Organizing recorded samples

Elektron Gear Digitakt
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Hi everyone, brand new and happy owner of a digitakt ii. I would like some advice on workflow, can’t seem to find a good answer:

When I work I sample a lot on the fly, resample, etc. So I end up with a lot of files in the “recorded” folder. After having a few projects it is very messy. Which is the most efficient way to organize what’s in the recorded folder?
I’d like to have for example, everything sampled within a project into the project folder.
Any tips?

Thanks a lot for your help, best.

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On an individual project, it’s pretty easy to do (your situation with a backlog of projects organised this may need a bit more planning.)

Steps for one project:

  • save your project with transfer. This includes all samples used in your project including those from the recording folder.
  • Delete the samples from the recording folder that are used in your project (should be just all samples in recording if you’re only dealing with one project)
  • Using transfer, make a 2nd copy of your project on the DT2, from the backup. Transfer will notice the missing files and offer to restore them. One of the options will be to restore them to a projects folder.
  • reload your project. It should now point to files in the folder for your projects (a subfolder of projects)
  • The 2nd copy of your project on the DT2 can now be deleted.

I do this frequently and have never had a problem. But by all means be cautious and take backups beforehand, if you’re concerned about losing something.

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Thanks!

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What’s helped me is setting a strict session habit: before starting a new project or when wrapping up a big session, I immediately export everything I want to keep into a clearly named project folder using Transfer. That way my “recorded” folder stays temporary by design. It’s a bit of extra work upfront but saves a ton of time later when you’re trying to find that one perfect snare or weird texture you made two weeks ago.

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just to be sure, when you reload the original project after the process, will digitakt automatically find the samples in the new folder created?

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Yes, both the old and the new project will point to the new location of the samples.

EDIT: Slight qualifier to that … as I said above the old project, if it’s currently in RAM, will need to be reloaded. The in-RAM copy of the project will still be pointing at the now-deleted old samples.

@Jord.Lim :point_up:

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Too easy :pray: