Unfortunately, manual searching is a boring and time expensive action in Cubase, on which music producers spend a lot of time. Sometimes it’s better to open some paid services because you can find what you want much faster. Some VSTs can create a database of your sounds by waveforms, frequency and file duration. Steinberg already has the technology of frequency analysis in Spectralayers. Why Cubase - the most innovative, flexible DAW does not have better filtering like in most well-known services like Splice and Loopcloud?! Does it mean that Steinberg artificially slows down the progress of innovation to give more paid updates? I hope not, so please do something with MediaBay. Be indisputably the best of the best DAWs!
Feature request:
Add to MediaBay filtering icons or tags which will help find you what you need with 1-2 clicks! Check the waveform, duration of the sound, name and frequencies when you create the database.
Kick - show all kick sounds
Snare - show all snare sounds
Hi-Hats - show all hi-hat sounds (open/closed)
Cymbals - show all cymbal sounds
Crashes - show all crash sounds
Toms - show all crash sounds
Voice - show all voice sounds
FX - show all fx sounds
Bass - show all bass sounds
Synth - show all synth sounds
Etc.
Need an example? Check these: Splice, Loopclooud, Algonaut Atlas 2, XLN XO etc.
Do you need this feature? Please, vote or write a message that you need it! Otherwise, developers will not see this request!
Agreed, this AI technology is Google’s as far as I know and others utilise it, it’s few years old, no reason why Steinberg can’t do the same, especially for single hits.
Just started a Loopcloud trial to see how it compares, and while it ain’t perfect it is certainly better than Media Bay. The MB Logical Filter Attributes list is WAY too long and contains attributes that most of us (musicians) will never need. ‘Actors Text’ anyone?? Episode ??
I’m with @arkdzo on this one … let’s see Media Bay become a better tool for those of us with extensive sample libraries.
Voted…but just faster searching would be a great start.
It feels like the mediabay algorithms are easy to forget what it was doing and/or not keeping an internal very fast database to what is on your system.
Yes, Atlas has very fast map building, profiling, and searching samples! Would that in a heartbeat.
It’s interesting other DAWs recently have done overhauls in their browsing, databasing, tagging: Bitwig, Ableton, Reason 13. For better or worse, mediabay needs some LOVE
Yeah, I’m a fairly long term Loopcloud user now. Mediabay sadly doesn’t allow me to properly dig into my extensive sample library in the way Loopcloud does. Would love for Steinberg to leverage some cool tagging tech and being Mediabay up to date with pitch matching etc.
that in a heartbeat.