Sample Browsers?

karmacazee · Post by **karmacazee** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 2:26 am

Ok, I'm finally going to do it.

I'm going to organise the chaos that is my sample library.

It's so all over the shop it's starting to piss me off - plus organising the thing will free up some much needed Giggage through prudent preening.

The only thing that's daunting me is the prospect of auditioning every sound to see what category it's under and whether it's a keeper using VLC media player...

Any programs out there that let you audition sounds like, say, ableton does, and then let you organise and delete stuff?

Boring but important.

karmacazee · Post by **karmacazee** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:56 pm

Well, thankfully ableton has that self contain button that lets you collect all the audio in a project together and saves it into a separate file. Plus it's pretty good at locating missing samples if you haven't self contained the set...

But yeah, I'd rather be doing lots of other things today than this, but I've got to do it... it's all about the workflow man...

the dub lemon · Post by **the dub lemon** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 7:51 pm

i've been getting right into mediabay in cubase lately, sadly only cubase users can can take advantage of this but it's great, you can search by intrument type, tempo, processed/dry, key, major/minor, whatever really. it's really good once you get into it and get all your samples tagged (takes a while).

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:49 am

sad to say that protools has everything killed in this regard.

i know breakage was using a 3rd-party sample-sorting bit of software... will check.

collige · Post by **collige** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:30 am

Renoise plays any sample when you click on it in the browser and lets you delete/rename at will.

fiziks · Post by **fiziks** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:48 am

I don't think there is an easy way to sort all your samples. I had a few folders of random samples that I've cut over the years that I was trying to sort out. I just deleted them though. I'll just sample new shit. Other than some core breaks and drum machine samples that I've acquired over the years, the rest can be replaced. Plus, it's forced me to dig for new samples instead of going back to the same stuff. I've got 4 or 5 movies that I've watched and sampled along the way that I haven't even got into yet.

Oh...That reminds me of a good story. About 2 weeks ago or so I was watching a movie and sampling as it went along. I use wave editor(best freaking wave editor for the mac btw) to record everything. On the recording box it has a marker button and a "clear", "start/stop" and "done" button. Well, I was almost done with the movie, had some good samples, went to hit stop to quit recording and hit clear. Cleared the whole recording. Man, I was fucking hot. That's more of a bad story though. If I had kids I would have beat one for no reason.

edjrussell · Post by **edjrussell** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:03 am

was just checking out the wave editor fiziks was talking about, (looks pretty nice by the way) and i came across this

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/sa ... /index.php

not sure if this is the sort of thing your after, looks more like its made for batch conversion and things but it must have some sample sorting applications.

karmacazee · Post by **karmacazee** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:28 pm

edjrussell wrote:was just checking out the wave editor fiziks was talking about, (looks pretty nice by the way) and i came across this

http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/sa ... /index.php

not sure if this is the sort of thing your after, looks more like its made for batch conversion and things but it must have some sample sorting applications.

Cheers for looking dude, but it's mac only :p

I'm almost there now though, as most of the samples I had were SHITE. I mean, drums that were so horrible I'd rather use a screaming frog as a snare.

Wait, that could be brilliant....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ADimuGVlw

Pada · Post by **Pada** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:18 pm

I'm sure Macs "finder" thing is good for this kinda thing.

but if i say that i will look like a mac fanboy.. oh shit too late

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:44 pm

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