ADSR Sounds has announced the release of ADSR Sample Manager, a freeware sample management tool in VST and AU plugin formats for compatible digital audio workstations on PC and Mac.
ADSR Sample Manager aims to help users who own thousands of audio samples and loops, by providing an all-in-one solution for organizing, searching and browsing the indexed sample content. For added convenience, it works as a plugin right inside the DAW, with the ability to preview the samples in the context of your active project. Even better, the user can drag and drop the selected file onto the sequencer without ever leaving the digital audio workstation.
Even though this is the initial version of the ADSR Sample Manager (v1.0.0), the software is already stable and nicely polished. The user interface is clean and modern-looking, with the search bar and tag section on the left, along with the sample list and the waveform preview on the right. The workflow is intuitive and I was able to start using the plugin without watching any tutorials or usage tips.
The software will automatically tag the files after you let it know the location of your sample folder and the auto-tagging process worked quite well. Of course, some of the unlabeled samples (you know, the usual 1.WAV and such) remain untagged, but ADSR Sample Manager did a pretty good job at recognizing and tagging kicks, snares, effects, drones, vocals, and other standard types of sample content. The user can add custom tags to multiple files simultaneously, which is useful if you want to speed up the browsing process even further.
I didn’t run into any stability issues during my first couple of days with the ADSR Sample Manager and the CPU hit is almost non-existent. Other notable features include the ability to automatically sync the audio loops to the DAW’s tempo setting, compatibility with cloud-based platforms like Loopcloud and Noiiz, and support for multiple plugin instances within a single project. You can grab your free copy of ADSR Sample Manager right now on the product page linked below.
ADSR Sample Manager is available for free download via ADSR Sounds (14.1 MB download size, EXE installer, 32-bit & 64-bit VST/AU plugin format for Windows & MacOS).
7 Comments
Cedric Simon
onLooks promising!
Not a single idea on how you are supposed to make it work (it appears as a vsti but with no GUI at all..) though :)
Cedric Simon
onWell, retried several times and now it is ok! Woohoo!
animus
oni’ve tried several sample managers over the years and this is the first one i actually found to be useful. It scanned a vast collection of samples with no problem and applied tags pretty thoroughly. It integrates with the DAW just fine. My only wish is to be able to select multiple samples to add tags / change settings of more than one at a time.
Valentin
onIt seems very stable and great features – has anyone figured out how to tag multiple files at once? I’d love to be able to select a whole set of kicks from a library and tag them. Also would be cool to be able to tag the contents of an entire library with an identifying tag in one go. e.g. I just pulled in a bunch of hits from a dubstep library and want to be able to tag them as dubstep by selecting the whole library, or at least all at once with a multiple selection. Is it possible in this version?
_TIP_
onGreat vst!!! My only wish for the future is to be able to store the tags in the actual file metadata (like in the comments section or so) for use in other audio applications. Also, the multiple files tagging would be great as well!
Thank you ADSR for your amazing and so generous work!!!
Mariusz
onSometimes we don’t need any mixing / synth / samples tools but something like this tool – very useful.
John Egan
onI use Reaper which has a built-in sample manager, which plays midi and audio… but I liked the idea of importing a folder and having everything within it available in a simpler fashion… i selected a folder with saxophone audio samples… Some played perfectly fine.. Others sounded like weird Banshee wails from the underworld.. Nothing at all like the audio samples sounded when dragged to a track or played with Media Player…. Worthless.