Drum sweetening strategies: Organizing your sample library

These days, you could find great sounding samples almost anywhere, from commercial…CDs, downloads on the Internet, inside virtual instruments, even samples that…you recorded from your own sessions or your friends' sessions.…So, a lot of times, I find that I have many, many thousands of samples on my…hard drive, and the problem becomes, which ones do I use?…Do I go through and preview all of them when I am thinking about replacing a…sample in a kit, or do I have let's say two or three go-tos that I use all the time?…I wanted to show you a cool technique for organizing your sample library,…using the Workspace.…

If you have Pro Tools HD or if you have the Complete Production toolkit or…the DV toolkits for Pro Tools LE or Empowered, what you can do is use…something called Catalogs.…A Catalog is a shortcut or alias system that allows you to organize stuff in…different ways, make comments on those that are outside the actual files.…So, it's not duplicating the file.…It's just creating a pointer or an alias to that file.…