Browse, tag, and preview your samples
without leaving your DAW.

Search & filter

Free-text search plus five filters you can stack, and every tag on a row is a filter you can click. Search matches every word you type across name, tags, key and pack, and can be scoped to where you are.

• Instruments — 808, Bass, Brass & Woodwinds, Claps, Congas, Crash, Cymbals, Drums, Guitar, Hats, Keys, Kicks, Live Sounds, Percussion, Piano, Rides, Rims, Shakers, Snaps, Snares, Stab and more — plus any custom instruments you add.
• Genres — Ambient, Cinematic, Country, Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Future Bass, Hardstyle, Hip Hop, House (with nine sub-styles), Indie, Pop, Techno, Trance, Trap — plus your own.
• Key — filter to a musical key.
• BPM — a tempo range, or an exact BPM.
• One-shots / Loops — hits only, loops only, or both.
• Click any tag chip on a row — or in the now-playing bar — to add it as a filter. Reset clears everything at once, and Save as Smart Folder keeps the combination.
• Empty results say so plainly (“No samples match your search”), and hover hints are on by default for new installs.

Instant preview & Match

Click a row and it plays. Turn on Match and it plays in your track.

• Click the waveform to seek; the row you're on stays the "now playing" one even after a short one-shot finishes.
• Match has four states — Off, Key, BPM, Both.
• Match Key transposes the sample to your project's key; Match BPM time-stretches it to your project's tempo. Both together use an independent pitch/tempo engine (Signalsmith stretch), not varispeed.
• Set the project key and tempo by hand, or let the plugin take them from the host.
• A small pill on each row shows the semitone shift that would be applied.

The now-playing bar & mini player

• A bar pinned to the bottom of the window: cover art, name, tags, and the sample's own key & BPM.
• In Match mode the key/BPM captions switch to show the target ("→ D#m", "→ 90").
• Transport controls — previous / play-pause / next — and a volume slider.
• Floating mini player — press Cmd+P for a compact player you can resize all the way up to the full browser layout. It remembers its size and position.
• Menu-bar Quick Access (macOS) — click the icon at the top right of your screen to reach your tracks without opening the app. Search your scanned projects and click one to open it in your DAW, or open a project to see and play the samples it used. A Tools tab has Find Samples and Import Folder, a now-playing strip keeps the player in reach, and Open Full App is one click away.
• Space pauses and resumes in place on every list, play buttons show a live equalizer, and Back/Forward walk through your real browsing history.

The list

• Sortable columns — Name, Time, Key, BPM.
• Pack cover art on every row — your own custom packs first, then Splice packs, then whatever's found walking up the folder tree; click it to scope the list to that pack.
• Favorite anything with the heart. Built to stay fast on libraries of 30,000+ samples.

Reference tracks

A pinned References folder for the finished songs you mix and master against — kept apart from your sample library.

• Drop a track onto the sidebar row, or straight into the list while References is open, to file it there.
• The track's waveform lives in the now-playing bar, where you can scrub through it — and a reference track's page shows just that track's info, not everything else in its folder.
• Sortable Artist and Genre columns shown only in this folder. Artist is guessed from an “Artist - Title” filename and stays editable; Genre comes from the track's tags or a one-click picker. Sort either column to group the list by artist or by genre.
• Drop a Spotify link to pull in the artist, cover art, release, label and monthly listeners, and run a Reference Info scan to fill in release date, label and bio from MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

Custom sample packs

Your own named groupings of samples, with their own cover art — separate from playlists, and meant to be found by that art rather than browsed as a folder.

• From a sample's "…" menu — Add to Pack opens a searchable popup of your existing packs (fuzzy-matches as you type), or Create New Pack to name a new one and drop the sample straight into it. New packs start with a generated placeholder cover — set real artwork whenever you feel like it, no prompt forced on you up front.
• All Packs — a pinned row in the sidebar opens a visual grid of every pack you've made: cover art, name, and sample count, all in one place. Click a tile to open it; right-click for rename, artwork, or delete.
• Rename a pack any time from its own page or the grid — its artwork carries over.
• Drag a pack straight onto a playlist in the sidebar to add every sample in it there in one move (or use "Add All to Playlist…" from the grid if you'd rather not drag).
• Click any sample's artwork to open the full pack it belongs to and see everything else grouped with it.

Folders, subfolders & Smart Folders

Drop a folder in and Sample Organizer rebuilds its structure for you.

• A dropped folder tree becomes nested sidebar playlists, and every folder that holds samples becomes its own pack. Drop onto empty sidebar space to make a new top-level playlist.
• Open any folder in a Finder-style nested tree, as Row or Cover view.
• Drag to organize — drag a subfolder onto another to nest it, and drag samples or whole sub-playlists between packs and playlists, including every checked one at once.
• Select samples or folders and choose New Folder with N Selected to gather them in one move.
• Rename a pack's name, artist, genre and cover right in the row, and drop an image on any folder to set its artwork.
• Names sort naturally, so “Kick 2” comes before “Kick 10”.
• Smart Folders save a search and filter combination and stay live, so new matching samples appear without any re-filing.
• Dropping a folder you've already imported asks Skip Duplicates / Import Anyway / Cancel, and you can remember your choice for the session.

Everything it can scan for

Every scan runs automatically as samples come in, or on demand across the whole library — and Run All Scans chains Key/BPM, phase and tagging in one click.

• Auto-tags — instrument, genre and character.
• Key & BPM — from the audio, with your own scan range.
• One-shot vs loop — sorted automatically.
• Phase correlation — flags stereo files that cancel out in mono.
• Sound similarity — a timbre fingerprint for “find similar”.
• Duplicates — identical files, found by content.
• Reference info — artist, release date, label and bio for your reference tracks.
• Splice packs — covers, key/BPM and tags matched to your downloads.
• DAW projects — every sample each project uses.
• Missing files — find what a project references but you don't have, and relink it.

Automatic tagging

• Instrument, genre and character tags derived from the audio and the filename, the moment a sample is added.
• Re-tag entire library to redo the automatic tags after an update — tags you set by hand are kept.
• Recognizes character, instruments and genres from the audio and from run-together filenames, and edits tags for many samples at once with the bulk tag editor.
• Custom tag rules — "if the name contains X, add tag Y" — for the sounds your packs name their own way.
• Editable instrument groups — decide which tags roll up under "Kicks", "Percussion", etc.
• See all your personal tags in one list and remove any of them with a click.
• Every scan shows an "N pending" count so you always know what's left to process.

Key & BPM detection

• Detected from the audio itself, not read from the filename. A key or BPM you set by hand is locked in and never overwritten by a rescan.
• BPM Scan Range setting — a floor and a ceiling you choose, so a catalogue number in a filename ("…3239736") isn't mistaken for a tempo. An explicit "128bpm" always counts, and audio analysis folds into your range.
• Reads keys and tempos out of messy filenames — “(C#min)”, “[Fm 140 BPM]”, “F# Minor” — and shows keys spelled out, like “D# Minor”.
• Won't guess: ambient pads, room tone and other non-rhythmic or tonally ambiguous audio are left blank instead of getting a confident-looking wrong answer.
• Re-detect Key & BPM, or just the key, or just the BPM — each leaves the other field alone.
• Results fill the sortable Key and BPM columns and feed the Key / BPM filters and Match mode.

One-shot / loop classification

• Every sample is sorted into "one-shot" or "loop" automatically.
• Drives the One-shots / Loops filter and the loop-only behaviour elsewhere (Match BPM, transient split, grid trim).
• A "Backfill" pass can classify anything that predates the feature.

Phase check

Finds the stereo files that vanish when your master sums to mono.

• Analyzes left/right correlation and marks files that are strongly anti-correlated as out-of-phase.
• Flagged rows get a light red highlight across the whole row - visible at a glance, no hovering required.
• Adjustable sensitivity - set your own correlation threshold in Settings instead of a fixed cutoff.
• Show out-of-phase only filter to audit a whole library at once.
• Toggle the row highlight on or off.

Duplicate finder

• Compares file contents, not names — so a renamed copy is still caught, and two different samples that merely share a filename never are.
• Hashes are cached with the file size, so a rescan only re-reads files that changed.
• A panel groups the duplicates with waveforms so you can pick which copy to keep and remove the rest.
• Playlist-aware — each copy shows which playlists it's in, copies already in a playlist are kept by default, and you get a warning before removing one that's in use. Select all and invert make big clean-ups quick.

Sound-alike search

• Computes a timbre fingerprint for each sample.
• Find Similar Sounds on any sample re-orders the library by how close everything sounds to it.
• Recommend Samples for This Track (when running as a plugin) listens to the audio on the track you're on and surfaces samples that sit well with it.

Analyze new samples automatically

One toggle runs tagging, key/BPM, one-shot/loop, phase and similarity quietly as samples come in, so the library is always ready to search.

Transient split — turn a loop into one-shots

Open the split panel on one loop or a whole selection. A live waveform shows the slice markers, and they update as you tune — nothing is written until you hit Split.

• Transients mode — onset detection with a Sensitivity slider; more sensitivity finds more, smaller hits.
• Grid mode — cut on musical divisions from 1/2 down to 1/64 notes (uses the loop's BPM).
• Exact count — type any number from 1 to 512 to cut the loop into that many equal pieces. Touching the mode, slider or grid reverts to automatic.
• Drop similar slices — a slider from "keep every slice" through Low / Medium / High to "drop anything similar", which removes near-identical hits (all the kicks in a bar collapse to one).
• Runs on many loops at once — the button reads "Split 12" when 12 are selected.
• Slices land in a Splits playlist, grouped under the loop they came from, and are kept out of the main library unless you opt in.
• Every choice — default mode, grid length, similar-slice strength, add-to-library — has a project-wide default in settings.

Trim silence

• Cut dead air from the start and end of a sample against a live waveform — drag the bracket handles, hear a live preview of exactly what's kept, and zoom and pan in on the edges before you commit.
• Save the result as a new file or overwrite in place; nothing on disk changes unless you pick overwrite.

Audio → MIDI

• Convert a melodic sample to MIDI with pitch detection and quantizing.
• MIDI files are library items: preview them with a built-in synth, keep them in their own MIDI playlist, and see their BPM and tempo.
• Optionally transpose to your project key, and choose from several preview sounds.
• MIDI never lands in All Samples or the library-wide tags unless you put it there.

Shape & rename in bulk

• Batch normalize — bring a selection to a peak ceiling, or match loudness to a target LUFS (off by default, so it's a ceiling-only pass unless you ask). Copies go to a "Normalized" playlist; originals are never touched.
• Fades on export.
• Batch rename — find & replace, numbered patterns, or separator and casing clean-up across a selection, with a live preview table; write it to disk or keep it as a display-name override; fully undoable.
• Generate Names — building a pack to sell or share? Give a whole selection fresh, evocative names like “Velvet Thump” or “Rusted Snap”. Each noun is matched to the sample's detected instrument, so a kick never ends up as a “Shimmering Pad”. Names are never numbered, you can re-roll until you like them, and nothing is renamed until you apply.
• Auto-format names on import — optionally tidy separators and casing as samples come in. It only changes the display name, never the file.

Curator Packs — send a curated selection

Select some samples (or a whole filtered view) and export a pack. You choose how heavy it is:

• Metadata only — a tiny file listing names, tags, key/BPM, which playlists each sample was in, and Splice pack IDs. The other person's library matches each entry to a sample they already own — by Splice ID, then name + size, then name — and rebuilds the tags, a playlist named after your pack, and each sample's playlist memberships. Anything they're missing is reported by name and pack so they know exactly what to download.
• Include audio — a self-contained bundle with the files in it; they can open it anywhere, no packs required.
• Export the current view, or just the checked samples.

Project bundles (.sopack) — send a whole session's samples

• Packages every sample a DAW project references into one zip: a manifest with the project's name, DAW, tempo and key, plus a samples/ copy of every file.
• No network needed to make one. Send it by AirDrop, USB stick, WeTransfer, email — whatever you already use.
• When your collaborator opens it, it can import straight into their Sample Organizer, extract the samples to a folder, or ask each time.
• Duplicate filenames inside the bundle are de-collided automatically.

Shared folder — keep a project in sync

• Point Sample Organizer at a folder inside Dropbox, iCloud Drive or Google Drive.
• "Publish [project] to Shared Folder" drops the bundle in; the cloud service moves the bytes.
• Your collaborator's copy, pointed at the same folder, auto-syncs new and updated projects down — and the same works in reverse.
• Manual "Sync Projects from Shared Folder" too, if you'd rather pull on demand.

When a shared project is missing files

• Find Missing Samples in a Project lists what a received project references but you don't have.
• Relink Missing Files repoints them from folders you choose, size-matched so it doesn't grab the wrong file — and it's undoable.
• A project's header shows "M of N samples" whenever some referenced files aren't present.

Drag to your DAW — and convert on the way

Drag any row straight onto a track. The export can be transformed as it leaves:

• Format — MP3 / FLAC converted to WAV.
• Sample rate — keep the source, or force 44.1, 48, 88.2 or 96 kHz.
• Bit depth — 16 or 24-bit.
• Start at first transient — trim leading silence, for one-shots, loops, or both.
• The standalone and mini player windows minimize while you drag, so they stay out of your DAW's way.
• Fit length to grid — snap the exported length to 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32 notes.

The dragged-samples folder

• Exports go to one stable folder — ~/Music/Sample Organizer/Dragged/ by default, and you can change it — so your DAW never loses track of a dropped sample between sessions.
• The folder is pruned, never wiped, and names stay stable.
• Optionally keep a copy of every dragged sample as a running record of what you've used.

Scan & browse projects

• Point it at folders of project files — Ableton, Logic, FL Studio and others — and it finds every sample each project references.
• Per-project view — that project's sounds grouped by instrument, under a header with its key, tempo and DAW.
• All Projects — every scanned project's sounds in one browsable list, each project as its own labelled section.
• Add more search locations any time; the count of found projects is shown in the sidebar.
• Open any project in your DAW with one button, heart your favorites, and keep notes on each project.
• Tick several projects to mark them Done or Active, rescan, or remove them in one go.

Match your Splice downloads to their packs

• Pulls pack cover art, key/BPM and the pack's own tags onto the samples you downloaded from Splice.
• Run it on demand, or auto-sync new downloads as they land.
• Your Splice samples get a dedicated section in the sidebar, kept out of All Samples, and can only be deleted from the Splice tab so you can't remove one by accident.
• Pack covers stream in progressively, so big Splice libraries open without a blank wait.

• Undo / redo on every change — tagging, renaming, moving, splitting.
• Folders, playlists, custom sample packs and favorites for hand-organizing.
• Drag files or folders onto the window to add them — or drop them onto a playlist, pack or folder in the sidebar, or into the list while that folder is open, to file them there in the same move.
• Collect and Save a playlist — copy every file it points at into one folder and repoint the playlist to the copies, so clearing out a source folder somewhere else can't break it.
• Drop a pack into a playlist and the originals are safe — the audio is copied into Sample Organizer's own storage, keeping the pack's subfolder layout, so you can delete the source right after. Or turn on Copy Files Into Library on Import to do it for everything you drag in.
• Remove from this playlist takes a sample out of one playlist without touching your library or your other playlists.
• Edit many at once — tick samples or packs and set Key, BPM, Artist, Genre or artwork for all of them. A blank field stays blank; it won't be re-guessed behind your back. Edit just a pack's displayed key and BPM, or push it down to every sample inside.
• Collect All Samples, and Run All Scans to chain Key/BPM, phase and tagging in one click.
• Clean Up Library removes entries whose files are gone and merges duplicate rows.
• Stays quick on big libraries — launch no longer waits on a Splice re-sync, and removing a whole playlist or pack is near-instant.
• Nothing on disk is moved or modified unless you explicitly ask.
• The whole library is a tag database beside your files, not a copy of them.
• Adjustable UI scale (25–100%) and eight color themes — seven dark and one light (Arctic) — built for long sessions.
• A resizable sidebar, and a Settings window that remembers its size.
• Runs as a plugin or as its own standalone app. In a narrow plugin window the sidebar tightens automatically so the list keeps its room.

Screenshot Mode

• One toggle in Settings › Appearance swaps every real sample and project name on screen for a neutral placeholder derived from its tags — a kick becomes “Kick 03”, your unreleased track becomes “Project 7”.
• Made for sharing screenshots, recording walkthroughs and posting demos without leaking client names, unreleased titles or the exact packs you pull from.
• Purely a display layer — your library, tags and files are never touched. Flip it back off and everything reads normally again.