Please share your saving methods/techniques...whatever!

The way I save on my machine is I create a new folder (inside of a folder I name "Projects) and save entire memory...that's for every new project I create! I noticed that saving this way makes a copy of all of the samples in memory and saves them to this particular folder with the project file (basically duplicating, triplicating, etc. all of my drum sounds). The major problem with this is if I load a kit into memory and only use a couple of sounds, the project will make a copy of all of the samples in the kit and save them to the new folder. Now, storage space isn't an immediate problem as I maxed out the machine with an 80GB harddrive, but I am concerned.

I'm not sure if this is the best way to save your projects, but this is the only way that's worked for me thus far. When I first got machine, I would just save everthing to a general "Projects" folder and overwrite the samples that were already there...that didn't work out too good for me and lost some good material.

Note: I added the MPC2500 to my studio to use along with my Fantom and I'm feelin' it...it's just COMPLETELY different from the way the Fantom saves. The fantom stores the samples on a card and when you use them in a song, it only creates a reference to it...so there aren't any duplicates, triplicates, etc.

Holla if you have some different saving methods/techniques that may be better for me! Any response is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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nevermind...did a search. the way I stated IS the best way.

I'm no expert but when I save entire memory I replace same files. I think that does it. Also how are you working your Fantom w/ your MPC?

Well if you start running out of space just start saving your projects on a computer.

But you probably have alot of time before you max your HD.

Has anyone noticed tho that as you save more and more stuff the HD becomes like ridiculously slow to scroll through?

I create a folder 260307 then save All Samples Progs / All Seqs / Entire Project.

If I come back on the same day to this project I create a DIR called 260307b and c and d.

Kinda like you would on a PC if you were doing project based work.

its all about folders... 3 - 5 programs per folder... I save the program (which contains all the samples) into the corresponding folder. Then I'll save each individual sequence (which usually contains samples from a couple programs) to that same folder... I try to keep samples from the same musician on one folder, too.

dablunt wrote:I create a folder 260307 then save All Samples Progs / All Seqs / Entire Project.

If I come back on the same day to this project I create a DIR called 260307b and c and d.

Kinda like you would on a PC if you were doing project based work.

I do it the exact same way. I've learned my lesson; I don't overwrite existing files at all anymore.

episode wrote:

dablunt wrote:I create a folder 260307 then save All Samples Progs / All Seqs / Entire Project.

If I come back on the same day to this project I create a DIR called 260307b and c and d.

Kinda like you would on a PC if you were doing project based work.

I do it the exact same way. I've learned my lesson; I don't overwrite existing files at all anymore.

So do you guys delete the older versions then, or keep them as well?

_Stilo_ wrote:

episode wrote:

dablunt wrote:I create a folder 260307 then save All Samples Progs / All Seqs / Entire Project.

If I come back on the same day to this project I create a DIR called 260307b and c and d.

Kinda like you would on a PC if you were doing project based work.

I do it the exact same way. I've learned my lesson; I don't overwrite existing files at all anymore.

So do you guys delete the older versions then, or keep them as well?

For me it depends on if I plan to go back and make edits to previously saved projects. For instance, if I make changes and save to a folder XXXd, I might still keep the edits from XXXc if I realized I didn't like how I edited XXXd. Usually, when I'm up to a folder XXXf, I'll delete folder XXXa, XXXb, and XXXc, keeping only the last three project saves.