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Over 8 years I've collected and mostly purchased all these drum samples and for the first time I looked at how many I have and it came to 72,241 samples (Thats not including the steven slate drums, komplete 9 ultimate drums, ableton drums/I also enjoy making my own from scratch). Like personally I would like to have maybe a couple hundred, I find it overwhelms me when trying to find a kick or snare etc.

I discovered Myriad (http://myriad.aurchitect.com/) and it seems like it can do what I want + more. Suddenly I'm realizing that I could adjust the volume of all the samples, normalize, re-name the files all under one program - Which if your like me, doesn't make the creative process feel stagnant due to doing everything under one program.

It's $80US. Sure that's alot of money, but the question is, is it necessary? I'm learning toward yes, however the reason I am creating this thread is to see if there are programs that

A. Do the job better and are less $ (or more)

B. Are ways to go about this without having a dedicated program

C. Hell ya have a dedicated program! This is our career (for some), take it seriously!

What do you think?
Worth it?

Uh, how will that program solve your issue you started with that you have too many samples to dig through?

I think what you need to do is simplify your browsing/samples. Maybe start by creating your own custom library of drum sounds as a start and simply copy the samples from all the packs you have into a central browser sorted by Kicks, Snares, Hats etc. I spent probably 6 months at one stage doing that and it has worked much better for browsing.

AudioFinder is another app that you might want to take a look at...

http://www.icedaudio.com/site/

I think this is a case where I rather wait for an AI-based solution, even as I got Audio Finder some time ago. What's needed IMHO, is that a tool can analyze content and at least tag samples based on that. Second to that a fast way to evaluate and find samples in context and thirdly to tag mark manually as fast as you can think. Ableton could do a lot there, though I guess they prefer to sell samples in the form of their packs. A tag or content oriented system could help producers find samples within their packs as well, so even so a much needed solution or if there is something better.

Myriad is my main tool for converting files and organizing them too, I think it works great. Back them up first, it's easy to make a mistake with the destination settings and erase things if you're still learning the app.