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Author Topic: How do you organise your samples libraries ?  (Read 5520 times)
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« on: February 22, 2008, 01:02:15 PM »

Since I can't play at the moment, due to the fact that I hurt my right hand  Roll Eyes I'm using my free time to do stuff that I usualy don't do, amongst other things, this is putting  a bit of order in my studio  Roll Eyes

Reorganising stuff made me realise how big my sample and loops library is.
And I don't use 90 % of it  Shocked Not because it is no good but because I allways forget that I have something or don't find it back ! I sometimes even resample something that i allready have, because it is faster then searching for the samples.

A quick inventory showed me that I have around 40.000 samples and loops.
And NO organisation in that collection.

I wonder how you organise this ? The perfect solution would be some software database where you can make a catalogue with a description and a link to the sample. That way you could do a couple of searches with different criteria and directly listen to the sample that you want.

Any ideas ?
For me it had to work on linux.

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« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2008, 01:59:14 PM »

I dont know man Smiley
I've been ill for some time last year and havent made any music then, now that i started again I have much difficulty finding certain samples too, i just cant remember where I put them  Cheesy
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« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2008, 07:45:58 PM »

I'm dis-organized too...  Roll Eyes
We could ask Max El Belga, he's got a huge library of samples, it should be organized very well...
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« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2008, 07:51:41 PM »

Hmm.

It's not something I'm familiar with, I've not really made much use of samples.

Maybe I should watch and learn so I don't make the mistakes later Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2008, 08:59:04 PM »

I'm awful at organizing stuff on my PC, it's not just my samples libraries, but all my songs, graphics and video files is just a complete mess. My room looks like Hiroshima on a bad day too. I think i can beat just about anyone when it comes to keeping things disorganized.  Tongue
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« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2008, 08:17:50 PM »

Well, there was a Time when I used to organize my SoundFonts....
I do not anymore Shocked
I used to organize them by Name like this...

Piano_Grand
Piano_Compressed
Piano_Broken
Piano_Hard
Piano_Rhodes
Guitar_Clean
Guitar_Distorted
Guitar_Overdrive
Guitar_Acoustic
Guitar_Classic
Drums_Rock
Drums_Tama
Drums_Garage
Percussion_Orchestral
Percussion_Latin
Percussion_Indian
Percussion_Arabic


...now I have hundreds of SoundFonts and I get discouraged by the Idea that I have to Organize all of them.... Shocked
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« Reply #6 on: March 05, 2008, 08:46:42 AM »

Well, I've found this : http://www.artservant.co.uk/zealey/zealey_software.htm

Only I don't have a windows daw anymore  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #7 on: March 05, 2008, 07:14:31 PM »

Some you win... Some you lose Grin
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