samples > Sound FX > ambient
___________________> voices

__________percussions > *most frequently used .wavs here*
______________________> ethnic > *bongos, tacs, tocs, rattles, bottles, etc*
______________________> asian > *kotos and such here*
______________________> african > *bunch of tac drums here*
______________________> sets > metalic
_____________________________> spectra
_____________________________> psy
_____________________________> hard
_____________________________> perc FX > *crashes, gongs, slides, etc*


yeah.. maybe that was overly complicated

What the hell is organizing?

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Latest releases:
Endless Cycles [Capital Heaven]
The Charlatan [Morphosis]

This sounds cheeky but later you'll realise it's the most helpful answer you got:

Work it out for yourself.

Mhmm..Most WAV Sample CDs have em ordered already.
I usually either create ISOs (in case of AKAI or different format) of them or copy em straight to my HDD in a folder named by the CD.

Well I organise my projects and sound assets.

I used to just dump everything into fruity's 'rendered' and 'projects' folder. After about 8 months of producing pretty full on, I found out that it became a fucking nightmare to locate a specific sound that I had used in the 400 or so project files I had amassed and the 1000 odd sound assets I had built.

So I started to get organised because it was just starting to take the piss.

I have a projects folder with 12 sub folders inside corresponding to the calender month and the year. i.e. may 2006, june 2006, july 2006.

Inside each sub folder I have my projects ofr that month, listed by day first, then provisional title, then revision number. i.e. in the May folder I have '01 random psy stuff 3.2'

Which means it was started on the 1st of May 2006 and there have been 3 major revisions to the project (i.e. the addition of an instrument) and 2 minor revisions (i.e. small level changes and a bit of shuffling around in the mix).

Inside each month folder I also have a sub folder called 'Wavs' and inside the wavs folder there are more sub folders corresponding to their projects. So for instance 01 random psy stuff 3.2 would have its own sound assets folder in the wavs directory called '01 random psy stuff sound assets.'

That would be where I keep all of the renders, recorded parts, samples for that particular project, named according to its place in the mix.

I find its much easier to find something from an old project now. I tend to remember vaguely what order my projects are in, so I can scroll to the relevant month, and take a listen to some of the sound assets. If I recognise some of them, I can find the corresponding project easily. Then I can take whatever assets I need from that project and import them into my current one.

I used to spend fecking ages, searching through old projects to find (for example) 1 fucking kick drum sound which would just sooo fit into my latest tune. Now its not really an issue.

My production got better as well when I started to organise my work habits and file everything properly. I tend to enjoy the whole process more now as I spend less time looking for things and more time actually doing things.

Running windows?

Make your folders (kickdrum, snare, HH closed, HH open, etc).

Now, start > Search > For files or folders

Choose whereever your unorganized samples are stored. Type *BD*.*

It'll return a bunch of files with BD in them. Cut and paste them into your Kickdrum folder.

Now, do the same for *snare*.*, repeat.

This will save you some work; what's left with weird filenames, listen to with your ears and put where applicable.

Oof. I never thought of doing it like that. Thats probably easier and quicker than my current method...

I guess it doesnt really matter so long as you have *some* kind of system going. If you just junk everything into 1 folder it can be a nightmare finding stuff

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Originally posted by DJ Shibby Running windows? Make your folders (kickdrum, snare, HH closed, HH open, etc). Now, start > Search > For files or folders Choose whereever your unorganized samples are stored. Type *BD*.* It'll return a bunch of files with BD in them. Cut and paste them into your Kickdrum folder. Now, do the same for *snare*.*, repeat. This will save you some work; what's left with weird filenames, listen to with your ears and put where applicable.

nice method

NI KORE looks like a promising solution to all those problems