To expand on the answer above, if you are trying to get varying dynamics of drums or something like that, normalizing might be counterproductive, whereas if you have lots of let’s say hi hat samples at various volumes, but when you play them you want them to be consistent, then normalizing would make sense. It just depends on what effect you want.
For your specific situation it might be worth adjusting the volumes of each of the samples manually to get them consistent, but still with the desired dynamics between them.
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