Index in place
Names, paths, tags and technical metadata.
Ready
SONICINDEX / PRIVATE ALPHA
Your next sound
is already
in there.
Tame the sample hoard. Turn years of kicks, breaks, basses, voices and beautiful weirdness into a collection you can actually see, hear and play.
Windows desktop · In development · Public availability to come
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A thousand ways in.One sound worth keeping.
300
ways to describe a soundNumeric criteria + additional structured evidence
07
views of the same collectionFrom color mosaics to harmonic wheels
05
workspaces, one creative flowExplore · Build · Perform · Organize · DJ Crate
93,010samples in the Sound map
90,634completed Deep results
57,293songs cataloged in DJ Crate
October 6 snapshots from the owner’s sample and music profiles. These are separate collections, not a capacity limit or speed benchmark.
LESS FILE MANAGEMENT. MORE “THAT’S THE ONE.”
Stop digging through folders.
Start digging the sounds.
That perfect low-end thump. A break with the right kind of chaos. A pad that blooms after the click. SonicIndex looks beyond filenames to the shape, texture, motion and musical clues inside your collection. Your originals stay where they are during analysis.
“Where did I put that?”→“What else sounds like this?”→“Put it in the queue.”
A SMALL TASTE OF A BIG LIBRARY
From sample chaos
to a late-night groove.
Follow a short scan example, change the view, zoom into a neighborhood and keep a few discoveries. The featured sounds were handpicked from the developer’s real collection to work together.
ORGANIZE & ANALYZE
Meet the mountain.
Years of collected audio. Nested packs. More sounds than you can remember. Start with the index, then choose how deeply to listen.
The studio sample collection93,010 indexed sounds · October 6 catalog snapshot
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Measure the sound
157 Standard criteria. No AI pack required.
Waiting
Go deeper, when you want
143 optional Deep criteria + supported local models.
Optional
A compressed illustration of the stages, not a live scan or speed benchmark.
THE BRIEF / 128 BPMMake a dark, spacious groove.
Start with a rhythmic layer. Find a solid kick, a low-end anchor and an atmospheric counterweight. Musical labels are clues; your ears make the decision.
Each tile is a sound. Color reveals its neighborhood.1.0×
ILLUSTRATIVE POSITIONS · REAL FEATURED SOUNDS
DrumsLoops / layersBass / toneAtmosphereDrag to pan · Scroll to zoom
CURATED FINDS
A coherent starting palette, not a random shuffle.
YOUR AUDITION QUEUE
Keep what earns another listen.
In SonicIndex, a queue carries discoveries into comparison, a kit, slices or an audio-pack handoff.
Ready for discoveryBrowser simulation · No files scanned or uploaded
Map positions, background tiles and scan timing are illustrative. Featured filenames and saved measurements come from the development library; missing evidence stays unknown. This is a guided web preview, not the SonicIndex application.
A COMPLETELY REWORKED INTERFACE
Pick the task.
Get into the flow.
Five focused workspaces put the tools for the moment up front. Explore samples, build a kit, perform slices, maintain your library or catalog your song collection in DJ Crate.
EXPLORE SAMPLES
Follow the sound.
Keep the spark.
Search the Library, explore the Sound map and audition a promising neighborhood. Compare measured qualities or references, then keep the discoveries in your Audition Queue.
- Seven full-library map views
- Wanted and avoided reference sounds
- Saved searches, tags and taste preferences
New October 6 screenshots are actual Windows captures of the owner’s scanned collection, taken after the views finished loading. All seven map views contain 93,010 records; gray shelves retain unknown evidence. The fresh drum-kit layout is an actual empty kit; the earlier assigned-kit example uses illustrative assignments. The earlier Slice Lab image shows a real single-file import. Click any capture to enlarge it.
BUILD A DRUM KIT / YOUR PLAYABLE LAYOUT
Build the kit.
Make it yours.
Give your sounds a place to play. Arrange physical drums, cymbals and pads, assign samples to head and rim zones, then shape how the kit responds to your playing.
A kit with room to move.
Add and name pieces, choose single or dual zones, and drag or resize individual pieces or groups. Head and rim zones stay together. The ControlPad adds eight pads and four external inputs.
More than one hit.
Assign MIDI notes and learn supported input. Build up to eight layers per zone, refine velocity response and alternates, and set choke behavior for cymbals and hats.
From search to a session.
Fill open slots from saved analysis or choose sounds yourself. Save named kits and export copied audio with an MPC map and import plan. Configure and check playback on your hardware.
Start with the layout, then assign and layer your sounds.
DJ CRATE / YOUR SONG COLLECTION
Know what you have.
Find what you remember.
Sample discovery now has a music companion. DJ Crate reads the tags already in your songs and builds a searchable catalog before you run acoustic analysis. Browse an album, find an artist or search a lyric phrase, then compare songs and passages.
More than a filename.
Read artist, album artist, title, album, track and disc numbers, date and genre, alongside artwork and audio encoding details. Inspect the original embedded fields, including custom tags, instead of losing them behind a simplified label.
Start with a clue.
Search artist, album, title or stored lyrics. Switch between artists, albums, folders, local playlists and saved crates. Lyric matches can be searchable before they are timed; aligned occurrences support bounded passage previews.
You approve the changes.
Optional MusicBrainz and LRCLIB lookups offer metadata and lyric candidates for review. Choose fields and accept them into the catalog. Writing reviewed artist, album artist, title, album or plain lyrics back to a file is a separate action.
FROM THE CATALOG TO THE SESSION
Audition a song, add it to passage comparison, save a crate or open an indexed source in Slice Lab. Queue only the enrichment or audio work you need.
Embedded tags and local companion files supply the catalog. MediaMonkey database-only values are not imported. Online proposals require a lookup; ordinary catalog browsing and audio analysis stay local. Synced lyrics and recording IDs can be accepted into the catalog; file write-back currently covers the reviewed text fields listed above.
300 MEASUREMENTS. A FEW SUPERPOWERS.
Get to know your
sound’s DNA.
You don’t need to think in 300 parameters. Start with a creative question. A handful of useful measurements opens the door; the full catalog is there when curiosity takes over.
WHAT ARE YOU AFTER?
THE RECIPEFind the snap.
Find the snap.
Feel the weight.
Fast attack gives a hit its immediate edge. Low-frequency energy gives it a foundation. Tail length helps you choose how much space it leaves for the next sound.
Illustrative fingerprint · Not a measurement of a specific sample
THE WHOLE TOOLBOX
Curious about the other 288?
Peek inside every numeric criterion, from envelope and spectrum to vibrato and stereo motion.
157 Standard + 143 optional Deep = 300 numeric criteria. These are filterable, sortable, plottable measurements, alongside vectors, events and trajectories. They are not 300 independent AI detectors, and not every sound supports every measurement.
Beyond numbers: 36 overlapping labels +
One sound can be strings + plucked + ringing. Catalog labels span source/content, audible action, form over time and possible use, with filename or supported model/interval provenance. Possible-use suggestions currently rely on names.
THE SEARCH IS ONLY THE BEGINNING
A collection becomes
a creative instrument.
Find the useful relationships. Keep the ones you hear. Then do something with them.
“This shape.
A different texture.”
Use several wanted and avoided sounds. Weight the aspects that matter: the envelope of one, the tone of another. Save your explicit taste preferences for later searches.
A better starting point than a filenameFind the moment
inside the recording.
A separate optional recording scan saves windowed evidence and timestamps. Search a description or reference passage, then audition the interval instead of scrubbing the entire file.
Whole recordings, bounded passage previewsMake a set
worth playing.
Build physical kit pieces and zones, layer samples, review velocity-family candidates and calibrate MIDI velocity. Keep manual choices in charge of the instrument.
Editable layers, zones and choke groupsOne file.
A new performance.
Drop one audio file into a permanent library copy, detect slices and play the pads. Shape partitions, patterns, scenes and arrangements; render audio or prepare a project handoff.
Up to 128 slices in a performanceFROM THE QUEUE TO THE STUDIO
Audition → Compare → Curate → Build or slice → Export copied audio with maps, manifests and import plans.
Native MPC projects/programs and Ableton sets/racks are not generated.BUILT FOR THE COLLECTION YOU ALREADY OWN
Big library.
Local intelligence.
Your audio stays local during analysis. Indexed search and paged browsing keep the normal Library bounded; the Sound map progressively reads compact metadata for all matching samples. Optional models add evidence when you need it.
Index it where it lives.
Search names, paths, tags and musical hints. Then measure the sound. Indexing and acoustic analysis are separate steps, so useful browsing can start before every optional scan finishes.
Pause. Resume. Recover.
Independent scan cards, durable Deep and recording queues, status, estimates and live resource graphs make long jobs visible. Review actual failures and keep compatible completed evidence.
Take the catalog to the studio.
Portable libraries carry verified completed analysis on the sample drive. Reconnect at the new sample root after a drive-letter change rather than starting every compatible scan again.
Review the archive backlog.
Approve packs for collision-safe extraction and targeted analysis. Archive holding records support restore, while musical material and support assets are protected during optional housekeeping.
What the optional local models bringCLAP / BASIC PITCH / PANNS / MERT / AUDIOSEP +
CLAP
Audio/text and audio/audio resemblance. Describe a texture or start with a reference; scores are not calibrated probabilities.
Basic Pitch
Note-event and conservative chord evidence in a bounded transcription. Ambiguous and heavily processed audio still needs your ear.
PANNs
Broad event classes and approximate intervals through the recording scan. Supported events can feed catalog labels.
MERT
A separate music-trained representation for loops and pitched material. Compatible model identity matters; pinned weights have noncommercial terms.
AudioSep
Experimental source estimates from a short mixture excerpt. Derived audio can have artifacts and never replaces the original.
Compatible packs are optional and set up separately. Downloads are needed for initial model setup; analysis runs locally afterward. Scanning stores evidence, while model weights stay static. Explicit taste memory is separate from model training.
ON THE BENCH / OCTOBER 2026
Built. Evolving.
Still behind the curtain.
This showcase reflects the October 6 development interface, native collection captures and current source. SonicIndex remains a private Windows alpha; this is newer than the previously packaged v0.2.2 build.
Talk SonicIndexCURRENT DEVELOPMENT
The tools in this tour
Five workspaces, seven maps, searchable measurements, reference discovery, kits, slices, portable catalogs, reviewed archive intake and DJ Crate’s searchable music metadata.
EXPERIMENTAL / REVIEW BY EAR
Suggestions with reasons, not promises
Musical-context matches, whole-kit proposals, detailed articulation suggestions and specialist comparisons still need independent listening and hardware acceptance.
PRIVATE PROJECT
The story is public. The project stays private.
No public installer or source repository is offered here. A release date has not been announced.