Organizing...

How do you guys organize everything? My S1000 has only limited ram so I can't load all my samples every time. It doesn't have folders so I can't store everything I used for one beat in a folder so I can remember. I save my samples as Sample 1, Sample 2 and so on. Now that I have started really accumulating alot of samples I can't remember what samples I used for what beat so I end up loading all of my samples and all of my drums. This will soon be a problem when I have more samples than ram! How should I organize when I don't have folders? By the way saving all the files I used to a different floppy everyt time won't work cause I just started saving to zip disks. Help Me OUT

Can anybody help me?

This idea may or may not help you, but it inspired my desire for an S1000 back in the day. If you have a SCSI port on the S1000, seek out computer software to transfer your sounds to the sampler. This will allow you to store and manage your samples on your Mac/PC and avoid using your floppy drive.

To find the software, look thru the Akai pages at www.synthzone.com

Peace.

I would use the zips to store every sample i have and name the samples so you remember what they are, like "IMPEACH DRUMS" for example. Then when i made a beat i would resave all the samples loaded in the S1000 memory to a floppy or 2 if needed, and label the floppies e.g. "BEAT 1". So then you can easily load up just the samples for that beat. I would use the zips only for storing my samples.

If you really don't want to use floppies then look into partitioning zips. You could for example partition a 100MB zip into 20 5MB parts, and use 1 part for each beat. Sorry that's all i know about using partitions, my ASR-10 has folders!

Thanks for yall's help. I will try the partions thing once I get my zip drive to work. (look at my thread in the Studio Environments forum)