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Andrasia

Andrasia

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Hi There,

I wanted to know what was your workflow to organize your own sample library.
'Cause I'm a bit lost, from year I collected sound that I've record or modified heavily .
Usually I make them on the go when a project (mostly Trailer Music) need them (directly in the project session usually)

But For year I never really organize them (Their are just in the project folder where I create them, in wav) So usually I start from scratch every time!

And now I'm trying to turn the best into Kontakt Instrument so I can use them more easilly for next project, or when the inspiration doesnt kick in^^

I read some great inside from Charlie Clouser and I love how those sound can create a kind of Composer Sonic Universe .

But I'm kind of stuck for labelling and organize stuff so I wanted to know if you have some tips to help like naming convention advice or Worflow tips? Do you heavily separe stuff into category?

Cheers From France and Thanks!
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I use a sound library app, Sound Miner Pro
https://store.soundminer.com

That way I don't need to spend time organising my library on hard drives, it just accumulates chronologically on a Sonology NAS and I can find anything instantly using search terms (SoundMiner has a thesaurus built in) and can audition, tag metadata, sort/group material, manipulate it and transfer it directly to ProTools timeline (with the files transferred to my local work RAID)

Search is instant with 500k+ files...

I have seperate databases in Soundminer so I can search based on projects etc...
eg All sound FX, All Ambiences, Project based, ex recording session, etc etc

Basehead is another similar option:
https://baseheadinc.com
 
Thanks,
I've checked soundminer but not basehead!
But anyway I think I'm gonna stay on simpler folder organization, so I'm sure it will ""always"" be compatible and usable in the futur! Also I'm using reaper and there is a media explorer/datatabase stuff that's not so bad!

Now I just need to know if I put that distorted ebow pad into "pad" category or into "Guitar/Ebow/Designed" Haha^^ ;)
 
The problem with manually organising is that it doesn't scale...
The future is metadata
 
Andrasia said:
Hi There,

I wanted to know what was your workflow to organize your own sample library.
'Cause I'm a bit lost, from year I collected sound that I've record or modified heavily .
Usually I make them on the go when a project (mostly Trailer Music) need them (directly in the project session usually)

But For year I never really organize them (Their are just in the project folder where I create them, in wav) So usually I start from scratch every time!

And now I'm trying to turn the best into Kontakt Instrument so I can use them more easilly for next project, or when the inspiration doesnt kick in^^

I read some great inside from Charlie Clouser and I love how those sound can create a kind of Composer Sonic Universe .

But I'm kind of stuck for labelling and organize stuff so I wanted to know if you have some tips to help like naming convention advice or Worflow tips? Do you heavily separe stuff into category?

Cheers From France and Thanks!
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Hello, would you be able to share your sounds with me? I would like to see if I could use them to create Trailer music. Thanks
 
Hi,
Thank you for your interest.

But Im not interested in sharing them for now, I think it kind of important to have your own sound for trailer music ( and for other style too I guess) especially sound signature etc.

Cheers,
 
Andrasia said:
Hi,
Thank you for your interest.

But Im not interested in sharing them for now, I think it kind of important to have your own sound for trailer music ( and for other style too I guess) especially sound signature etc.

Cheers,
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Right, so just give me some sounds please. I know you don't use everything you have created. Give me the ones you dislike.
 
As I sais earlier Im not interested into share sound for now.
Sound that I really dislike and have no purpose, I just doesn't save them.

Cheers,
 
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