Hello All,
I have discovered that my sample
library has grown considerably over the past few years thanks to sales (Samples from Mars), the purchase of a field recorder, and the included sample packs that come with hardware.
However, I am discovering that my sample management system isn’t helping me at all.
Until recently I was keeping loops in folders based on bpm, with a different folder for single hits.
However, some samples are certainly duplicates (same sounds from multiple sources, like the loops packs included with hardware from the same company).
So how do you manage your samples? Do you keep everything you come across, “just in case?” Or do you delete things you probably won’t use? Do you instantly convert everything to a certain format like wav or aiff at 16/44 (for example)?
How do you track duplicate sounds with different names, or do you even worry about it?
I’m ‘trialling’ XO and really like it for musical use. Makes it very fast and easy to access all samples as it categorises them by audio spectrum rather than tags.
I wrote an app that basically indexes all wavs on my disks and let me do some search based on criteria that are relevant to me. Then it does basic conversion and copy when needed.
How do you track duplicate sounds with different names, or do you even worry about it?
I had installed the ADSR Sample Manager but soon I reognized that it is not possible to uncheck the “allow to collect my data” button in the free version.
I don’t want to pay with my data!
XO seems to be popular. License € 129,-
Is Sonoym https://www.sononym.net/ a known and fast alternative? License € 89,-
wouldn‘t call it a sample management tool at all. You can do drums with it and add folders which get analyzed for similarity and then kind of categorized / sorted by its characteristics in a sound cloud.
