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.

• 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 to add it as a filter. Reset clears everything at once.

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.
• Menu-bar mini player (macOS) — an optional compact player that lives in the system menu bar so you can audition without the window up.

The list

• Sortable columns — Name, Time, Key, BPM.
• Pack cover art on every row, found by 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.

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 everything after an update.
• 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.
• 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.
• Max BPM Range setting — so a catalogue number in a filename ("…3239736") isn't mistaken for a tempo. An explicit "128bpm" always counts.
• 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.
• An amber circle-slash badge on the row, with an "Out Of Phase" tooltip.
• Show out-of-phase only filter to audit a whole library at once.
• Toggle the badges on or off.

Duplicate finder

• Compares file contents, not names — so it catches renamed copies as well as byte-identical ones.
• 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.

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.

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 across a selection with a live preview; write it to disk or keep it as a display-name override; fully undoable.

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.
• 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.

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.

• Undo / redo on every change — tagging, renaming, moving, splitting.
• Folders, playlists and favorites for hand-organizing.
• 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 a dark theme built for long sessions.
• Runs as a plugin or as its own standalone app.