How to use samples live effectively? How's Sam Aaron doing it?

[ethancrawford]

Ah, found it! I remembered that there was a discussion about managing samples a while ago.
(Not strictly to do with using them in a live coding situation, but it may still be of interest ).
See here:

Sample/Loop Management

How do you manage your samples and loops? Ok, this might sound off-topic. But it needs not be. Sonic Pi can do a lot with samples and there’s probably an appropriate way to handle those files. Been growing increasingly interested in the problem of sample/loop management. Basically, it’s too easy to start accumulating bits and pieces of audio and it quickly becomes difficult to find the ones you need. Sounds like it’s really not a solved problem. But it’s probably not such a “wicked” problem t…