Sononym is a sample browser that offers a fresh perspective on how sounds can be explored and organized. The software is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Powerful Sample Discovery

Sononym extracts a great deal of information from your samples and puts this information at your fingertips, including ‘exotic’ properties that you might not find elsewhere: perceived brightness, crest factor and timbre, to name a few. Combine this with powerful tools for searching, filtering and sorting samples, and you might just fall in love with your sample collection all over again.

Powerful Sample Discovery

Sononym extracts a great deal of information from your samples and puts this information at your fingertips, including ‘exotic’ properties that you might not find elsewhere: perceived brightness, crest factor and timbre, to name a few. Combine this with powerful tools for searching, filtering and sorting samples, and you might just fall in love with your sample collection all over again.

Duplicate Detection

identifies duplicate samples across your libraries. But it doesn’t just detect identical sounds: by leveraging our Similarity Search technology it also looks for sounds that are nearly identical. So if you happen to own a sample pack with .wav and .aiff versions of every sample, you can use Duplicate Detection to streamline things, and potentially free up some disk space in the process..

AI-Based Categorization

While analyzing your samples, the software uses machine learning to categorize the content. The default set categories in Sononym are broadly based around electronic music production and describe distinctive groups of sounds such as ‘snare drums’ or ‘synth pads’. In addition, all sounds are classified as either looped or non-looped (one-shot) sounds.

Organizing & Exporting

Picking out sounds of interest and making them available elsewhere should be an effortless thing to do. But wait, isn’t that what we have copy-paste for? True, but sometimes your project demands that you keep track of the file origin, that certain naming conventions are enforced, etc. In Sononym, this is the purpose of  project: to bookmark, organize and export in a single workflow.

Cloudless, Not Clueless

Sononym is fully functional without an internet connection – no clunky ‘online activation’ to deal with, no risk of forgetting to ‘deauthorize’ the software – and we won’t offer to upload your samples somewhere either. Sononym aims to be your deserted-island sample browser. That said, you are of course free to point your cloud-synchronized folders at Sononym: this is the 21st century, after all.