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Originally Posted by syburn
How do you all use your libraries and what software to play the samples?
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Try to keep things structured and it will save you a lot of grief later on. Keep all samples in the same folder (i.e. not in random places all over your drives/partitions) and create subfolders for different instruments or instrument families. One for basses, one for drums/percussion, one for strings etc. Or by developer, if you have a lot of stuff from different library developers.
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Originally Posted by syburn
How much should one use these library samples as it seems a bit cheating
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Not sure what you mean here. Cheating? The samples were after all created to be used for music making so cheating as opposed to what... playing all instruments you want in a tune yourself? Unless you happen to be Stevie Wonder that isn't always feasible. It depends on what you mean by "samples" though. Multisampled instruments or loops?
Loops can be used for "cheating", yes. And before any techno/electronica/hip hop guy bites my head off, let me add that I've heard people do incredibly creative things with loops, but there's no denying that a lot of clueless people are using loops to build music Lego-style. Look ma, I made a song! Try to use the loops in creative ways, mash 'em up and make them your own, and you won't have to worry about anyone considering it "cheating".
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Originally Posted by syburn
and is it legal to use them in your tracks?
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If they came on a CM disc it ought to be perfectly legal, but don't take my word for it. Surely there's some license information that came with the samples?