Use the Store for licensed catalog, then jump into AI Studio when the brief needs a custom melody, voice, or alternate take.
Sample Browser is a thin Rust shell over our catalog API. We push a search query (text or audio similarity) to the store-api gateway, stream WAVs over a signed S3 URL, and let the host DAW decide where the file lands.
· Free with a SONICHAOS account
No marketing roll-up. The cells below are the contract; if a release changes one of them, the changelog says so by name.
1.4.2 · 2026-05-02
CLAP · VST3 · AU
macOS 12+ · Windows 10/11 · Linux (Ubuntu 22.04, Pop!_OS 22.04)
44.1 kHz / 48 kHz / 88.2 kHz / 96 kHz
0 ms (zero-latency)
Apple Notarytool · Windows EV (DigiCert)
Free with a SONICHAOS account
Cubase, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Studio One, Bitwig, FL Studio, Pro Tools, REAPER
Each block names the technique, the number, and the output. If a feature can't carry a number, it doesn't ship.
matches in 85 ms over a warm cache
the file lands on the playhead, snapped to grid
drag any clip into the search well, get neighbours
Shots at the actual UI density. No mocked-up marketing renders.
A 200-word account of the model, the runtime, the data path, and the honest scope. Read this before you buy.
Sample Browser is a thin Rust shell over our catalog API. We push a search query (text or audio similarity) to the store-api gateway, stream WAVs over a signed S3 URL, and let the host DAW decide where the file lands. There is no audio processing on the plugin side — no ONNX runtime, no model. The only state we store locally is your search history (encrypted, opt-out in Preferences). When you drag a sample onto your timeline, the file is fetched at the original 24-bit depth, written to your project's Audio Pool, and the license stamp is recorded in a sidecar JSON. The model is good at text-to-audio search and rhythmic similarity; for melodic similarity the larger CLaMP3 server-side search still wins, and you can flip the toggle marked 'use CLaMP3' in Preferences.
Dated, terse, one fact per line. No 'general improvements'.
Apple Silicon M1 or x86_64 with AVX2
4 GB minimum
0.4 GB free
both (universal binary on macOS)
Not required
required for search; cached results playable offline
Sample Browser is tested in Cubase, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Studio One, Bitwig, FL Studio, Pro Tools, REAPER as CLAP, VST3, and AU. The build is code-signed with Apple Notarytool on macOS and EV-signed on Windows (DigiCert).
No. Activation runs once over the internet, then the plugin runs offline. Two activations per license.
The model file is fetched from the SONICHAOS lab CDN and hot-swapped without a plugin reinstall. You can pin a version in Preferences if a session needs to stay bit-stable.
Yes. Free with a SONICHAOS account. The plugin only streams catalog samples — you pay per-sample, per-kit, or under a Studio subscription, the same as on the web.
Yes — every WAV ships with a perpetual royalty-free license stamp in a sidecar JSON. Resale of the raw files is the only thing reserved.
Search needs the network. Samples you have already dragged into a project play back offline; the cache also covers the last 200 previews.
Free · CLAP, VST3, AU · macOS and Windows · code-signed.
