Match by tonal key and harmony: a smart filter surfaces the right sample from thousands in your library — in seconds, not after 15 minutes of digging.
Windows 10/11 · local-first · no cloud · files untouched
Free and complete. Leave your email on the download page and the file starts straight away.
Pain → solution
It’s not about how folders are arranged. Most sessions run on a tiny basket of “trusted” one-shots and loops — the rest of the library sits unused.
Folders everywhere — but only a narrow basket of “go-to” one-shots and loops makes it into the session.
A local catalog of your entire library.
Finder hunts, DAW folder browsers, and ear-testing eat your session time.
File names cannot replace matching to the track you are building.
Match by sound and tags — not by filename.
DAW sync breaks: BPM and tonal key live in your head; the library lives somewhere else.
Product
Orbit is a local analyzer for your sample folder: it reads audio and writes tonal key, BPM, role, character, and brightness into a database on your disk. Then matching surfaces the right samples for your current session — by harmony and tags, with no cloud and no file rewrites.
Harmony
Set the session tonal key on the wheel — Orbit surfaces samples by harmonic key neighborhood: home tonality, relatives, and compatible degrees.
In short: the circle of fifths / harmonic key is a map of “what sits next to what.” Orbit matches in key first; BPM is a secondary score factor.
Match
Type, character, layers, brightness, roles, and elements — then a ranked list with match score.
Strict key and BPM matching can be turned off — browse by tags, role, and character only.
Why
Hit “?” on a Match row — Orbit shows why the sample sits on top: score formula, key, BPM, role, character, brightness, and dynamics.
Example: session F#m / 174 BPM. A neuro bass tagged F#m gets Key fit 100% and rises — not because the filename looks right, but because the harmonic key matched. BPM 172 scores high but not absolute; role bass and character smooth refine the rank.
SPIKE
Set a reference (“Set” on a row) — SPIKE re-ranks Match by texture: Similar or Complement. Session harmony stays; the comparison axis becomes timbre.
Into the project
Grab the handle on the left — the file goes to a DAW, a file browser, or any folder. Sources stay put: Orbit hands over a path, it doesn’t carve up your library.
FL Studio
A thin plugin on an FL channel — not a second sample browser. Orbit Desktop owns the library, Match, and drag; from FL you drive session context.
Sample Orbit for Windows 10/11 is given away free. The email is for your account and build notices; the key is issued automatically.
Anyone building tracks from their own sample library who wants the right layer for the session faster.