A reply to http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7519/ … mple-pack/ (I'm too new a user to bump the thread):
Hey. The Amiga ST Sample Pack is a cool pack of samples, and I like the way they sound a lot. The problem is that they're all mixed together. You have synths with drums and stuff - it's all over the place.
It would be really great if it were sorted by type (e.g. Synth, Percussion, String, Woodwind, Sample, Piano, Bass, Guitar, etc). Looking at the pack now, it's really, REALLY large (over 100 folders), and so I don't think I could do it quickly under my own time. However, I'm up for sorting through some of it myself.
Would anyone like to help me sort it out?
Update 6/19/12 - Finished ST-01, partway through ST-02.
Current folders:
Accompaniment
Bass
Brass
Pad
Percussion (Xylophone type stuff) - Sub-folders: Bass Drum, Clap, Conga, Claves, Hi-hat, Snare, Tom
Piano
Plucked (Guitar, koto, stuff like that)
Sample (Voice samples, sound effects)
Synth (Lead-style synths that don't fit in elsewhere)
Woodwind
I've changed the headers on all the files to play back at 11025 sampl/s, since that's what most of them (~95%) are. I've also done some rearrangement, into a hierarchy similar to what the OP suggests but mainly with a slightly more diverse percussion directory.
I've uploaded a RAR here:
https://rapidshare.com/files/3607947402/st-xx-new.rar
Sorry I didn't finish the file rearrangement; it was mostly searching the filenames for obvious stuff like 'bass', 'snare' and 'string' and then manually tidying up afterwards. About a quarter of the categorization has been done.