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Climax wrote:I organize by how I use the samples, for instance

Risers
Transitions
Atmosphere
Vocals
Breaks
Etc

I find that to be the most efficient, the rest of it is by instrument like

Bass- heavy/dark/bright
Drums -
Kicks- deep/topend
Snare- deep/high

You get the idea


Sorting out drums like that really helps save time

Theres nothing worse than listening too 100 completely random kick drums lol

Eat Bass wrote:the only problem is i have WAYYY to many samples to organize them all one by one like this. i might have to delete some samples :/

mitchAUS wrote:

Eat Bass wrote:the only problem is i have WAYYY to many samples to organize them all one by one like this. i might have to delete some samples :/

Rename your current sample folder to "unorganised samples" Make a new folder with all your new sub folders how you want to organise it and that. Then just go through your unorganised samples and drag sounds you like into the right spot in your organised sample folder. That way you don't have to organise everything at once. If you find 10 kicks you like stop going through kicks and look for snares, then move on to ur music loops or whatever. Once you have a relatively complete library of organised sounds write tunes with that. These samples could keep you busy for weeks or months depending how many you organised. When you feel like you have ringed these samples enough samples and your library is holding you back, you can go back to your unorganised folder, spend a few hours getting some new sounds into your organised folder. Over time you will have a very organised folder that you know inside and out. Ive just started doing this and it is really helping.

ps. Spent the last two days building up a logic template for me to use, this with an organised library will hopefully help my workflow

Project EX wrote:Mine is something like this:

Drums
- Breaks & Loops (sorted further into categories like dnb, live drums, uber breaks etc. basically packs)
- Kits (sorted per kit or per pack, 808, 909 etc.)
- Hits (single hits that don't belong to a kit, sorted into Kicks, percussion, Snare & claps. Each folder also sorted further)
- Custom (my own build stuff)

SFX
(a huge folder with alot of subfolders for each category like animals, body, household, metal, wood, impacts, stone, electronics, doors etc. the list goes on...)

Ongelegen
(my own recording, not included in the SFX folder so I have easy and fast access to my own stuff)

Instruments
(lots of multisampled acoustic instruments instruments, each in a subfolder)

Pads
(sorted in subfolders per type/style, don't actually use this one that much)

Wave Cycles
(Contains the AKWF pack)

Patches
Contains only my own patches organized per plug, but I don't save my patches as often as I should)

It's a very minimal library and I often shift through it and delete stuff I don't see myself using to keep it organized. I don't like having a huge library with too much choise as I spend waaay to much time searching for samples.

krispy wrote:Kinda unrelated but cool sound fx page in your sig!

Electric_Head wrote:I`m pretty piss poor with sample organization.
I have a samples folder, everything is in there.