I’m sure I’m not alone here in that I have a massive collection of drum samples on my HD. For example, while I love the Goldbaby samples, there are just too many of them! I’m looking for a way to quickly curate these samples into kits that I can then use in my sampler of choice (toraiz sp-16). I find that if I am ‘forced’ to work with a small number of samples I enjoy the process more and get more creative.
Any tips for curating my massive library into some nice kits as starting points? If anybody says ‘go through them and pick out your favourites’, unfortunately that doesn’t work for me. Once I start scrolling through 200 ‘Thermionic solid state kick drums’ my brain turns to mush and I give up.
I also go with Sononym, Random Metal is also good for creating percussion sounds. (Also allows drag n drop of Audio since a few days.) Works exactly the same as in Kick3. It allows quick variation of a sound, this way you can generate quickly the sounds you need.
Sononym is more practical if you also use synth sounds, or field recordings etc.
Dont be precious about it. The idea that some magic sample might be missed if you dont find it is a fallacy.
Find a number that works well for you, and the gear you use. Maybe its 10, 16, what ever. Collate samples into groups of that number.
Use sample chains if your sampler does that.
Make kits in one chain, or make chains of bass drums, snares, hats etc. Youll only need a few of each type of chain.
You can do alot with very little. Example my electribe MX has drum samples, they are ROM, cannot be changed for new samples. So your choices are fixed. Doesnt seem to matter though, I tend to use the same 3 samples for pretty much all kick needs, its what you do with the sample that counts.
In the case of a proper sampler… you can resample, which means taking a basic sound, adding fx and whatnot…then making new ones.
…as @deadfly suggests…what u need is total overview with ease…
and xo is the universal answer to all ur worries when it comes to perfect fly by and over aaaaall samplesnippet curation for next new sound kits…
Maybe you just pick the samples you’ve used in your (favorite) tracks so far and make chains of them? And then see if you’re even missing anything? Maybe that’s naive, depending on your workflow and amount of used samples.
But I tend to use some basic sounds all the time and variate them, so I‘ve just recently started to make some chains of one shot variations of my favorite ST and DN drum sounds that I can slice in DT. I know these work for me, while endlessly scrolling sample packs almost never does.