How do you organize your programs?

Do you guys put all your snares, kicks, etc. into individual programs, or do you make kits by picking individual sounds and putting them together?

1 program for me:

A: 16 kicks
B: 16 snares
C: 16 hats
D: 16 various percussion

And then I have programs where i just add other non percussive samples.

I make individual sounds and put them together. I use Wavelab to audition sounds and then I dump them in the MPC. It is far too wasteful of memory for me as I am planning a live set for the future.

It's no problem keeping your sounds organised with Programs, because you can have multiple programs loaded and once and switch between them, easy access if you got the memory for it.
If you're trying to optimise things for a gig, make best use of memory, that's a different question, of course.

hfinal wrote:1 program for me:

A: 16 kicks
B: 16 snares
C: 16 hats
D: 16 various percussion

And then I have programs where i just add other non percussive samples.

if you do this, how do you 'play' the pads?

I have folders for each drum type (i.e. kick, snare, hats, etc..) stored on my CF card. When I'm starting a new song, I start from scratch with a blank program. Then, I load the "kicks" folder into memory, audition the samples in the program window until I find one I like and assign it to the first pad. Then, I purge all unused samples. This last step clears the memory of all the samples that aren't assigned to pads. I repeat for all the samples I want. When I'm done sequencing, I save the entire memory into a new folder so I have a completely self-contained song. I admit that it does waste space on the CF card because I'm copying the samples instead of using them from their original location. But having a self-contained song that contains all the samples in a single folder that I can backup and load at anytime makes it a good trade off for me. Anybody else here take this approach?

Now if I can only figure out which method of sequencing I like better -- 100% MIDI vs record in MIDI and convert to audio samples -- then I'd spend less time setting things up and more time composing

I program my prgms very sloppy... All different types of samples every where... haha...

aslinth wrote:

hfinal wrote:1 program for me:

A: 16 kicks
B: 16 snares
C: 16 hats
D: 16 various percussion

And then I have programs where i just add other non percussive samples.

if you do this, how do you 'play' the pads?

I have a similar setup with my programs. and to answer your question, you play the pads one track at a time. i have my hats, snares and kicks on separate tracks.