/ 01 — Four ways to find a sound
Describe it,
or point at it.
Every one of these searches runs against your own files, by how they actually sound.
/ 01 — Describe it
Type what you're after in plain words — "warm dusty vinyl kick," "airy pad with a long tail." It matches the audio, not the filename, so the right sound turns up even when the file is named nothing useful.
/ 02 — By key, tempo & character
Every file is analysed locally for key, tempo, brightness, stereo width, and about forty other characteristics. Filter and sort by any of them — every 138 BPM loop in F minor, in a click.
/ 03 — Find similar
Found one that's almost right? Pull up the closest relatives from your library, then refine by approving and rejecting matches until it's the sound in your head.
/ 04 — Point at a reference
Drop in a reference track and X-Ray finds the sounds in your own library that match any part of it — a kick, a phrase, a whole loop. Search by pointing, not typing.
/ 02 — Your files, not a store
It finds what you own.
Sample Vault isn't a marketplace and doesn't sell samples. It points at the folders already on your drives — Splice downloads, Loopmasters, free packs, your own recordings — and makes every one of them findable by sound.
Nothing is uploaded, moved, or renamed. The analysis runs on your machine, and the files stay exactly where you left them. It's the difference between buying another sample and finally finding the one you already have. See how it indexes a library without moving it.