New App, Sample Scout, Streamlines Sample Curation
Sample Scout is a new sample curation app with lightning-fast keyboard workflow and hardware export presets.
It’s designed to make short work of managing and working with large sample libraries.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
“Large sample libraries are daunting and prep workflows are slow and inefficient. Sample Scout solves this with a novel keyboard-driven workflow focused on saving sets of sounds for projects.
A single keypress auditions a sound and another saves it for later, letting producers audition thousands of files in minutes. Cut out important sections of audio in the app and export with presets to a target device or format in a single click.
The result is a workflow that turns hours of sample prep into minutes, whether the destination is a hardware sampler, a DAW project, a game engine, or a film session.”
Sample Scout Overview:
Features:
- Keyboard-first workflow — Navigate folders, audition files, and build sets of sounds without touching the mouse. W, A, S, and D move through the library and in and out of folders. Autoplay auditions while browsing, and a single keypress E captures anything worth keeping.
- Set building at speed — A two-pane workspace keeps the library and current set in view simultaneously, with quick-add shortcuts for saving to multiple sets without losing place.
- In-app editing — Sections of audio can be clipped out, fades shaped, and results previewed immediately without leaving the app. Clips are stored as metadata and only rendered on export.
- Automate format conversion to any destination — Normalization, limiting, mono summing, high-pass filtering, sample rate, and bit depth can be saved in presets and applied on export in one click. Streamlines exporting to hardware samplers, DAWs, game engines, and any tool that expects audio files in a specific format.
- Handles any library size — Works with local drives, external storage, network shares, and libraries with millions of files without requiring any folder reorganization. A unique preload system keeps playback instant and memory use low.
- Automatic metadata detection — BPM, musical key, and pitch are detected automatically. Custom tags and notes can be added to any sample without moving or renaming files.
Sample Scout is available now for Linux, macOS + Windows for $29 USD.
