About

ADSR, a company based in the United Kingdom, offers the ADSR Sample Manager, a smart, free, and proprietary sample management tool designed for digital audio workstations (DAWs). This VST plugin makes entire sample libraries searchable and audible directly within the DAW, leveraging smart and custom tags. It allows users to preview any sample in the context of their track using MIDI and features convenient drag-and-drop functionality. Available on Mac and Windows, it is categorized as a sample library manager, sample browser, audio search engine, and audio browser, with users able to suggest and vote on new features. While highly valued for its free availability, user feedback notes it may contain errors and is not perfectly written, though it offers advanced capabilities for those with SQL knowledge.