I think this should be something to strive for so you can be truly unique in your musical creations. Personally, I think it is best to eventually extend out of your purchased and downloaded sounds and build your own original set of sounds. Also, if you have a sampler streaming the sounds directly off the hard drive, you may want to think about using more than one hard drive and breaking them up onto different drives so the sounds load faster. Usually orchestral sounds need to be on an entirely different drive unto itself because of the many gigs it uses. PC: Win + Enter or right click folder > properties Can they fit on one drive? Will some parts of the library grow over time and need extra space? The size of your samples: Will you need more than 1 hard drive?įigure out how much memory all of your sounds hold. If you are creating something that needs to have sounds which are royalty free, you don't want your DAW or some other audio managing program searching within sounds which contain unclear copyright restrictions.
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Sample libraries that require you to get permission first or have specific instructions if usedĪcappellas or files from other remix projects or boot leg / white label stuffīrown Notes (guaranteed to get sued and very messy)įree Use (because you purchased them, made them, or the license clearly says you can use them without restriction, they can be used with any project) Sounds from the internet with ambiguous permission In this folder, you may also want these folders:Ĭollaborations: sounds you've made with other people while collaborating (ask your friend first before using) Is this sound always okay to use or should it be approached with caution? Will I get sued if I use this sound? Separate these into two separate folders:Īmbiguous Royalty Sounds (sounds with ambiguous copyright rules). What do you want your DAW to access for music creation and what should be ignored? Will you need to separate some things to make it fit on another drive? Are some samples already on a hard drive or CDs and unnecessary to back-up? You probably don't want to back-up copies of sounds that you already have back-ups of to save space for things you do need back-ups of.
If you're having a difficult time finding something, try a new method or maybe you just need to get to know your library a little better.ģ THINGS TO THINK ABOUT 1. The first "rule" seems to be: Whatever method will help you remember where your sounds are is the best method to use. PLEASE add your own tips if it is not already mentioned and hopefully we can come up with an ideal method. I searched through the threads on r/edmproduction and there doesn't seem to be any extensive coverage of this so here is what I came up with from personal experience, tips from friends, and digging through the internet. I am re-organizing my sound library and never want to do it again.