Mixed In Key (Mac/PC)Ī perennial favourite of digital DJs the world over, Mixed In Key deploys a proprietary key detection algorithm to categorise full songs by key, assisting in the execution of harmonic mixing when used in conjunction with software DJ systems such as Serato and Traktor. The generated database files can get pretty big, but Sononym’s power, approachability and speed – even with the most out-of-control libraries – make that a small price to pay. Most impressively, Sononym can also search for sounds by similarity to the current selection or any dragged-in or directly recorded sample, ranking their ‘closeness’ in terms of amplitude, pitch, timbre and frequency spectrum, as well as general similarity.
Once that’s done, you’re good to go, browsing, auditioning and searching by all the above parameters and more. The first time you point Sononym at your library, it gets to work analysing every sample therein, automagically dividing them into loops and one-shots, tagging them by instrument type, and listing all manner of helpful info in its browser columns, from length and sample rate to peak and RMS volume, pitch and tempo. The first of two sample librarians in our list is a functional and aesthetic thing of beauty for Mac, PC and Linux that uses machine learning in its organisation of all your audio clips, no matter how numerous or disparate they may be.
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