Many columns are available to flexibly choose from. And if you start to new samples, Loopcloud gives you a 1GB Starter Pack to get you going. Choose "Add Samples." in the menu bar, or simply drag and drop a folder containing samples from your drive into the Library.
And you can narrow your search results further with another menu, allowing you to choose Store/Liberary, Loops/Oneshots, Favourites only.Īdding your own samples could not be easier. And "loop" as a key search term lets you quickly choose only "Loops". For example, if you are looking for an acoustic guitar loop, entering "acoustic guitar" offers the predefined "Acoustic Guitar" instrument type in the auto-complete. The search bar operates like a search engine. Searching for individual samples across all sample packs is easy. The store is organised by sample packs, not individual sample categories. When you first open Loopcloud 6, the browser dominates it, showing the Loopcloud store.
Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Steinberg Cubase, Propellerheads Reason, FL Studio, Bitwig software are covered in the manual, but other DAWs that support AU/AAX and VST plugins should also work. The software works in standalone mode, and connects via a Loopcloud VST, AU or AAX plugin to your DAW.
To install the Loopcloud 6 sample manager, download the software of 109 MB, in either MacOS and Windows format.
Just using the website allows you to preview samples, and buy them. You don't have to use the software to buy Loopcloud samples.
Loopcloud is both the name of the sample retailer, and the name of the sample management software. How does this latest version stack up in the 2020s? Starting to Sampleįirst things first. 5 years later, and Loopcloud released version 6.0 in 2021. Loopmasters, a retailer specialising in samples from various sample creators and labels for nearly 20 years, created Loopcloud in 2017. One of the earliest contenders among sample managers was Loopcloud. At the last count, I have amassed over 100,000 samples on my hard drive. Sample management software promises to automatically tag and organise all samples strewn across your hard drives and folders. Step forward the saviours of sample stress. Of course, you can just organise your samples into a neatly divided folder architecture on your hard drive. COSMOS can open as a standalone app, or from within the Waves CR8 Sampler.Īs a bonus, COSMOS comes pre-packed with over 2500 one-shots and loops.Loopcloud 6 brings all your samples together Then just drag-and-drop the sample you want straight from COSMOS into your sampler or DAW. You can easily audition your samples from within COSMOS, with just one click. You can filter and search all your one-shots and loops by instrument, BPM, key, and even sonic characteristics such as brightness, saturation, and dynamics.įor example, the search function allows you to just type “distorted” and “kick” into COSMOS, and all your distorted kicks will show up, no matter what the samples are actually named. The sample library is presented in 3 different views: Waveform, List, and the Cosmos view.
The new free Waves plugin does not rely on the sample file names, but instead analyses the audio to categorise and tag them automatically. The Waves COSMOS Sample Finder interface focuses your attention on search and filtering.ĬOSMOS claims to be the first sample finder to use advanced neural network technologies to analyse, auto-tag, and sort sample libraries – one-shots and entire loops – into a unified easy-to-search database.