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Memrie.

Find the sound by what it is.A drum and percussion library manager for producers. Memrie listens to every sample, describes it in plain categories, and lets you search, compare and build kits by those descriptions.

In shortA library you can move around in.Thousands of one-shots, each with a description you can read, search and build with.

01

Describe

Every sample is described in five areas: character, processing, envelope, body and tone.

02

Find

Ask in plain words, start from a sound you like, or move around the map of your library.

03

Build

See how the sounds in a kit fit together before you play a note.

Why

A big library is hard to use.

Hundreds of choices

A single track asks for hundreds of sound choices, and each one pulls you away from the idea.

Names describe the pack

File names say where a sound came from. Folders hold someone else's guess about it.

Kits compete

Two good sounds in the same band at the same moment make a worse kit, and it shows up in the mix.

Libraries decay

Duplicates, uneven loudness, silence before the hit and clipped files build up over the years.

01 — Describe

Every sample gets a description.

Memrie analyses each sample and records it in plain language, in five areas. Each area stands on its own, so you can change one and keep the rest.

01CharacterWhat the sound is and what it is made of.

02ProcessingWhat has been done to it: space, distortion, stereo width.

03EnvelopeHow it moves in time, from the transient to the end of the tail.

04BodyHow heavy, tight and dense it feels.

05ToneIts pitch and harmonic character.

02 — Map

Your whole library on one map.

Every sample is a circle: short sounds on the left, long tails on the right, low tones at the bottom, high at the top. A sound's place never changes, so you learn where things live. Try it.

Sample

Hover a circle to read its description. Click once to turn sound on, then hover to hear each one. Pinch or ⌘-scroll to zoom in, drag to move around.

Size is body. The ring runs as long as the sound. The dark notch is the transient, a halo is space, a ragged edge is distortion, the line beneath is stereo width, and a dot on the ring means it is pitched.

03 — Find

Ask for the sound you hear in your head.

Search in plain words

Type “tight dry rimshot, short tail” and Memrie turns it into filters you can see and edit. Words like boxy, snappy and crispy work too, and you can add your own.

Steer a sound

Keep what must stay and push what should change: the same hit with a longer tail, or in a drier room.

Shuffle with rules

Roll the dice inside your own filters, or bring up the sounds you have never auditioned.

Find a layer

Suggestions to stack with a sound: complementary range, a different envelope, a compatible pitch, with polarity checked.

Tune to the track

Tonal sounds show their note and cents. Audition them in your project's key before you drag them in.

Audition fairly

Loudness-matched playback, instant with the arrow keys, blind A/B, over a looping stem or from your MIDI pads.

04 — Kit

Read a kit before you hear it.

Every sound takes up a region of time and frequency. The kit builder draws the whole kit on one chart and outlines where sounds clash, so you can swap one and watch the clash clear. Fill the kit from tightly matched to deliberately contrasting, then play the groove.

Browse

Click a sound to put it on the kick pad.