Our second sample librarian might not boast the smart analysis chops of Sononym, but it’s far more ambitious in what it lets you do with your audio files. Mixed In Key Studio Edition is decidedly basic in comparison to the full enchilada, but its ease of use and focused remit prove beneficial for studio workflows, making this a solid tool for ensuring harmonic integrity throughout the production process. Analysing the input in real time, it serves up the results as a series of vertical bars representing the ’strength’ of every chromatic note (or minor/major key) in the signal, and a percentage likelihood of the signal being in one or two detected keys. Mixed In Key Studio Edition brings the same concept to the DAW, giving producers access to the same acclaimed technology in the form of a straightforward plugin, for the spectral scrutiny of individual track elements. 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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