Organising My sample Library - Help

[Kilo beats]

Hey guys, been a while since i posed anything, but i have been about, reading the Q&A's and generally lurking..


but yeah, now i have a question for you lot...

I have like 80GB of samples on my PC, and its a nightmare to find the right samples while producing, i spend most of my time skipping through samples just to find something decent and im fed up with it taking so long.

I have about 50 - 60 sample packs and folders with sounds/ samples in, and recently i been thinking i would like to just go through each sample pack and dig out the samples i like, putting all the loops in a folder, all the stabs in a folder, all the pads in a folder, all the bass one shots in a folder, etc, etc....

I have already gone through and re-named a lot of my samples, just by adding the key of that sample... eg "137 Blood Brother 09 Blips xtra Ckey", basically i find out what key that sample is then i rename the end of the file to say "ckey", this way when i am working on a track in the scale of C minor for example, i can just go to my search bar and type in "ckey", and every sample that is in C will come up in the search, making it easier to find samples in the key of the track im working on

anyway, im straying from the point...

what i want to know is your opinions on moving all my samples from all my sample packs into new respective folders, like i say for example all my pads from my 50 odd sample packs into one single "pads" folder

I wanted to know what people think of this before i do it, as it will be kind of hard to un-do it if it all goes tits up

thanks,

ps trying not to sound like an asshole but i have been producing about 7-8 years now and i would like to hear what people with more experience than me think, so please only offer advice if you know your shizzle, again sorry, but im not trying to take advice from anyone with less experince

[Eat Bass]

i have the same problem. the problem i have with doing this is i have a few go to sample packs and im afraid to start separating those incase it all goes tits up. i started organizing my random drum sounds by making a folder called drums, then sub folders called like kick, snare, shaker, tambourine, etc. but i only did it to a small amount of samples after getting fed up. im really just afraid to seperate my go to smple packs because im afraid they will get too mixed in with my other samples and ill take even longer.

[Kilo beats]

i have the same problem. the problem i have with doing this is i have a few go to sample packs and im afraid to start separating those incase it all goes tits up. i started organizing my random drum sounds by making a folder called drums, then sub folders called like kick, snare, shaker, tambourine, etc. but i only did it to a small amount of samples after getting fed up. im really just afraid to seperate my go to smple packs because im afraid they will get too mixed in with my other samples and ill take even longer.

exactly my point. There are a few go-to sample packs i always use too

I mean, logically I will never use even half of the samples i have on my HD, yet im always on the lookout for the "next big sample pack", this is a problem.

I listened to a talk by Gregor Zemljic (SAE Lecturer)



in that video hes talking about tuning your drums to the scale of the track, but in another video he suggests going through your sample library and just keeping the stuff that you like and deleting the stuff you dont, from what i understood he said to keep refining your sample library to the point where you only have a handfull few drums that you use and delete the rest.

just not sure what the best plan of action is, Sample selection is a bitch at the best of times...