How the hell are we going to handle this??

[dgkenney]

I have been cheering at the evolving announcement of SS2 - 5 gigs.....7gigs....over 8 gigs of sounds. But then it hit me....I already have SS1, ST2 and a couple of eRoms and I plan on getting SP when it is available. How are folks planning on organizing these libraries so you can find something.

My first reaction was to have an overall sample folder under which would be folders for each edition (e.g. ST2, SS1, SS2, SP, Guitar Collection, etc) under which are the standard instrument folders. But this method will require changing the root everytime I want to find something in Sampletank or scrolling forever in the SampleTank window. (Can I make another plea for mouse wheel here ) Another tact is by instrument but this will prove to be problematic if I want to use the SS2 or SP gui since they can only load their own sounds. This could also prove to be a problem if there were updates.

Any thoughts.

Dan

[Squids]

Well, you can do it a number of ways. One thing you can do to maintain the module's sounds together is install the SS2 or SP sounds onto a separate hard drive and leave it intact. Then you can always browse to it when you want it from the appropriate module.

However, another thing you can do is merge the sounds of things like SS2 into your own custom ST2 sound set. It's not a bad way to work, especially if you wanted to take the time to pick out all of your favorites and make a favorites set that you can browse to. Ironically, in most cases you can even point SS2 to that folder and it will simply just load the sounds that are encoded to play and won't load the others. The only thing that won't work perfectly are the SS2 combis which require that you have the entire sound set available in case they are an element in the combi.

You have a lot of options though. The best is to keep them seprarate though and get to know them. You can always bring in one or a group of sounds into ST2 for a particular project as well.

[Sicklecell666]

What I did with the SS2 & ST2, & ST2 LE's was make a directory for ST/SR Sounds on my second drive and assign that folder as the root for all instruments but SS2 free(which only loads the soundsets assigned to it, while ST2 free can load anything *I believe*), with seperate folders inside for SS, ST2 & SS2 free, Omnisynth, etc..Each instrument points to the main directory, & each subfolder lists in each instrument's browser, but you can glance at your folder & know which ones will load in your current instrument or not..

[smp]

What I did with the SS2 & ST2, & ST2 LE's was make a directory for ST/SR Sounds on my second drive and assign that folder as the root for all instruments but SS2 free(which only loads the soundsets assigned to it, while ST2 free can load anything *I believe*), with seperate folders inside for SS, ST2 & SS2 free, Omnisynth, etc..Each instrument points to the main directory, & each subfolder lists in each instrument's browser, but you can glance at your folder & know which ones will load in your current instrument or not..

This is what I do as well. I have a SampleTank Sounds folder with subfolders eg OmniSynth, Sonic Synth, Symphony Strings etc. In fact, it never occurred to me that anyone would want to do it any other way...

-s

[Kim Lajoie]

I've completely reorganised my SampleTank instruments.

I've basically put all the categories together. For example, by "Acoustic Pianos" folder has pianos from SR and IK, from various libraries. All in the one folder. Similarly, synth pads, I-Map drum kits, etc, are all organised by instrument type, not by library or company.

I did it that way because when I'm composing I often think "I need a sound of this type" - rather than "I need a sound from IK", or "I need a sound from SR".

It took a bit of work to move everything around, but now I have all the sounds I need, where I need them.

Forever,




Kim.

[smp]

I've completely reorganised my SampleTank instruments.

I've basically put all the categories together. For example, by "Acoustic Pianos" folder has pianos from SR and IK, from various libraries. All in the one folder. Similarly, synth pads, I-Map drum kits, etc, are all organised by instrument type, not by library or company.

I did it that way because when I'm composing I often think "I need a sound of this type" - rather than "I need a sound from IK", or "I need a sound from SR".

It took a bit of work to move everything around, but now I have all the sounds I need, where I need them.

Actually, that's a pretty damn good idea, now that I think about it. Would take a hell of a lot of time to do (depending on the size of your library of sounds) but I can definitely see how it could improve workflow.

Wish I'd thought of that

Oh well, once I'm sure I've got all the SR sounds I need, I'll give some serious thought to this

-s