how do you treat your (drum)samples?

as many of us i have lots and lots of drumsounds and i am not sure which way is the best to deal with them working on the mpc. i do not want to use the same drumkits all the time so making certain pgms with different kicks snares hats etc. does not seem to be the right way. (except for pgms containing only samples from one specific machine of course)
first idea: i could create different pgms with 1 type of sound per pgm, so i would have one with kicks another with snares etc.. advantage i can browse through sounds real quick, disadvantage i can only access one type of sound at a time
second idea: put the samples into folders on the flash card and browse through them and pick out those i want to use at the moment and make a pgm with them

any other ideas?

you can treat them in a wave editor like wavelab or soundforge... then either put the treated samples back into the original program, or use bluebox to create new programs.
http://webpages.charter.net/dereese/gary/akai.html

You need to clone them in your editor first if you want the same sample to have some variation.

since i'm not a native english speaker (+ i was really tired yesterday) i probably didnt make myself clear: i have already been using bluebox and created lots of pgms with it but what i am currently thinking about is which is the best way to have my other samples (like 100 kicks and 100 snares etc...) accessible as fast as possible. having preprogrammed pgms is fine if you want one certain drumset but i like trying out all sorts of combinations so i just wanted to know how you guys do it.

I treat my samples like read headed step children.


Maybe you're asking how to organize them? A kick directory, snr directory etc... could be good. Devise a naming protocol that works for you. I've got one friend that just numbers them which I find annoying. I use descriptive abbreviations like 909kshrt...