My Organization

[Freakwncy]

I notice that my collection of drum kits is getting out of hand. How do you organize your drum kits so that when you need to pick a replacement or a new sound, you can find it quickly and easily....[I use Reason, if anyone needs to know]

 

[Shonsteez]

Im not absolutely sure what you want to do - but if you mean to just prioritize tha sounds that are most important, there are a couple ways.
I like to make refills of my own that consist of certain kits and sounds so that i can just jump right in to them and not have to go to too many other places...thats only if there wavs by themselves that havent been packed already. Plus i include premade drumkits from other refills i already have - this iz really tha cool part for me - cuz now i can take from other refills and re-pack tha kits into there own refill which will always work as long as tha computer can see those sounds already exist somewhere else on your drive...this simply enables you to not have to keep digging through each refill for ever - im pretty sure you can do that with synths too - which i really dont do too often just cuz im lazy - but it does work as well.
But unfortunately for tha most part - you have to just know your refills if you dont want to get all technical, and just dig. I like to delete tha refills that are just wack or never get use and burn them on a disc for a rainy day so that there still there i just dont have to get distracted by them when there in my directory.

Does that help?...If not maybe give a little more defined explanation of what you need specifically aiiight!

Yo freak!...Also - my fucking computer iz still AWOL - so im really not making any progress with tha collab until its fixed.

Ill get at you though.
Peace

Steeze

 

[Fade]

My way is to have folders for each drum hit, and each sample. Each one is named to match the other sounds, so in KICKS I would have 040, and in SNARE 040, HATS 040, then in OTHER (main sample used) 040piano, 040strings. Then I also take it further by having 040b_strings if I have more than 1 set of strings for that track.

Pretty basic organizing, but even for me it gets out of hand sometimes and becomes a real mess because I'm in such a rush to start a track so that I don't lose my creative edge!

 

[themucka]

sound replacer... is tight....

you can put all your sounds in there...

if you don't like a kick... just use soundreplcer... pick the one you like...
and it will play the new where your old one use 2 be

 

[Ash Holmz]

when im usin reason if i like a p articular sound ill just save the setting and name it s new sound..sometimes i just export it as one really long note as a wav the n import back in and fuck wit it somemore so i dont lose all my cpu poweer...i need more ram somtimes my shit gets all slow and fuzzy

 

[Freakwncy]

maybe i was misunderstood... what it is....is that i have a folder named Drum kit inside that folder i have more folders named after where i got the drum kits from inside the where i got the drum kit from i have the sounds, but where I've got the sounds from have named them funky names...so what is a good way to reorganize all the sounds from all the different places into seperate folders [ie: kick, snares, hi's...etc..] without having to remap all of my kits i've named in Reason everytime I open the file again....

 

[Ash Holmz]

oh you mean inside a refill....thats a very good question..i was actulayy wondering that myself...i dont think there is a way too get into a refill...its mad annoying shuffling through sounds and folders

 

[Freakwncy]

here what i mean...and inside the folder to the left [ie:banginbeats, FullClip, etc...] they have sounds named all differently....it's kind of hard to explain...

 

[Freakwncy]

is this the best way to store your samples????

 

[Young Casius]

You could try zipping the samples and and unzipping them in whatever folder you want them in.