Samples
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- KVRAF
- 4218 posts since 10 Oct, 2002 from Nashville, TN USA
This past year when I upgraded machines, I bought a huge portable drive and named it "Samples". Most of the organization on it is predetermined by the installation needs of various sample players. But I have a dedicated folder for soundfonts, gigasamples, and a folder for stuff that comes from CM.
I never put anything on the drive that isn't either commercial or free, so I don't have to worry about licensing issues.
I also have a work-in-progress folder where I keep bits and pieces of things that I've made, and it's out of that pool that I get some of my most enjoyable experiments.
I never put anything on the drive that isn't either commercial or free, so I don't have to worry about licensing issues.
I also have a work-in-progress folder where I keep bits and pieces of things that I've made, and it's out of that pool that I get some of my most enjoyable experiments.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 7 posts since 30 Jun, 2005
I was very interested in doing soundfx in movies, so i played a while around to spot fx to video-clips and recorded a huge collection meanwhile. Now I'm wondering how to manage my samples to find them faster.
Dance the Roller!
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- KVRist
- 71 posts since 26 Feb, 2006 from Amsterdam
SampleCatalog is very good, but does not support 24-bit samples
http://www.geocities.com/samplecatalog/
http://www.geocities.com/samplecatalog/
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- KVRian
- 1399 posts since 29 Feb, 2004
----I like to name my samples, that seems to help, and folders, use folders to store them in. Seriously man, there's a million ways to organize anything, do whatever works for you. 
Jeff
Jeff
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 7 posts since 30 Jun, 2005
any link / keywords suggestions ?jackson wrote:Do a search for previous forum topics on this, it's been discussed a hundred times, and there are quite a number of solutions.
Dance the Roller!
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- KVRist
- 80 posts since 23 Apr, 2002 from Germany
Okke wrote:SampleCatalog is very good, but does not support 24-bit samples
http://www.geocities.com/samplecatalog/
I dont know thiz programm till yet, but now i dl it and give it a try , because i hate always to search hours between many fx sounds and kicks and so on...maybe thiz programm could help me out
Hardcore for everyone
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- KVRist
- 360 posts since 22 Oct, 2005
aye..it might seem like a lot of work...but to go through, and listen to every sample, name it accordingly, and organize them into seperate folders, like say: drum kits, vinyl chops, downloaded loops, blah blah blah and so on......would make a world of difference, i spent about a month straight, spending a few hours every night, renaming and moving all my samples into the right folders....never once since, have a i had a headache from tryin to find what i need...
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- KVRist
- 30 posts since 7 Nov, 2005
Copernicus Desktop search is good for getting everything instantly if you have a program that can do drag-and-drop-just edit it so it just searches for wav type samples in the options
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- Hun #3
- 4265 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from A quaint little village just south of Hamburg, Germany
I maintain a fairly simple system really.
All my samples go in a folder called 'waves'.
Inside the waves folder are many folders of multisamples and five dedicated folders for drums, single hits, FX, loops and vocal snippets respectively.
The drums folder is kind of my inner sanctum because it's the oly directory to have yet another sub level. It essentially works the same, treating drumkits as 'multisamples'.
It contains dedicated folders for cymbals, percussion, claps, hats, kicks, snares and toms, covering every possible percussive instrument.
I also keep plenty of folders of dedicated kits in my drums folder. the above mentioned toms, snares etc directories are for those samples that don't belong to any greater entity ie kit.
The system has its flaws, for instance I might have three folders marked 'kit_x_all_snares', 'kit_x_all_kicks' and 'kit_x_all_hats', all sitting in the drums folder proper (as opposed to one of the dedicated directories) - that's because they clearly belong to a single kit.
So, those are the rules I play by. I think the important bit is keeping a balance between too few and too many sub-directories. The one makes finding a pain, the other makes browsing a pain.
Marco
All my samples go in a folder called 'waves'.
Inside the waves folder are many folders of multisamples and five dedicated folders for drums, single hits, FX, loops and vocal snippets respectively.
The drums folder is kind of my inner sanctum because it's the oly directory to have yet another sub level. It essentially works the same, treating drumkits as 'multisamples'.
It contains dedicated folders for cymbals, percussion, claps, hats, kicks, snares and toms, covering every possible percussive instrument.
I also keep plenty of folders of dedicated kits in my drums folder. the above mentioned toms, snares etc directories are for those samples that don't belong to any greater entity ie kit.
The system has its flaws, for instance I might have three folders marked 'kit_x_all_snares', 'kit_x_all_kicks' and 'kit_x_all_hats', all sitting in the drums folder proper (as opposed to one of the dedicated directories) - that's because they clearly belong to a single kit.
So, those are the rules I play by. I think the important bit is keeping a balance between too few and too many sub-directories. The one makes finding a pain, the other makes browsing a pain.
Marco