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Three years ago I started organizing my samples by key signature...
I used to just dump everything into folders by genre and hope for the best. But I was at a friend's studio in Santa Tecla last month and he showed me his system where every loop and hit is tagged by musical key. It took me about 4 hours on a Sunday to re-sort my whole library but now I can find a bassline that fits in C minor without scrolling through 50 random tracks. Anybody else ever restructured their sample library and had it pay off in the middle of a session?
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the_riley9d ago
man i really felt this one. i spent an entire rainy saturator day doing the same thing last year and yeah it was a slog but man has it been worth it. there's nothing worse than having a good idea hit you and then spending twenty minutes clicking through random files trying to remember where you put that one dusty drum break. it's like the difference between having all your tools laid out on a bench versus having to dig through a junk drawer every time you want to fix something. glad you stuck with it, that four hour investment pays for itself every single session now.
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