KVR Audio

jonleebrown · Post by **jonleebrown** » Mon May 18, 2015 2:28 am

Hi all,

(I posted this in the Soundware forum, but in retrospect, I'm not sure if that is the most appropriate palce for it.)

I am trying to share a free, eventually open source, sample library manager.

https://app.box.com/s/jkb94388aawspxojbcn4q11sehpa8blm

It's a simple tag-based system.

It allows tagging files, creating new tags on the fly, searching for files based on complex tag combinations.

You can drag a specific file into your DAW--which is nice. I use it more than Live's built in browser.

My current library is around 26,000 files and performance seems pretty good.

Setup is manual, but not too difficult. Start with the Read Me file in the unzipped folder.

It runs on C#, I suspect it is Windows only at the moment.

If you try it, let me know if it works out for you.

Thanks.

jonleebrown · Post by **jonleebrown** » Wed May 20, 2015 3:05 am

Just out of curiosity, is this not useful to anyone?

Are there better free options out there?

I couldn't find anything that allowed arbitrary tagging--which is why I made this.

Thanks.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Wed May 20, 2015 4:02 am

Lots of people were begging for this a year ago.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Wed May 20, 2015 4:03 am

Nice work. I'll have to check it out. Truth be told, I don't have many unorganized samples though.

t3toooo · Post by **t3toooo** » Wed May 20, 2015 4:49 am

This one is very good and still free atm.

https://resonic.at/home

What do you mean by arbitrary tagging?

jonleebrown · Post by **jonleebrown** » Wed May 20, 2015 1:51 pm

So, for me, tag based management is a must--rather than by file system.

I want to be able to find all of my distorted kick samples--regardless of the folder they are in--for instance.

By "arbitrary" I mean that I can instantly create any tag I want, just by adding it to the list of tags to one or more files. If a tag is deleted from all files, it will be removed from the list of tags. There is no limit on the number of tags you can have. I should be able to find a better better word for this.

So it has been really nice to get a new sample library, do some initial tagging (or maybe just clean up the auto tagging), then tag the whole set as "listen again later". If the tag "listen again later" did not already exist in my list of tags it will immediately be added to the list. In the future using "listen again later" as the search term will bring up all of those files in the browser.

lqb · Post by **lqb** » Wed May 20, 2015 9:16 pm

t3toooo wrote:This one is very good and still free atm.
https://resonic.at/home
What do you mean by arbitrary tagging?

Just a quick heads-up: Resonic Pro will be introducing an advanced auto tag system that has been in development for the last year.

www.resonic.at/pro

jonleebrown · Post by **jonleebrown** » Thu May 21, 2015 2:09 am

lqb wrote:
t3toooo wrote:This one is very good and still free atm.
https://resonic.at/home
What do you mean by arbitrary tagging?
Just a quick heads-up: Resonic Pro will be introducing an advanced auto tag system that has been in development for the last year.

http://www.resonic.at/pro

That's cool. Any idea what makes it advanced?

lqb · Post by **lqb** » Thu May 21, 2015 2:12 pm

jonleebrown wrote:That's cool. Any idea what makes it advanced?

For short: It's based on (fast) complex algorithms that test a few hundred thousand combinations of typo-corrected words (and patterns). We researched about 10 million path names by select users (sound designers, music producers, etc.) as a base for this system.

jonleebrown · Post by **jonleebrown** » Sat May 23, 2015 6:30 am

lqb wrote:
jonleebrown wrote:That's cool. Any idea what makes it advanced?
For short: It's based on (fast) complex algorithms that test a few hundred thousand combinations of typo-corrected words (and patterns). We researched about 10 million path names by select users (sound designers, music producers, etc.) as a base for this system.

Ah cool. That is more clever than what I did--the auto-tagging is just simple rules that you can specify. No auto-correcting.

One thing that I've enjoyed about the manager that I cobbled together is that I can use it to tag and manage non-audio files too--like Reaktor patches. The fun thing there is you can drag from the manager into Reaktor. So instead of all of the directory hopping looking for ensembles and snapshots inside of Reaktor, I can look for a sound and load whatever synth created it.

It won't play samples of the patches, but it's not a far leap to have it look for an audio file of the same name in the same directory and play that--which might end up being practical and useful--still pondering that one.

bronxsound · Post by **bronxsound** » Sat May 23, 2015 7:27 am

interesting subject. will give a try to both. thanks for your work and making it available for free.

trusampler · Post by **trusampler** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:20 am

Vst support needed, these type of apps need to be inside the daw, just saying

lqb · Post by **lqb** » Thu Jan 18, 2018 2:57 am

trusampler wrote:Vst support needed, these type of apps need to be inside the daw, just saying

We don't plan on wrapping the whole app into VST form, but there are some other ideas floating around when it comes to audio exchange.

New Free Sample File Manager