Organizing Samples

[djglenn]

How do you guys go about organizing your samples?

I've found that over the years, I've kind of cluttered my hard drives with samples. It starts out with one drive with samples; gets full....so add another drive; gets full...get another one.....delete stuff, change drives...etc..etc...
Now I'm planning to buy two new drives (one as a backup); maybe 1 to 1.5 Terabytes. Way more than I need, but thinking 'future expansion'.

So trying to get some ideas of how to do it from scratch. I'd love to break everything up into (snares, kick, bass, etc..) but am reluctant to break up the different sample packs, as they do kinda have their function as well as knowing where a particular sample came from in case of some legal issue. So I'm looking for a program that has some sort of database function that allows me to tag a particular sample (say a kick drum) in multiple ways so I can search for it later. (for example, I tag it "Kick" & "Electro Kick" and whenever I search for 'kick' or 'electro kick' , there it is). And of course, be able to preview it in the program.

Anything out there like that? Or another way to organize things?

Thanks!

[NuEra]

I'm not sure how to answer all your questions, but I thought I would share a program that I use quite regularly here for sound fx editing. From what you were describing, it sounds like it could be useful for you too.

http://www.soundminer.com/SM_Site/Home.html

[djglenn]

Yeah, that looks about like what I need. But this one's a bit too pricey for me. Anything similar to this at a lower price should do. Thanks for the suggestion.

[sven hauck]

I used to lump them all together then got tired of auditioning 1000 snares, so I left everything segmented as the package it came with.

[Medway]

I keep all my in the packages they came in as well. Especially as each one has its own 'sound' generally so this way I know where to go for certain quality of samples. I also have a folder of my custom made ones from sessions. One thing I've done in some of the sample packs is delete all the stuff I know I won't use to help clean up my choices.

[sven hauck]

Yeah, I guess I've deleted stuff too like trance riffs or snare drum rolls.