How big is your Loop/Sample Library collection?

[kcearl]

Over 100...i chose option 3 by mistake .

[Preston135]

if i compiled everything, pellas & diff formats ect, i'd probs have over a TB

[kacperson]

around 60 gb

[projektk]

250GB of loops amd counting. Plus reason, plus zebra, plus diva, cant go wrong. I usually construct an instrumental with loops when I want it to sound like a live band, I use original work for that weird tripped out magic.

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[Boonj]

I have a bimonthly cull of everything I don't use. It means I'm less likely to put something on the back burner and leave it there in purgatory.

[Persemone]

about 30 GB, although if you include the libraries of Omnisphere, trilian, Kontakt etc there's well over 120GB.

Most of my library is free loop downloads from the internet [there's a great resource over at KVR for free sources] and there are a few paid-for packs on there aswell. I used to be a loop snob, but then figured they were both a great source of material for FSU FX chains [never the same sound twice] and a great way of piecing together a track quickly. Sometimes I go back and work on the details, sometimes I leave it well alone.

In fact, just the other day I purchased Odyssey by Ian Boddy, which is a collection of cool sample packs I've always thought might be fun. The Zero-g sale mad the packs £10 each, which was too good a deal to pass up.

[shponglefan]

Well over 100 gigs (probably over 1 terabyte). That includes the EW Complete Composer Collection, Kontakt factory + some add-on libs, Battery and Omnisphere.

[msl]

62gb

[Rogue Ai]

Does it include what you have made yourself?

[horseface]

Probably less than a couple of GB which is mostly ambient field recordings. Don't ever use loops (other than my own) because that just seems like lameness.

[msl]

Originally Posted by horseface

Probably less than a couple of GB which is mostly ambient field recordings. Don't ever use loops (other than my own) because that just seems like lameness.

Its obvious this includes all your library... your own too.

[Synth Buddha]

Waaaaaaaaay over one hundred gigs. But that's partly because I'm getting into doing some soundtrack work again. Sample libraries are pretty darn useful for that kinda stuff.

[kholland65]

Stand alone loops, so not including the samples that are part of my synths and kontakt, about 40gb.

[GJ999x]

Originally Posted by projektk

250GB of loops amd counting. Plus reason, plus zebra, plus diva, cant go wrong. I usually construct an instrumental with loops when I want it to sound like a live band, I use original work for that weird tripped out magic.

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Amen to that

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[100th Monkey]

Probably around 30 gig, but I really only use a tiny snippet of that.

[portervance]

120gb, as much as my MPC can hold. Though out of that collection I maybe have only a gig or two of selected samples I actually like and use in production.

[futuredanny]

hey, thanks for all the great feedback. I'm surprised that so many people have more than 100gb of content. How would you go about managing and organising all those files? per vendor? per instrument?

[Synth Buddha]

Originally Posted by futuredanny

hey, thanks for all the great feedback. I'm surprised that so many people have more than 100gb of content. How would you go about managing and organising all those files? per vendor? per instrument?

Per instrument for the most part. I'm not a very organized guy, so I've never tried to categorize them or organize them in any way. There are EWQL libraries, Kontakt libraries, Engine libraries and so on. Keeping track of it all is... well, pretty useless, really. Heh.

And you get to more than 100 gigs quickly these days - just the EWQL CCC is around two hundred, I think. Single libraries can easily be 20-30 gigs each.

[Alfonso Muchacho]

22.2gb, now I feel inadequate

[Addixion]

With an 8TB thunderbolt drive I have almost 4TB of it filled to the brim with nearly endless instrument samples, loops, and etc...

I've estimated the commercial value to be worth in the $50,000 - $100,000 range.

This includes a shit-ton of stuff, though. Multiple full orchestral libraries, insane amount of kontakt libraries, an endless supply of drums, and of course scores and scores of sound effects and field recordings.

I try to have my computer downloading samples almost 24 / 7. Whether instrument libraries, drum samples, or sound fx, there is always more to be had. The shit is all on the internet, get it while it's hot!

How to organize? When I worked with one of Hollywood's top Librarians I learned some really great stuff. The best thing I learned was that your library should only have 2 levels of folders.

I have about 200 top level folders, and depending on what is their contents they might have anywhere from 5-100 subfolders. Never any deeper than this :

Category --> Subcategory --> Samples

Thanks to Ableton Live 9, which has a "Samples" folder that literally holds every single sample, I can actually see that I have :

1,264,227 samples

[smokingrobot]

can i include my vinyl collection? i sample loops and samples from it all the time. its over 1000 LPs and about 300 45s. not sure what that translates to in digital space terms though. its heavy as shit and sucks to move.

EDIT: i chose over 100gb. while i dont have many loop/sample packs, i have about 40-50gb of drums and other weird 1-shot sounds and some drum breaks etc. so add that to my record collection and we're well over 100gb.

[Barfunkel]

A few hundred megabytes of drum samples, mostly 909's .

Hundreds of crappy (I don't sample good music on principle) LP's and 7"'s that I've bought from flea markets, with the intention of sampling them one day.