drum library organisation

[Equality 7-2521]

how do you organise your drum libraries?

do you put ALL your snair, kicks, hats etc in their own floder?????

or

do you organise them by the environment they were recorded in...eg ambience, dry, natural etc etc????

im just thinking maybe i should change my tactic and organise them the second way so that i can match my drums up esier (at the cost of having less to chose from)

peace

 

[Ash Holmz]

yeah messenger i do it the second way u said.... i every time i make a beat i save the drums i used as a preset then organize htme into diffrent catergories..... i usually group them by the mood the drums put me in.... my main catergories are chill, funk, pow!!(those are my hard hittin gangta drums), ethnic, etc. i like to have kits at my disposal because i spend less time sifting through my endless drum collection.... iuse the kit and then like if one hh or a snare don't sound right then its easy just to search for that one snare rather than start from scratch every time and look for every piece.... sumtimes takes so long.... but i guess its whatevr works for you.... i would do it the second way u said though... if i did it the first way i would hundreds upons hundreds of hh to sift through evey time it woukld drive me crazy

 

[Craig Gantt]

Thats pretty much how I do it, except I get all confused and shit because I just learned that kicks and bass are the same thing and I got hard time placin those little effects.

 

[Fade]

I usually have all my drums organized by type. If I have a beat called "104", then in my Kick folder, I have a kick called "104". Same thing for all the other parts of my drums. I then have a seperate folder for the drum loops of that particular beat.

It makes sense to me, and I think that's the way it is with all of us! As long as that's what you're comfortable with, then do it.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Ive got external hard drives with tons of samples on em in my closet. My friends find a bunch of samples and they save em to those. I sort em out and kinda put the samples i dont really plan on using in one folder, then i break the rest down into: Rock-Type Kicks, Old Wu-Tang-Type Kicks, Dance/Club-Type Kicks, Atl Clap-Style Snares, Rock-Type Snares, etc.

Then i have another folder of sounds that sre straight crazy and dont even need to be sorted, because ill end up usin em next time i here em.

It dont sound organized but i usually remember sorting em out so its easy for me to find what i want.

 

[themucka]

I ALWAYS GO THRU THIS DRAMA AND SINCE I BEEN SWITCHING MACHINES UP
I HAVE BEEN MAKING DRUM SETS.. FOR MONTHS NOW..

AND I HATE IT.. IT TAKES ME DAYS 2 GET THE DRUMS THE WAYS I LIKE
ALL MY FOLDERS RIGHT...

NOW ON MY 4000 ITS ALOT EASIER.. I CAN HAVE A 128 FOLDERS LOADED READY 2 GO AND PLAY.. FOR MY SEQUENCE...

SO I CAN 300 DRUMS IF I WANT LOADED ON PADS..

SO I HAVE MASSIVE CATEGOIRES

RIGHT NOW THO IM BREAKING EM DOWN IN TO
KICK 1ST 4 PADS BOTTOM LEFT
SNARE 4 PADS BOTTOM RIGHT
HATS TOP BASS DRUM TOP ETC TOP
SND JUS BUILID AND TIGHTEN UP TILL IM SATISIFIED

TAKES ME A WEEK AT LEAST IM SLOW PLUS I GOT A AT 10,000 DRUMS... BUT ONLY 300 GOOD ONES