SonikSearch

SonikSearch — Find Your Sound. Professional Sample Library Manager | $89.

SonikSearch is the sample library manager built for producers and sound designers who are serious about their workflow. Whether you're sitting on 10,000 samples or millions, SonikSearch brings order to the chaos, letting you browse, analyze, search, and audition your entire collection without ever leaving your creative zone.

AI Semantic Search
Search your library by describing sounds in natural language. Type "warm pad," "punchy kick," or "dark atmosphere" and find matching sounds regardless of filename. All AI processing runs locally on your machine, no internet required. Combine with boolean keyword search to narrow results even further.

Intelligent Analysis, Automatically
Every sample you import gets analyzed in the background. SonikSearch extracts BPM, musical key, loop type, and category (across 31 subcategories spanning Percussion, Bass, Melodic, Vocal, FX, Ambient, and Loops), plus detailed audio characteristics like brightness, warmth, harmonicity, attack, and RMS energy. You get rich metadata without lifting a finger.

Find Similar Sounds
Select any sample and SonikSearch finds its closest relatives in your library, or drag and drop any audio file into SonikSearch to find sounds like it. Dial in what "similar" means by adjusting the weight of up to nine acoustic qualities, pitch, timbre, brightness, warmth, and more. The pitch-matching engine even understands musical key relationships, so it knows C major and G major are closely related.

Background Task Queue
Imports and analysis run in the background while you browse, search, and audition. Pause, cancel, or reorder tasks to prioritize what matters. Close the app mid-task and it picks up right where it left off.

Audition with Confidence
A built-in audio player with waveform display, real-time timestretching, and key transposition lets you hear samples in context before committing. Match any loop to your project tempo on the fly.

Works Where You Work
Load SonikSearch as a VST3, Audio Unit, or AAX (macOS) plugin directly in your DAW, Logic, Ableton, Pro Tools, and more, with full transport and tempo sync. Or run it as a standalone app with Ableton Link support. Your library, your workflow.

Clean Up the Clutter
A built-in duplicate detector scans for exact and near-duplicate samples with an adjustable similarity threshold. Cluster results make it easy to keep what you need and purge the rest.

Built for Speed
Fast startup, responsive browsing, and background processing that never freezes the UI, even with libraries in the millions. Only new or changed samples are processed on import, so refreshing your collection stays snappy.

Available for macOS Catalina and later (Intel & Apple Silicon) and Windows 10 and 11 64-bit (Intel and ARM). 14-day fully functional free trial available. No purchase or credit card required.