Can Sononym’s powerful tagging redefine sample browsing?
Browsing samples can be a bit tedious, especially if you don’t feel like putting in the time to organize your libraries. Developer Sononym wants to make sample pulling a bit more pleasurable with an intelligent piece of software of the same name.
Sononym is a browser that’s able to pick apart your samples, organize them according to certain criteria, and visualise the result. The software is able to analyze a folder of audio files and extract specific information from them — such as tempo, pitch, amount of noise, and harmonic content. The information is stored in a database and can be searched, filtered, and sorted.
The browser can also pick samples according to their similarity with others so you can find variations of the same sound. There’s control over this — for example, you can adjust how much pitch or timbre similarity you want while browsing. Furthermore, sounds are classified as looped, non-looped, or according to their type — like kick drums and synth stabs.
Sononym sounds like a godsend for all you sample hunters. The application will be available soon, presumably in plug-in and standalone formats. Its makers think it will cost less than EUR 100.
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