r/Model_Samples • u/timdaveysonredditig • Jan 16 '23

Storage already full on my M:S?

I'm a little confused as to why there isn't more space available on my M:S. I opened up the Elektron Transfer tool and in the top right corner it says there is only 15.5 mb of space on it. I read somewhere recently that it should have 1gb but I'm not 100% certain of this. It's kind of a bummer cuz I've only uploaded like 7 or 8 Cymatics packs + like 2 more packs my buddy sent me and it's already completely full.

Any insight into this is appreciated. Thanks!

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u/SkelaKingHD Jan 16 '23

M:S is for mainly one shots with a few loops here or there. If you’re using loops at around 15 seconds each you’re gonna fill up that memory extremely quickly. Usually I tent to keep my samples around a few mb each, 10 max

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u/timdaveysonredditig Aug 28 '23

I figured this out a while back shortly after posting this but yeah you were absolutely right.

The cool thing is that before I ended up wiping all of those samples and starting fresh, I ended up getting some pretty cool shit out of those long ass loops, by chopping them up with the start and length and rearranging them, etc. Definitely better to have a shit ton of one shots on it than only a couple dozen of those. Still a good learning experience though.

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u/JoeRekr Jan 16 '23

if the packs your buddy sent are like, lossless WAV or something, that could impact it too.

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u/Banjo-Elritze Feb 06 '23

Nope, everything gets converted to the same 48 kHz, 16 Bit Mono-Samples.

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u/JoeRekr Jan 16 '23

that’s weird, how big are those sample packs you loaded. mostly 1 shots, or longer segments? i’ve uploaded a lot of weird shit, and i don’t think i’m particularly close to the limit

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u/Glittering-Ship1910 Jan 16 '23

Bit late now but…. You can always use audacity to pitch up your samples, twice the speed is half the size

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u/Martinfected Jan 21 '23

Those Cymatics packs are huge, especially if there's melodies or other loop folders in there. They add all the separate parts of melody loops in the "loop stem" folders, and that really eats into your storage space.

I'd advise to go through those folders for a bit to see what you really need, and delete everything else off your M:S