Sononym is an excellent and practical audio analysis and sample browsing software from Germany. It offers a fresh perspective on how sounds can be explored and organized by providing several innovative features, such as similarity-based audio search and automatic sound categorization. It's cross-platform, available for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

Sononym's goal is to make sample search smart, powerful, and fun. Its main innovation is called "similarity search", which enables users to find samples of similar sounds in their sampling set based on any source sound. In essence, this is a bit like Google's reverse image search effort. Technically, it uses a combination of feature extraction, machine learning, and modern networking techniques.

Sononym can collect all available information (speed, beat, pitch, amount of noise, harmonic content, etc.) from your audio files and store it in a database. This ensures quick access as you search, filter, and sort large numbers of samples. It can analyze audio in detail, recognize audio, automatically classify audio and add bookmarks on it, which is convenient for users to sort out and find similar audio quickly and accurately. Therefore, Sononym is widely used in the process of making electronic music, and can also be used by ordinary users to find similar music on their computer.

Key Features

Feature Description
Audio Analysis Ask Sononym to analyze a folder, and all available information - tempo, pitch, amount of noise, harmonic content, etc. - is collected from your files and stored in a database. This ensures blazing fast access as you search, filter and sort your way through vast amounts of samples.
Similarity Search Similarity search enables you to find similar-sounding samples in your sample collection. Basically, pick any sound as input and "see where it takes you" - finding variations has never been this easy. For more control, you can determine how much individual aspects (e.g. similarity across pitch or timbre) should matter.
Smart Categorization While analyzing your samples, the software uses machine learning to categorize the content. The default set of 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.
Bookmarking & Exporting Sononym combines bookmarking and exporting into a single workflow. You can freely organize, tag and rename your bookmarked files in projects, which are automatically exported to a folder of your choice. We believe that picking out sounds of interest and making them available elsewhere should be an effortless thing to do.

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Edition Statement

AppNee provides the Sononym multilingual portable full registered versions for Windows 64-bit, as well as pre-activated versions for Mac.

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Version Download Size
for Windows
v1.5.6 121 MB
for Mac
v1.5.5 238 MB
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