![]() ![]() Use what works for you and your team/company. Just note that there are no industry-standard naming conventions. If you need a starting point on how to organize your sounds and what naming conventions to use, you can go here to see how Tim Nielsen of Skywalker Sound does it. I don’t think you have to go as crazy as most people say you do, but there are plenty of upsides to being at least moderately organized. You should at least have some degree of naming conventions and folder structure set up to make things easier on you. I can hear you screaming now: “Akash, you steamy mug of hot chocolate, we should ALL be using an in-depth folder structure for our audio!” And I don’t disagree. ![]() Search around and see if yours has this feature. I’m sure other DAWs have something like this, too. In Reaper, it’s called the Media Explorer, and in Cubase/Nuendo it’s called the Media Bay. Honestly, any of these options will work great.Īlso, if you’re using a DAW like Reaper or Cubase/Nuendo, they already have sample managers built-in. If you’re curious what the big game companies use, they tend to go with more expensive options like Soundminer and Basehead. It also has a paid-for subscription that will get you a bunch of extra goodies. Soundly is neat in that it comes with some free sound effects. The ADSR Sample Manager is great So are other alternatives like Soundly and AudioFinder. No more poking through folders for hours or relying on the god-awful file system of your OS. Seriously, just download it Point it to where all your samples live on your hard drive, let it index them, and boom. There’s really no excuse not to use one If you want a fire sound, and you can simply type in “fire” into your app and instantly gain access to all of the fire sounds you have, why shouldn’t you use one? This also prevents the need for a ton of extremely complicated organization in your library. So, an app like the free ADSR Sample Manager can radically speed up your workflow when it comes to finding all the samples on your hard drive. Or god forbid a sound designer starts manually clicking through a complicated array of folders, previewing hundreds of sounds before they find one close to what they wanted. It always pains me to see people finding sounds without an app Especially when I see someone just open up the default finder or explorer on their computer and just start typing “give me that squishy good sound please thank you.” When it comes to organizing our sounds, giving the responsibility of keeping things organized to audio library software is usually the best way to go. I’m on to you) our offloading of responsibility can be far more wholesome. Thankfully, considering none of us are government agents, (except for you, specifically. And in some cases, offloading responsibility can be a very good thing. In this case, whoever did create them decided to offload the responsibility of dealing with them to someone else. No government, agency, radio station, or company has come forward and said “oh yeah, we made these weird apocalypse cubes.” What’s most fascinating is that no one is taking any sort of responsibility for sanctioning, maintaining (yes, even though many started broadcasting during World War 1, some are still doing their thing today), and using them. It’s often believed that these are used for spy transmissions, but no one can really be sure. It turns out that these stations stick to a strict schedule, repeating numbers every hour or half-hour. ![]() Have you heard of numbers stations? You know, those ludicrously creepy radio stations that just repeat numbers over and over?
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