The Best Way To Organize Your Beats | How to Create An Effective Storage Workflow

[@babieboi_moni4904]

this is honestly the most professional apporch Ive seen since ive been looking at searching "how to videos." Keep it up man

[@ImIvanCalderon]

I appreciate that thanks for watching!

[@Juliano_DJOL]

Crazy your file storage, Icons, and drives are alot like mine! I have the same struggles! Planning to get a 8TB HDD one day to replace my (Vault Drive). This is such an under valued topic!

[@Gabriel_Mercado]

Gonna try this out, perfect for working with artist, and keeping organized

[@HarryLoveTV]

great system, gonna try this way

[@adwes1937]

Content was dope as always. BUT....... where you get those Star Wars icons and that wallpaper 🔥😏

[@ImIvanCalderon]

Haha here you go! Wallpaper: wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=671281 Icons: www.iconfinder.com/iconsets/starwars For the icons to work on a hard drive like I have them make sure to download the ICNS file for mac or the ICO file for PC!

[@innerbliss108]

Thanks man

[@ImIvanCalderon]

Any time!

[@ChristianMartt]

Thank you!

[@tipstimewithjoshklyn2652]

Ivan! Your videos are just a wealth of knowledge, thanks a lot man, very happy to have found your youtube channel :)

[@ImIvanCalderon]

Happy to hear that! Welcome!

[@justinswayne]

Just a pro tip I wouldn't tell people that a sample is a melodic piece of audio a sample is just audio. It could be a sample of a dog barking or a lawn mower, although yes, technically, all sound does and can be connected to music but no it doesn't need to have a musical or rhythmic element to it at all. A sample means actually what it says Sample = piece of something.

[@nickybproductions2229]

Just what I needed, thank you.

[@ImIvanCalderon]

Glad I could help!

[@toolondaboards]

This is gold. Def gonna take a few elements from this to improve my folder setup. 💪🏾

[@umbra5119]

this is such a helpful vid fr man

[@ImIvanCalderon]

I appreciate you watching and I'm glad you liked it!

[@andrevitorsantos]

Man! Really thanks for this video, I've been looking for a video like this for a long time. Please, show us the organization of your others folders too 🙏

[@andrevitorsantos]

and if you can, show us how you use notion for production work, I use it too

[@AlbertoDelacruz92]

Perfect guide, needed this. One question is that master's folder just for reference? Or do you sometimes use the wav files and throw them in a session.

[@ImIvanCalderon]

I mainly use them for reference when shopping beats but I also use those waves to record an artist. It creates a much cleaner session than to have a thousand files from the beat and the vocals. Then when the vocals are recorded I either bounce and import everything to a mixing session or just send everything to a mixing engineer.

[@lawarastudio]

👏👏👏

[@thephirebird]

How are you single clicking and not double clicking on your mac folders??? I need that lol

[@1eidji652]

Hi Ivan :) great video, I question it when we use several, for example in my case Fl studio, Logic Pro and pro tools, you advise to store all our productions in the same place, or to do a separate session folder for each daw? for example if I finished a production on fl studio I put it in session fl studio, the same for Logic which will end up in the Logic session folder, instead of putting the two files in the same folder

[@toolondaboards]

I use a folder for each DAW. Easier to know where each beat was created.

[@1eidji652]

@@toolondaboards interesting, in your daw folder you copy the same thing between the folders like for exemple in you pro tools folders you have ( imagine ) wav files + project files, for fl studio same thing, ableton to, and over and over… ? And for each files do you use the organizing technique from Ivan ?

[@toolondaboards]

@@1eidji652 Yes and my folder setup is close to Ivan's. I mostly use Reason and sometimes Maschine for production, so it's not a lot of DAW folders.

[@BuenoLaidley]

Is it necessary to store the individual trackouts (kick, snare, bass, lead, etc.) on my hard drive for future reference if I only do beat leases online? (seeing that individual instrument wav file for each beat can add to a couple hundred megabytes per beat). I know that the project file is a must to save as that only takes up a couple megabytes. I normally produce and mix in the same project, so I don't use the trackouts for anything other than uploading for beat leasing.

[@ImIvanCalderon]

You don’t have to. As long as you have the session you can always reprint track outs.

[@mindjab]

Fucking hell bro. This was just to much. I just save my exported beats into a folder. Then I zip the beats and put them on Another folder, on my backup Hard Drive. I Also upload my zipped beats to DropBox.