Say for example you want to find all the kicks in a Splice folder, there could be thousands. Its touts itself as a Sample management program. The problem I found with Sononym is simply this. I found a really nice example video for this: I think you can't completly compare Audiofinder/Samplism with Sononym!īoth manage samples and tag them, but Sononyms strength is finding similar samples
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Wish them all the best and if not on a Mac its worth a look IMHO Having said that none of the three are perfect and its worth checking them all out. It also uses a lot of CPU in comparison to others.Īlso not being able to recategorise a mislabeled sample is a big flaw. Of course they can't do the spectral matching. Also most sample libraries do tag their samples by name so in the long run using a name based tagging was actually more accurate than Sononym.
I chose Samplism because its very fast but Mac only.
I think Sononym shows promise and the idea is good but it's not quite right, right now.Yes I agree with all your points, I tested out the 3 leading contenders Sononym,Audiofinder and Samplism. The ability to add user tags might help with overall management IMO as, right now, I'd probably have to use it alongside Samplism or Audiofinder. It's in the ballpark - give it a hi-hat and it will find high-pitched noisy things with a short decay but the sounds with high overall similarity are quite different sonically and tend to lose out to a search on a decently tagged library in something more conventional. However, I'm finding the app's view of "similarity" to not be that great. But moving it to a local SSD using a symbolic link is much, much faster - but that's not very manageable for multiple libraries. Similarity searches on the NAS-based database take forever and were practically unusable. One thing the developers should add is the ability to move or shadow the database to local storage such as an SSD. The synonyms specimen and sample are sometimes interchangeable, but specimen applies to any example or sample whether representative or merely existent and available.I've tried this on a library of around 100k percussion samples on a NAS. However, instance applies to any individual person, act, or thing that may be offered to illustrate or explain.Īn instance of history repeating itself In what contexts can specimen take the place of sample? In some situations, the words instance and sample are roughly equivalent. The meanings of example and sample largely overlap however, example applies to a typical, representative, or illustrative instance or case.Ī typical example of bureaucratic waste When could illustration be used to replace sample?Īlthough the words illustration and sample have much in common, illustration applies to an instance offered as a means of clarifying or illuminating a general statement.Ī telling illustration of Murphy's Law When might instance be a better fit than sample? While in some cases nearly identical to sample, case is used to direct attention to a real or assumed occurrence or situation that is to be considered, studied, or dealt with.Ī case of mistaken identity When can example be used instead of sample? Show us a sample of your work When is case a more appropriate choice than sample? While all these words mean "something that exhibits distinguishing characteristics in its category," sample implies a part or unit taken at random from a larger whole and so presumed to be typical of its qualities. Some common synonyms of sample are case, example, illustration, instance, and specimen. Frequently Asked Questions About sample How is the word sample distinct from other similar nouns?