But with Spotlight, once you find your sample, that's your lot, whereas with AudioFinder, you could be just getting started. AudioFinder can build a catalog of every sound on your system, save it,and search it instantly to find the sounds you need when you need them.Use AudioFinder to create custom sets for sound categories and specificprojects, with fast file browsing to audition, analyze, process,convert, and move or copy the samples in your library.
AUDIOFINDER FOR MAC OS X
Built 100 for Mac OS X using CoreAudio, AudioFinder is PPC and Intel Native.
AUDIOFINDER FREE
With a long history of inovation, AudioFinder has consistently broke new ground and with free updates you can expect to always get more value added. AudioFinder can be controlled exclusively from the keyboard or by the mouse. The idea behind AudioFinder is elegantly simple - provide a user interface like the Mac OS X Finder that is optimized for browsing and auditioning audio sample files. It's true that similar metadata searching already exists within OS X's Spotlight search feature, and indeed, Spotlight metadata can also be searched within AudioFinder. AudioFinder invented the genre of sound browsers, by being the first dedicated sound browser on any platform. AudioFinder was designed for digital musicians to gain control over their sample library.
For example, for a kick drum, you could add "that weighty kick I sampled from the B-side of a Deadmau5 track". The Notes field is similarly freeform, but more suited to detailed, miscellaneous information. It would then appear in the results when searching for any of those terms in the Tags field. Tags is very useful as it can hold any words you like: for example, an electro synth stab could be tagged "electro synth bass stab noisy sharp attack". With AudioFinder's new metadata functionality, each audio file has fields for Creator, BPM, Beats, Time Sig, Key, Library, Genre, Category, Rating, Tags and Notes. The more you dig into it, the more you appreciate what it can do, and unless you don't actually use samples at all, we can't think of a single reason not to buy it.
AUDIOFINDER PROFESSIONAL
Features include find/replace of filenames (eg, find "bassdrum" and replace it with "Kick_Drum") and the addition of a prefix/postfix, and it can even automatically add the detected pitch and MIDI note number, which is highly useful for making multisampled patches.Īdd in neat touches like the BPM detector, micro-harmonic sound comparison (to compare frequency distribution of two files), visual waveform preview, drag-and-drop of selected audio sections into your DAW, batch processing and renaming, Mac Finder integration and free updates for life, and it seems crazy not to pick up AudioFinder.ĪudioFinder really is a boon for anyone who works with samples and a must-have for professional producers.
The Power Rename feature will be of prime interest to those who create their own samples from scratch, and indeed, professional sample library creators. We also had some success splitting up the hits in drum loops. It's especially useful for extracting samples from old-school sample libraries that came on audio CDs, or pulling out the useful parts of field recordings. There are also fade in and out options, and you can set a maximum on the number of samples to create, to give the extractor further guidance.
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