How do you organize your disks?

How do you organize your disks? I find it pretty confusing (more irratating actually) having to sift through endless kicks, hi hats, snares, etc... Do you already know what drums you want to use for a certain beat then just load them onto a disk or have your disk with drums already then just load them on your mpc. Also how do you name your drums ex:crash1,2,3.... It's hard to keep track after a while.

name them by what they remind you of......like for me i put "swizz synth" "dre kick" "shor cra cymb" "deep 808" with underscores and slashes....hope this helps

I have a main "library" disk with stuff divided into folders like KICKS, SNARES, HATS, CLAPS, BASSES, WEIRD, etc.
I name the sounds with the instrument type at the end - abreviated...
For example KK=Kick, SN=Snare, HH=HiHat...
...so a sound might be like... EARTH-SN1 or MONEY-KK2
I always keep them 8 characters or less so I can put them in the computer.

Then I keep a separate disk for projects I'm working on. On that disk I save the .PGM file and the .ALL file for each track I'm working on....and name them both the same thing.

No matter how organized everything is, I still have to scroll though loads of crapp to find sounds that are right for the track. It can be pretty irritating, yep.

I don't use kits anymore because of the slow loading times. Even though I use a hard-drives/zips/and cd's to hold em, it can still take a while to go through 100 kicks just to find 1 that sounds decent. I sample my sounds straight from modules, and this way, I can edit them any way that it needs to be moulded, and stack them any kinda way. Seems to work for me. ANother good thing with not using kits is that you never have to worry about over using certain sounds too much.

I try to set up the snares, kicks and hi-hats in horizontal lines across the pads. For example, pads 1-4 will be hi-hats and then 5-8 will be snares, etc. But then, the problem is this. Let's say on Bank A I've found the perfect kick but then the matching snare is on Bank B, for me to play it out in real time, I have to go and adjust the program (moving the snare from Bank B to A), which is always a headache. Any of ya'll have a better technique?

not that i am in any way organized but i set up my pgms with:
pad5.snr1 pad6.snr2 pad7.hat2 pad8.cymb2
pad1.k1 pad2.k2 pad3.hat1 pad4.hat3 or cymb

that is my main guideline i setup the rest of my samples wherever from there. as far as your problem Remedial by putting the pgms together in the computer where i can use mpc editor i am all set as i can easily get the right snares for my kicks and preview it all before i start working.
it all depends on the song though, if i am just beat expermenting i just load up a pgm i like the sounds of and bang around and sort out the beats, the go back and tweak the sample selection for the drums later.
if i am workin up a beat to something my friend wrote or we are writing on guitar we just kinda decide what kind of kit we want (electro, 808, abstract, acoustic) and build it from there in mpc editor.

by sticking to my guideline on where i put my main drum elements i can easily just load up and scroll through different pgms to try out different sounds with the same beats.

beyond that i am very unorganized and hopefully someone will post some good method on here. cause the more sounds you have the worse it gets.

I organize them by short words like for my dre kick 1 I use"drekck1". It works for me.

I have about 4 Zip disks with my drums I have a Grimy Drum disk I created kinda like shadows and I have a kanye drum Kit and I have a MV - 8000 Drum kit also one I just created kinda like heat makers ...

When I hear a sample I know witch one to select

i usually organize my drum samples on Banks B,C,D....i put my kicks on pads 1,5,9,13

for my snares: 2,6,10,14

for hats: 3,7,11,15

for shakers, claps, bells, etc...: 4,8,12,16

i usually use bank A for horns, strings and sampled melodies....

it works for me...just develop your own system. believe me, you will eventually

the best investment that you can make as an MPC owner is to purchase MPC Editor!!! you can get it @ midicase.com... that is probably the one thing that everyone here can agree on. you have the ability to create your programs using your computer and you can preview the sounds as you do it. that program will save you hours and hours of headaches and make composing your music alot easier and faster...

just my $.02

i use reason redrum to brows threw the thousands of drums i have on my PC and sample them strait to the MPC

Saves so much time