Dutch Tigers offer a FREE one-year SoundBuddy license to one lucky BPB reader. Learn more about how SoundBuddy lets you speed up your music production workflow in the article below.
Dutch Tigers is the team behind SoundBuddy, a new content management system for your DAW. A SoundBuddy license costs $30 per year and a perpetual license is available for a $75 one-time payment.
The developers have kindly offered a free one-year subscription to a lucky BPB reader, but more on that after we take a closer look at SoudBuddy.
SoundBuddy Overview
When I talk about software, whether it’s a tape emulation plugin or a virtual instrument, I usually mention the importance of a clean, no-hassle workflow. I’m not saying anything that isn’t already common knowledge, but I repeat it often because we still see incredible potential ruined by a clunky, tedious user experience at times.
In the spirit of working easier and faster, anything that promises to help us do that is worth checking out.
SoundBuddy aims to take away much of the tedious searching and clicking by storing all of your DAW content in one very organized place.
You can store samples, MIDI, and presets from your DAW in SoundBuddy for instant recall. Your content is stored in handy libraries, categorizing effects, instruments, MIDI chords, samples, and so on.
SoundBuddy will automatically attempt to tag it using file names as a guide as you import content. You can customize tags and even rate content as you add it.
Once you have SounBuddy packed with content, you can search by name, tag, or rating.
SoundBuddy’s DAW integration window stays at the top of your screen, making it easy to add content to your libraries or drag from a library into your project. It should save a lot of time on loading presets, as you don’t need to load the plugin first.
The libraries constantly monitor your DAW to make sure any changes are updated in SoundBuddy.
The DAW integration window also has some useful filtering and randomization options. It’s good to go random at times; we end up with so many sounds we forget what we have. Or, we can’t get over a particular hump, and we need something unexpected.
” You use your DAW to produce, mix and master. You create the coolest sounds with your instrument plugins and spice things up with your effect plugins. This is what you are good at! Now let SoundBuddy manage your digital audio content so you can work more efficiently, stay organized, and get inspired!”
SoundBuddy comes with 7500 free chords already in the MIDI Chords library to get you started.
I’m overly fastidious in many ways; I’m absolute chaos in other ways. So, I balance out as reasonably organized. But my small home studio still ends up with a spaghetti junction of cables everywhere; I just hide them well.
Routing cables neatly is like a lost art to me; I can never maintain it when dealing with more than a handful of cables going in different directions.
SoundBuddy seems like the digital version of what I need someone to do to my studio; make it as organized and well-kept behind the scenes as it looks on the surface.
SoundBuddy Giveaway
Dutch Tigers offer a FREE one-year SoundBuddy subscription to one lucky BPB reader!
To enter the giveaway, simply answer this question in the comments section below: What is your favorite DAW?
The winner will be announced on Monday, May 23rd.
Good luck, and thanks for reading BPB!
More info: SoundBuddy ($30 per year, $75 perpetual license)
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92 Comments
Konmario Romeo
onGimme That FRFR this my time bronem
Konmario Romeo
onIt’s Ableton Live
Jerry Yang
onLogic Pro is the greatest!!!
Aaron
onCubase
Ma pengpeng
onstudio one THE BEST
George M
onPresonus Studio One For Life :P
Krishna Seth
onFL Studio !!!
Jiri aka Rivermint
onAbleton Live
Willy
onAbleton live 11
Ralf H
onReaper. I am a bit of a nerd after all.
mx
onpro tools for editing and mixing, reason and ableton for beats, logic for price
(tried mixbus, fruity loops, cubase, havent tried studio one and reaper)
JEP1928
onFL, pretty good workflow
Secondly is Waveform it is Abelton-esque
Ronaldo
onMy fave DAWs are Harisson mixbus, Calewalk and Reaper…
Laci Janko
onAbleton Live
Jamie M.
onableton live gang !
Nikita
onMy favorite DAW is Studio one 5 artist for me at the moment it has a lot of functionality and a small price (for users of some presonus audio interfaces it is free).
KrispyKreme2014
onAbleton live ding ding
Andrew Hall
onLong time user of FL Studio. The gift that keeps on giving.
Synth Street
onMy DAW is ”Reason”
Jojo
onTracktion waveform and cakewalk
SATYABRATA
onWE R BROKE HAHA
Patrik Roncolato
onAbleton above it all
Klaus
onCakewalk by Bandlab
Simbarashe
onBitwig 4
Vishnu S
onFL Studio
Steven
onIt’s gotta be Cakewalk:)
SATYABRATA
onCakewalk by bandlab
Wagzar
onStudio One 5 Pro!
Chris
onReason 11 Suite!!!
Andrea Biasior
onMy top 3 daws RRR
Renoise
Reaper
Reason
Gery Zenz
onPresonus Studio One
Dimitar
onFL Studio
Laura
onCubase!
Ivan Grigorov
onCakewalk by Bandlab
Fotis
onAbleton and Bitwig for composition, Reaper for audio editing, sound design, plugin testing and overall nerdiness <3
Karl
onMy favorite DAW is Cubase because has the amazing capacity to work with it.
sam
onFL Studio Baby
Typikal
onReason Studio
Ramin
onCakewalk by Bandlab
Arshan
onSince we are on the task at creating and working on the best workflows, I have to admit that Logic has my heart set on it and that’s the software I will vote for
Scott
onAbleon Live
Miklós
onStainberg Cubase
Julen
onThe best DAW is FL Studio 20 forever
Marc
onAbleton Live
BeakyJay
onIt’s Logic Pro X for me :)
Awarego
onMy favorite DAW is Ableton, lets me to unleash my creativity.
JOSEPH ACAMPORA JR
onLOGIC X
Arnold
onAbleton Live
Nathan
onLogic Pro all the way.
Sheben
onCubase since 1997 !
Alex
onAbleton Live since 2008 !
Rick
onAbleton Live hands down!
stiffmink
onwhat is real?
Derrick
onMi DAW favorito es FL Studio !!!
Gage Howe
onMine is Reaper!
Vik
onTracktion Waveform!!!
Runa
onJust switched to ableton live , loving it so far
Tom
onFL Studio
Matthew
onREAPER for sure! The best I’ve used yet! The customizability is awesome!
Xaither
onFL studio has great capabilities but I do enjoy the UI of Logic a lot, if only it didn’t take so much CPU on average.
samuel
onS1 5. I’m on artist version now
Jim
onI use mixcraft, it is my favorite
Spirit
onAbleton live
Fabio
onAbleton Live!
triley37
onOnly ever tried FL, but the updates sure are nice!
C.att
onStudio One !
Corti.Son
onMy favorite is Live.
Gabby
onAbleton is my fav but I love Logic and unpopular opinion, all of the DAWs have their strong suits
HPN
onRRRRRRREEEEEEEAAAAPPPPPPPEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!!
Gabby
onAbleton is my favorite but Logic is great too and unpopular opinion but every DAW has their strong suit.
raf
ongive me :P
raf
onOuch – sorry, i didint see the question :D
Bitwig
Andy Skinner
onlogic is my preferred Daw of choice.
Haüyn
onStudio One
BoogieNaught
onCubase 12
mx
onactually it would be interesting to count the votes in the end.
maybe also a short comment about what people mostly do with their daw/-s would be nice to read here.
it looks like more people actually produce electronic music than doing just recording/mixing/postproduction and other things.
Przemysław
onCakewalk by Bandlab
Fabio
onLogic
grant
onReason
Irfad
onFL Studio
Jared
onAbleton Live ftw
odod
onMy favorite DAW is Reaper .. it is affordable and lightning fast workflow
Michael
onMy favorite DAW is Pro Tools for mixing and music production @soundbuddy
Esat
onCubase
giovanni
oncubase 12 pro
Jesse
onFL Studio!
Tristan G.
onMy favorite DAW is Cubase Pro :)
Thanks for this giveaway !
Ray
onCakewalk / Sonar, Ableton Live
Oddbrother
onMy favorite DAW is Reaper.
Jose
onAbleton
Will
onStudio One
Martijn
onA Hidden Gem! => MuLab !