newbie question- how do you guys keep track of sounds?

i reckon there's thousands of ways..... do you keep all your snares and kicks and percussion in seperate folders? so when you need to audition them they're all in oneplace? obviously people have " go to " kits , but what about all the hundreds of things that re scattered aimlessly everywhere. do you designate differences between your own samples and ones you maybe have bought?

just curious........

Folders would probably be your best bet.
Kicks in 1,snares in another,hats in other etc.etc.


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Yea use folders. But honestly I grab different drums for every beat I make.

Yeah,i mean keep them grouped together but don't keep using the same snare and kick for every track.Hopefully you have more than 2 of each.

Jacpot wrote:Yea use folders. But honestly I grab different drums for every beat I make.

Yeah me too. But these days I just make new folders for each project, so I have an actual memory of what drums are in the folder and how I used them. If I do it any other way I wind up with folders of sounds that aren't of any use because they have no context. I also keep a copy of the original sound (a break) in a subfolder and name all of the sounds I sliced from it (snare) with the inclusion of the original sounds name so I can reference it.

For example: Break32snare.wave

This way I know that the snare sample came from Break32, so I can hear how it was originaly used so I can get a better feel of its original context (how it was used first with the other sounds).

Hope this helps...

threshed wrote:

Jacpot wrote:Yea use folders. But honestly I grab different drums for every beat I make.

Yeah me too. But these days I just make new folders for each project, so I have an actual memory of what drums are in the folder and how I used them. If I do it any other way I wind up with folders of sounds that aren't of any use because they have no context. I also keep a copy of the original sound (a break) in a subfolder and name all of the sounds I sliced from it (snare) with the inclusion of the original sounds name so I can reference it.

For example: Break32snare.wave

This way I know that the snare sample came from Break32, so I can hear how it was originaly used so I can get a better feel of its original context (how it was used first with the other sounds).

Hope this helps...

Smart, I think Imma start doing that subfolder thing