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By alamin Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:45 am
hello,
i've sampled a quantity of things, and now i can't find my samples...
indeed, i have mysample.wav but also the 16 sliced samples : mysample01.wav, ..., mysample16.wav

so there are lots of samples in the same folder...

how do you organize your samples ?


the problem is : if i do a project, and save entire memory in another folder for this project, it will
REsave samples that are in another folder....


i can't find a good solution to save things !

how do you do this ?

al
By FAMOS! Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:57 pm
This is my Work Flow Chart:



[KITS]
---> [Complete Drums] ---> [LOOPS]
---> [Complete Sounds] ---> [LOOPS]
---> [LOOSE Samples]

------------------------------------------------------------

[SONGS]
--->[Completed Songs]---->[Copy Written] ------>[C. Inhouse]
------------------------------------------------->[C. Sendouts]
-------------------------->[UnProtected]-------->[UNP. Inhouse]
------------------------------------------------->[UNP. Sendouts]
--->[InComplete Songs]

--------------------------------------------------------------

[AUTOLOAD]


okay, now let me explain. i do this on my hard drive to insure space to save my work quickly. my start folders are [KITS], [SONGS], and [AUTOLOAD]. when you scroll through [KITS], you have a choice of [Complete DRUMS] these are drum kits, [Complete Sounds] these are sound banks and instruments, and the [LOOSE Samples] is where you can keep your kits you're working on and samples you downloaded or recorded. when you jump over to [LOOPS] from [Complete Sounds] or [Complete DRUMS] these folders contain completed programs of drum loops [Complete DRUMS] and instrument loops/riffs in [Complete Sounds].
when you are in [SONGS], [InComplete] are songs you're still working on. in this folder you can separate by project(album/songs for yourself or someone else). when you're in [Completed SONGS] you have the choice of [Copy Written]these have been tranferred over from the [UnProtected] folder and you own a legal copywrite to these songs; or [UnProtected] these songs have are done but not yet been copywritten. [C. Inhouse]/[UNP. Inhouse] are songs for yourself, whereas [C. Sendouts]/[UNP. Sendouts] are songs you've created for someone else.
[AUTOLOAD] is for whatever you want. I usually put frequently used kits in here and use it as my FAVORITES.

TIPS:
1.when saving a KIT, save ALL SAMPLES and PROGRAMS (though i only save one kit at a time)
2.when saving a SONG, save ENTIRE MEMORY (this way you can keep all your kits and sequences. always make a new folder unless you're overwriting(updating/editting).
3.when transferring a KIT or SONG: Load it then re-save in new location(ie. load from [LOOSE Samples] then save in [Complete DRUMS]/[Complete Sounds].

I hope this helps. Good Luck!
By alamin Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:49 am
Thanks a lot !
This helps well....

It's difficult at the beginning to find a good organization so that I can refind the things later !

Thank you !


And the others, what is your work flow chart / classification system on your MPC ?

al
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By poundaproblem Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:22 pm
Samples are loaded into folders, Kit sounds are in sub folders (kicks snares hats etc)

each beat/track gets a new folder and a number. I dont name them because its easier to catalog and come back to later if you know what number it is. Also after a track is composed I have a log book that gets the beats id number and all samples used incase I have to remake it. Thats pretty much it for me.

oh and BACK UP FILES ON A REGULAR BASIS.