This entry is not intended as advertising and i have nothing to do with Sononym, but it is a awesome sample manager which needs more support in my opinion. I had some conversation with the developer and it looks like that there are a lot of features on its way. He seems to be a very nice guy, is very helpful and i guess very open to meaningful feature requests. Worth to support. Just my two cents.
Are you still using it? I tried it ⌠like a month ago and then forgot about it / abandoned it (4 days evaluation left⌠damn) because I had the feeling it didnât work well for indexing my huge sample collection (I think my Macbook was close to exploding because of the workload / high CPU) and it wasnât doing it properly⌠But besides that it looks good.
Iâm bumping this thread because I bought Sononym over the weekend and think itâs fantastic.
If, like me, you have amassed a stupid amount of samples over the years, this is THE perfect tool for making them useful.
It also lets you delete samples from within it too, which is really handy, so it can become your master library for samples.
The search filters are brilliant⌠being able to zone in on sonic characteristics youâre looking for is great⌠saves you sitting listening to random kicks over and over.
Itâs currently on a BF sale⌠if you work with samples⌠if you have a sampler, an Octatrack, a Digitakt, an MPC, etc⌠get it, thank me later.
So far, so good. As theyâre both just looking at the same folders and not affecting the files, it should be fine.
They work together well⌠the distinction between them is that XO lets you play/use your sample library with some category filtering, and Sononym does no playing but is surgical for filtering and searching.
What I would LOVE from both of them, is if there was an âopen in sample editorâ option that let me get them into izotope RX10, the way Ableton does it.
So they work great together, and Iâm finding Sononym brings new inspiration to using my sample library now (and not just for drums too btw).
AS part of my resolution to be more intentional about sample picking and management Iâm using Sononym again, but itâs been awhile. How do you folks utilize âprojectsâ if at all?
Projects are how I generally organize samples before I start a new conceptual/genre project on DT and OT. There doesnât seem to be a way to drag or import folders from a sample search -> into a project. That feels silly. Have I overlooked something?
Figured I would reply to this here, rather than the sale thread.
Longer samples are no issue. I have a directory of field recordings that are 30-40 minutes long. Aside from taking a moment to draw the wave, it all works great.
Re: tagging, that is coming in Version 1.6. I donât know what it looks like, but Iâm looking forward to it. They have a roadmap here: Trello
In addition to managing regular sample libraries: If anyone finds themselves with folders upon folders of old projects that never went anywhere, just point Sononym at the highest directory level and youâve got instant access to all the source audio and snippets from previous projects. Super easy to listen to and find projects to come back to, or to use that audio elsewhere.
I came to Sonomym for the Linux support and thanks to a recommendation from a good friend 3-4 years ago, precisely in these dates, around Black Friday. I stayed for its focus on sample browsing and similarity search, with a straightforward, smooth, and beautiful UI.
I also like that they are a very small team (one developer with some help?), they have quickly responded the couple of times I had something to request / suggest, and they have a kind of open roadmap.
Before Sononym I had tried Atlas 2 and XO. Very nice pieces of software, but I donât need the extra features like drum machine, randomization, and so on. I have my DAW and more for that already. But I do miss some kind of DAW integration in Sononym. Maybe one day (in their âroadmapâ it is clear that many people are looking forward to it).
