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Is there a way to rearrange the files and folders in your directory? I feel like my directory organization is really slowing down the works. I've created folders for each type of sample(kicks, snares, etc..), and whenever i want to save a sound to a folder i have to scroll through a laundry list of files searching for the specific folder. now once i find a folder (any one) and open it, then my folders become grouped together right after the root folder. why can't these folders be here the first time i open the root folder? please help me. i can't take it any longer.
could anybody share their method of sound/file organization? I need a good way to organize my sound library. thanks for any help

BTW, i'm using my mpc w/ an external 1 gb hard drive that i use to store everything.

the first question you should ask yourself is "how organized am I in my non-MPC life?" If you are the kind of person who saves every receipt and balances your checkbook at the end of every evening then I would suggest you keep doing what you're doing: organize your samples in tiny little folders and stop worrying.
However if the goal is too make music and you aren't the hyper-organized person in real life, perhaps you should stop trying so hard to keep your snares and kicks and bass hits in such neat little folders.
Ask yourself: "If I pulled up sixty-four samples from my hard drive at random, would I then be able to make sixty four beats?" If the answer is yes, then stop worrying: name it, save it, and forget it.
If the answer is no then try this: create a way of naming each sample that is meaningful on sight. For example snare083.wav don't mean much when you are going through your folders looking for that "killer sample." So do something else. It sounds like you aren't using the "mpc editor" or anything like that so you shouldn't have a problem naming or re-naming each sample before you put it into your hard drive. I don't know if you sample off of records or not, but here's something that helps me... Say I want to sample some of the reverbed guitar off of the first cut on the Kill Bill soundtrack. so i sample it and then immediately name it in a "meaningful" way. For example: "gtrkb1" for Guitar (gtr) Kill Bill (kb) track 1 (1). Now, to anyone else, this code may look like nonsense, but remember, the only person who needs to understand it is you.
Once you start giving your samples meaningful names i think you'll be suprised how much easier it is to scroll through your file menus.
The other trick is to form default programs... next time you are working on a track and it's just not sounding right, stop messing with it and instead work on creating programs that contain all your favorite sanres, kicks, hi-hats etc. Then save these as Drum Program One, Drum Program Two, etc. Then, next time you sit down you can just load up one of these programs and start making beats right away with out having to f**k with file mangement chores at all.
And isn't that what we all really want, after all?

beatwad wrote:directory assistance

Is there a way to rearrange the files and folders in your directory? I feel like my directory organization is really slowing down the works. I've created folders for each type of sample(kicks, snares, etc..), and whenever i want to save a sound to a folder i have to scroll through a laundry list of files searching for the specific folder. now once i find a folder (any one) and open it, then my folders become grouped together right after the root folder. why can't these folders be here the first time i open the root folder? please help me. i can't take it any longer.
could anybody share their method of sound/file organization? I need a good way to organize my sound library. thanks for any help

BTW, i'm using my mpc w/ an external 1 gb hard drive that i use to store everything.

Open window on root folder and select new instead of whatever other folder you are opening and put your main folders on the first page of the root file. It's going to automatically alphabatize the folers if I'm not mistaken it's been awhile.