How To work with our Samples (without Cubase MediaBay)

For our Drum libraries we decided not to make preset files or so called "loading patches" or "sound-banks", because we think, among other things, that most producers build their own drum sets suited to the actual production. For those who are using Steinberg's MediaBay you can skip this and read our manual "How to use our samples with Steinberg's Media Bay"
If you have no MediaBay or a comparable tag browser we have also created special file system which lets you browse more easily through our sounds. So that your production flow hopefully is not controlled by long searching times.

File Structure: Drum Samples

Example:

HiHat_ahh_03-2a_m__yummybeats_bbv

• The first part "HiHat" specifies the instruments or the category
• The second part "ahh" specifies the sounding of the sample. This description is currently only used with voice samples.
• The first of the Numbers "03" specifies the sample and also the sample's category number. This means that all samples with the same category number only vary a little bit, for example by the "sounding color" or pitch etc.
• The second number specifies the format like mono and stereo (1=stereo, 2=mono). This number is only for the right order in your file browser (stereo samples always on top) and has no further meaning. This number is only set, when necessary for the right file order. In most other Libraries this number is completely missing.
• The Letters (a,b,c,d…) specify the subcategory to describe a different sounding color for example.
• "m" simply specifies mono samples ("s" or "st" for stereo)
• "bbv" is just an abbreviation of the library's name. In this case "beat box voices".

File Structure: Loops

Most of our loops are very complex and they consist of several instrument tracks like kick, snare, bongo_1, bongo_2, HiHat. To give you the best creative freedom we have also recorded every individual instrument track of each loop.

Example:

holl-lp-002__bongos_dry [93 BPM].wav

• The first part "holl-lp-002" specifies the loop within the library. In this case it's loop number 2 of the Holla Loops library
• The second part "bongos" specifies the instrument/track of the 002 loop
• "dry" specifies weather this loop has been recorded dry (= without any reverberation FX) or wet (= with some extra room on it)
• [93 BPM] specifies the tempo. In this case 93 beats per minute.