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The backup thread just reminded me of this.

Does anyone ever 'purify' their libraries every so often?

Of course, I mean sacrificing all your samples to the gods, with a gift of goat blood and virgin tears.

I just tend to backup all my old sample and tune libraries, pull out the really important albums and samples which I love, and start all the way from the beginning again. I've never really looked back at the shit I trashed, and it just leads me to believe that so much of the stuff on there is just a waste of space, and remnants of a hoarder mentality. I just find everything gets too cluttered and slow after a while. After spending 5 billion hours getting everything back in order again, just with a nice clean sheen to it, feels amazing.

As faggy as it sounds, it goes with the whole Buddhist idea of things constantly changing. I got it from some weird legend that they have an ancient mirror in a temple and every century or so, they smash it to bits and build it up again.

Feels good man.

yeah, good to let go of things.

always giving away old books, clothes, etc

doing that is impossible for me. I find it extremely difficult to part with things, no matter how useless or stupid they may seem. And it's not just files and stuff, it's a lot of stuff I own. They just tend to hold a lot of sentimental value and getting rid of them feels like throwing away memories

Don't worry, you'll be dead soon.

I just skimmed through around 2 gigs of samples from a CM dvd and I think only about 3 samples caught my attention as being useable. I'm pretty picky, but I do have a lot of crap. Someday soon I'll reorganize, but more often I go through old samples and clean them up and make em nicer...like an update. VSTs are easier to let go of.

meer wrote:Don't worry, you'll be dead soon.

Yeah I'm sorting out my music library atm but when it's sorted I'm gonna go through my sample library, layer up multiple hits so I have some decent punchy sounds and then trash the originals/remainders.

Really do not need 300+ snare hits when I reach for the same 2/3 every time

if you posted them online somewhere as a backup, you could always drop the link here

that way the samples can live on without you, scattered to the winds

300 hundred snares lol. I've got thousands. And can use more. Finding just the right sample is so fucking hard, and not because there are so many, I might go through a few thousand before I find something that sounds just right. Anyway, I find a lot of ideas going through shit, and often, I find shit I wasn't even looking for. I don't know, I look at the gigs and gigs of samples like fertilizer - it smells like shit, but you can grow some wonderful stuff out of it.

nowaysj wrote:I look at the gigs and gigs of samples like fertilizer - it smells like shit, but you can grow some wonderful stuff out of it.

If I was the sig kind of guy, I'd sig that

nowaysj wrote:300 hundred snares lol. I've got thousands. And can use more. Finding just the right sample is so fucking hard, and not because there are so many, I might go through a few thousand before I find something that sounds just right. Anyway, I find a lot of ideas going through shit, and often, I find shit I wasn't even looking for. I don't know, I look at the gigs and gigs of samples like fertilizer - it smells like shit, but you can grow some wonderful stuff out of it.

This you can never have too many samples

I'm going home and casting off my worldly possessions tonight after work.

Yeah i delete sample which I hardly use, from time to time, to keep my library organized. Deleted like 30gb of samples in the last few months.

nowaysj wrote:300 hundred snares lol. I've got thousands. And can use more. Finding just the right sample is so fucking hard, and not because there are so many, I might go through a few thousand before I find something that sounds just right. Anyway, I find a lot of ideas going through shit, and often, I find shit I wasn't even looking for. I don't know, I look at the gigs and gigs of samples like fertilizer - it smells like shit, but you can grow some wonderful stuff out of it.

Hold on a sec..... Do you actually make tunes with drums in Noways?

ha ha ha, you'll never know

yo noways, wtf is yr default picture of?

That's me getting shit on by a giant translucent elephant.

i go on huge downloading sprees and then end up deleting the majority of it. i now have about 10gigs of refills and 10gigs of other samples, not including big sample library collections. that's still way too much tho. you can never have too much but sometimes having too much means that the quality can get lost amongst all the waste.

Did it twice.

The first time, my HDD crashed, and I panicked. I mean, gigs of samples just vanished with no recovery option at all.

The second time, I noticed I kept reaching for the same sounds. Turns out, 95% of them were downloaded from the net. I felt sick, and deleted the whole hundred or so gigs of sounds.

Now, I have a small sample library. Not because I'm done with sampling, but because I'm sampling the majority of sounds myself. I mainly just use a record app on my iphone, or samples from all kinds of stuff. Only stuff I have downloaded, are old drum machines, certain breaks.

It's a bit harder for me to make tunes, but I'm enjoying it that way.

most of the samples I use I paid for and are smaller parts of a whole...

like 3 diff snare sounds = one FSTZ snare

I have gigs of stuff I havent even listened to

keeps it all exciting for me

so in short, no I refuse to douche my sample library

I could ditch the "reggae accapellas" pack that are over used if I wanted to

Its strings with me....

12gb of strings.

Anyone need any string samples?

YYYYEEESSS!