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Curate collections of samples at breakneck speed! A unique keyboard-driven workflow streamlines your organizing, editing, and exporting faster than you can click a mouse. Whether your next stop is into software or hardware, you stay focused on choosing the right sounds and we handle the rest.
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One-time purchase. Lifetime license.
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Sample Scout is the all-in-one sample curation and export tool for fueling your hardware rigs and DAW projects. Our keyboard-based set creation workflow lets you audition thousands of files in minutes. Build sets for projects, refresh sampler libraries, make sample packs. Use simple and precise editing tools to clip out the best sections of your material then quickly export to the required formats for every one of your devices in just a few clicks. Sample Scout will change your relationship with your sample collection and remove the headache from getting your sounds into your creative tools of choice.
I hated sample management. It would take me 2+ hours to find sounds, edit, process, and organize them just to make a handful of new presets for one of my samplers. I dreaded it. I made Sample Scout because I knew the sounds I wanted as soon as I heard them and didn't want to have to struggle to organize them. Using this, I can hear it once, save it, and then export it in exactly the form I need, instantly.
— thelastdoreo, Sample Scout creator
“As elegant a solution to 'finding good samples to sequence' as I think exists. I have literally 129 thousand samples (on a 5400RPM drive) yet I can scrub through them at speed and jam collections together in a few seconds. It feels like the problem of making big sample libraries accessible is solved, and without you needing to organise anything.”
“I truly truly appreciate how much you integrated keyboard navigation, big points there. This made finding and browsing through those nasty cluster trees an actual joy. What would normally take several minutes using the native file browser in my DAW, now takes no more than a couple. And the fact that I really only had to touch the mouse to drag-n-drop a sample directly into said DAW — chef's kiss.”
“Searching through a big sample library is always super tedious to me, but then there is also all the different formats and sample rates and bit depths you get with different foley sample packs. Sample Scout just streamlines and fastens this entire preparation process so much. Especially that you can make all samples mono and normalize them is a big help.”
“Sample Scout makes it incredibly simple and intuitive to build custom sample sets. I'm able to create new kits for my TR8s and custom sample packs for my Play in just a few moments, not to mention the ease of converting to "weird" formats for older and more finicky gear. What was once an hours-long trudge of browsing folders, clicking and converting is now a minutes-long keyboard-based task...it almost doesn't feel like using a computer at all!”
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