Storing Breaks or searching?

Maybe a stupid question, but do you guys store all your breaks (sample, program, or sequence) on CF's for the convenience, or do you prefer digging through your own crates for breaks? Before I had an MPC my entire sound library was a few mouse clicks away, but with the MPC I'm starting to understand and enjoy the creative process involved in building a track. Thoughts?

err its a sampler, so you sample, and hopefully save good samples. after long time you have your own library. dosnt matter if its on cf card or hard drive, or did you mean stuff you buy like loop packs. in the old days you didnt have a million libraries to choose from, so most people made their own and saved to floppy disk. I lean towards making my own libraries of stuff i sample and find. Takes longer but means you have your own sound. Though I wont say no to a free sample pack, but loops for me are not worth buying when i can make it myself see. Sure it might take me a while but thats half the fun

also alot of the time.. ppl only use a handful of drum breaks on an entire album, this is from a bit of an oldskool standpoint but still.. i know i will make a bunch of beats reusing the same breaks etc from the last few beats ive made coz i have that dope snare or ill kick drum ready to go.. and then keep advancing on those sounds.. ya digg?

and ofcourse over time, a good crate digger/sampler will have a well evolved library to turn to.. stored in whatever medium, it dont really matter so long as its safe and easily accessible..

peace!

some folk, myself included, might work on a track, print to tape and then switch off the sampler, nothing saved. its quite refreshing actually
i've certainly heard of 90s house/techno producers working this way

I'm talking more about sampling on the fly. So generally ill find some loops first, chop them up or just loop them then ill find my drums. But instead of having a drum library saved at your convenience, you can search through some records for breaks that will fit nicely with those loops. Like say you found some samples and laid them out, your next step might be "lets see if a Lou Donaldson break will compliment these loops".

mpcidiot wrote:some folk, myself included, might work on a track, print to tape and then switch off the sampler, nothing saved. its quite refreshing actually
i've certainly heard of 90s house/techno producers working this way

Good idea!

astral_Signal wrote:I'm talking more about sampling on the fly. So generally ill find some loops first, chop them up or just loop them then ill find my drums. But instead of having a drum library saved at your convenience, you can search through some records for breaks that will fit nicely with those loops. Like say you found some samples and laid them out, your next step might be "lets see if a Lou Donaldson break will compliment these loops".

I work like this sometimes but not with drumsamples. Its more like playing a sequence or a loop from the MPC and looking for some instruments (samples) to add directly from the turntable. Pro of this method is the very fast direct access of the sample without all the process of sampling, trim... whatever. You can speed up or slow down and use the EQ on the DJ mixer. Its kind of DJing. If it won't fit in sound, tune or tempo -> up to the next track on the record. If it fit -> sample.

peace

I work like this sometimes but not with drumsamples. Its more like playing a sequence or a loop from the MPC and looking for some instruments (samples) to add directly from the turntable. Pro of this method is the very fast direct access of the sample without all the process of sampling, trim... whatever. You can speed up or slow down and use the EQ on the DJ mixer. Its kind of DJing. If it won't fit in sound, tune or tempo -> up to the next track on the record. If it fit -> sample.

peace

This is exaclty how I do it, press play, and match samples from vinyl straight away.

I never had any structure in mapping/organizing samples or breaks..

I just can't lol.. I need to start from scratch with each beat..

peterpiper wrote:

astral_Signal wrote:Its more like playing a sequence or a loop from the MPC and looking for some instruments (samples) to add directly from the turntable. Pro of this method is the very fast direct access of the sample without all the process of sampling, trim... whatever. You can speed up or slow down and use the EQ on the DJ mixer. Its kind of DJing. If it won't fit in sound, tune or tempo -> up to the next track on the record. If it fit -> sample.

peace

interesting method
thanks for the tip

all of my records that have good breaks, i organize them away from my other vinyl. like in a seperate crate. so in the future instead of picking up random records and just seeing what i can find, i know exactly where my breaks are and grab a handful.

thats actually what i do when i buy records, the first thing is i skim through to find breaks. i wont use them right away, ill just organize them and use them when the time comes.

i also categorize my vinyl by genre/style (ie rock, rnb, jazz, classical, etc.)

i hate not being able to go right to what i want

on the pc, whenever i find breaks, i'll save them and put them in their own folder, same with individual sounds.

libraries are categorized, so should your studio