by djnarrative | 8 Jan, 2015 | Reckorder Tutorials
I was doing some research on export settings from ableton and came across this forum post which suggests that you should always use 24 bit or above for editing to avoid any degradation of the audio file, as you will hear the difference with 16 bit. Thats to say even if you are editing an mp3 - convert to 24bit not 16 bit to make the...
by djnarrative | 3 Jun, 2011 | Reckorder Tutorials
Recently I've spent weeks going through each of my samples in order to create a database that i could really use. For too long my ever growing sample library was becoming increasngly more of a hindrance to the workflow having to listen to too many samples and found i tended to go to the same sounds for e.g kicks, as there was so many to look through, despite being in their in their own "Kicks" folder) On retrospect i think the reason was the time it would take to listen to them all and because i was still building the library and didn't know how the sounds compared with each other. Now though, having 200 high quality kick drums as opposed to 3000 kick drums is a big step forward for my workflow and made a massive difference to my music making (and workshops) so i thought i'd share my own method and couple of tools that can help organise large sample libraries. The first thing is that i have always used is to create a folder structure and then browse within the DAW. The structure has gone through many revisions but the current one is working really nicely and well worth the time investment. I think its the one i'll be sticking with and while its based around my own sample collection it may provide a solid starting point for anyone looking to create their own. So after much time and consideration my folder structure looks something like this. Bass / Loops folder - Samples folder Drum Hits / Broken down into different percussion folders Drum Loops / Broken down into...
