how do you organize samples?

[Antee]

how do you organize samples in the SP 404? do you have one card for drums, one for basses, one for samples ecc... do you load only the sounds that you need? do you use banks A and B for samples and the other banks for drums and basses? i'm confused about that.

[MrZian]

I use a heap of cards and its really hard to get organised. But what I try and do is. Keep Bank A and B as working banks. So i get samples from a whole bunch of different cards and copy them to bank A or B as I need them. Then when im done with a beat i will move that to completely different performance card, that will have all my samples for a particular gig.

[balazs]

I'm not really an organized person in general and the more organized I try to make a card the more fucked up it becomes. So I just try to take it one beat at a time.

[fauna]

yeah, i use multiple cards too, which gets confusing quickly. but what i DO do (do) is organize the types of samples all in the same way.

so, i always have drum sounds on bank J. that way i know whatever card i put in, that's where the drums are. build my patterns from there.

on each piece i end up using the drums from J over stabs and stuff on pads 1-12 in each bank. so in each bank i try to organize stuff in the same way (bass sounds always on same pads, chords on the same pads, etc.). in this way i've sorta developed a framework i can use.

but ultimately, i end up making a LOT of notes in notebooks. patten banks, sample banks, pads, effect info, BPM, and then settings for guitar stuff that i'm doing over top.

its a headache i guess, but if you org. yr own system, you can find a way that worx.