Sample Scout

Stop clicking.
Start creating.

Curate collections of samples at breakneck speed! A unique keyboard-driven workflow streamlines organizing, editing, and exporting faster than you can click a mouse. Whether your next stop is software or hardware, you stay focused on choosing the right sounds and Sample Scout handles the rest.

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Sample Scout application

Sample Scout's keyboard-focused workflow lets you audition thousands of files in minutes. Build sets of sounds for projects, refresh sampler libraries, make sample packs. Use simple, precise editing tools to clip out the best sections of your material then quickly export to required formats for any of your devices in a few clicks. Sample Scout will change your relationship with your library and remove the struggle from getting your sounds into your creative tools of choice.

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.

This is the BEST sample management tool I've found. Amazing work — it feels like it was designed by someone who really understands a real workflow!

I love the concept of sets, that's a huge time saver and a great idea. AudioFinder has 'collections' and 'favorites' but it's not the same, your implementation is far more intuitive.

The organisational features are brilliant, that's what initially got me interested. But what really sold it to me is the workflow when chopping up new samples from a larger wav file. That's quicker than anything else I've used. Amaze amaze amaze!

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. … 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.

…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.

I'm able to create new kits...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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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

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Sample Scout application

One app. One workflow.
From your library to your project.

Unlock speed — $29

macOS · Windows · Linux