Sample library

Right then.

Stop pretending you dont use samples and tell me what you keep in yours. ;)

Here is a list of mine.

Dummachines Series.

All the major drum machines sampled and seperated into both instrument catagory and manufacturing catagory.

Funky Junk

My comic trip round a junk yard with a hammer and a mic.

REal instrument samples.

Childrens musical instruments sampled with my mic and my hand.

Hits and Stabs

Lots of then, old skool and new skool

Vengeance Club sounds Vol 1

Vengeance Bass

Vengeance House Vol 1

Treated Desk feedback

Ibanez Loops

(Loops i made run through an ibanez smash box dist unit)

Ethereal Vocals

and many many more that o cant remember..


Samples.. how do you eat yours? I generally make a point of trimming my samples, taking away the ones i dont like... i know i know YOU NEVER NOW WHICH ONES YOULL USE... well sod it i got rid of em anyway, that way i know my sample library backwards and can abuse it more eficiently...

Chris.

At the moment, I have the samples of a Computer Music cover DVD, and a load of those DoruMALAIA sample packs.

Jeez.. you'd a thunk i asked for a go with everyone's mother...

I like those dorumaaia sample packs... they're quite good.

vindaloops1 and 11
xxlarge no kicks vol1
xxlarge no kicks vol2
kamamaja moto
kamamaja bass
kamamaja fxkeys
kama hewa
drum styles 3
abracatabla
thanhats
thansnares
thankicks
funky junk
toy samples
stabs and chords
retro samples

loads more besides that lot, i think i may have too many :lol:

Thanks dan... anyone else?

If ya'll dont want to reveal whats on ya drive thats fine, but how about some general tips for others regarding sample library management etc??

one thing i've learnt is to uninstall some, in the past i've had loads installed, and you can get caught up in auditioning every sample you have to try to find one you feel is right, this can really kill a session for me, so now i have them all on cd's, but only keep the ones i use regularly installed.

heres a ReFill unpacker for anyone interested...
http://www.mininova.org/tor/174703

my sample collection is fairly small...

techno trance essentials
lucas arts pack (love this)
loads of random bits pieces

ive looked and i 'think' its freeware...... sorry if its not :|

Funky House Producer
Roots of South America
Synthetic Drums 2
TR909 and CR78 sample packs I've found on the web.

thats it. I only use samples kits for drums and percussion as I really like to create my own sounds for everything else.

Nice one folks.

Anyone else care to share good practice when dealing with samples...

How about some editing tricks and tips.

In fact i'll start a seoerate thread for this.

Mines a mess at the moment...What I tend to keep in it though...

Drum hits - Loads and loads and loads of them.

Drum loops - bits of live drumming and a few really nice bits like some of the DSC stuff and the Chris Vrenna ones from CM. Also a few very basic 1 bar kicks and hats for chucking in when I'm creating synth patterns and can't be arsed loading a sampler.

Guitars - Lots, nicked from all over. And stuff I've played (or particularly my mate who's shit hot at making nice sounds on guitar but can't ****ing play in time.) cut into loops.

Multisamples - loads of basses 'cos I love putting these into acid and painting in note by note almost tracker stylee

Few vocal snippets.

Loads of FX noises and drones and feedback from my ceaseless pissing about...

this program is free [loophorse] and enable you to do wavbrowsing. nice :)

http://www.loophorse.com/

i have a shitload (sick!) of samplecds but don't use loads actually.

mainly kicks from Vengeance House Essentials (or Club Essentials)

+ some hat loops (if at all) from Techno Trance Essentials

... + a ride loop from dirty bass but don't tell him :cheese:

:lol:

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Originally Posted by stjohn

heres a ReFill unpacker for anyone interested...
http://www.mininova.org/tor/174703

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Maaaan thanks so much!

I've got about 25gig of assorted samples stored on my external hardrive. But all my good samples are already loaded into sample banks in my sampler