SampleLink is a program I wrote in the mid-90's and that was distributed by Synoptic. Here is some advertising text, as it appeared on Synoptic's web site.

SampleLink is the perfect complement to today's digital audio software. It is the ideal tool to search, process, and convert all of your samples automatically. Whether you are musician, sound designer, multimedia artist, web or game developer, or sound enthusiast, you can now work on all the sound files of your project simultaneously, and exchange data with any kind of machine (computer, sampler...), or software (audio processing, video editing, music composing etc...).
Do not waste your time any more! You surely have something better to do than searching for that bass sound among several gigas of data, or trying to convert this drum pattern from an exotic file format... This amazing sound machine is the Swiss Army knife of sound: a very productive and invaluable tool.


SampleLink includes 3 main modules:

Audio Search Engine

Batch Processor

File Converter



Audio Search Egine

Find all of your sounds with a simple mouse click! The powerful Audio Search Engine of SampleLink lets you configure your own search parameters, such as audio file format, resolution, sample rate, number of channels, size, directory and file names, creation date, etc... Do you want to find all your .AIFF mono files, sampled at 22 kHz, created during the past 6 months, whose names begin with "bass"? Just click!



Batch Processor

With the Batch processor, you simply need to select the files you want to process and the effects you want to apply to them, and let SampleLink work automatically. The program includes some of the best digital audio sound processing available today. It will allow you to perform normalization, reverberation, compression, delays, filtering as well as many other effects. SampleLink can process files, even if they are compressed with mu-law , A-law, Fibonacci deltas etc...



File Converter

SampleLink reads and writes a large number of file formats. With the File Converter, you will be able to easily convert all your AIFF files into WAVE files, transform all your mono files into stereo, resample them to 44,1 kHz and much more... You will be able to play files from different machines (computers, samplers etc...), create banks of samples (SoundFonts, .DLS...) for your sound card, grab instruments from trackers songs, and even extract audio tracks from movie files.



Supported File Formats

SampleLink is powered by the WaveIO technology from Synoptic, which allows you to regularly update the list of supported formats, simply by downloading a free DLL file on our Web site. Please consult the site to see the most recent list.

Here are some file formats which are imported and exported by SampleLink. The list is continually growing...


Samples
  • Ad Lib Sample (*.smp)
  • AIFF (*.aif)
  • Akai S1000/S1100/S01 sample (*s1)
  • Akai S3000 sample (*.s3)
  • Akai S900/S950 sample (*.s9)
  • ASCII Text Data (*.txt)
  • AU NeXT/Sun (*.au;*.snd)
  • Avalon Steinberg (*.smp)
  • AVR Microdeal (*.avr)
  • Covox V8 (*.v8)
  • DiamondWare Digitized (*.dwd)
  • IFF 8SVX Amiga (*.iff;*.svx)
  • IRCAM Sound File (*.sf)
  • Psion Sound File (*.wve)
  • Raw File (*.raw)
  • SAMP Amiga (*.sam)
  • Sample Dump Standard (*.sds)
  • Sample Dump eXchange (*.sdx)
  • SampleVision (*.smp)
  • Samplitude RAM project(*.rap)
  • SndTool (*.snd)
  • Sound Designer I (*.dig;*.sd)
  • Sounder (*.snd)
  • SoundStage (*.sfi)
  • VOC Creative Labs (*.voc)
  • WAVE Microsoft (*.wav)

    • Modules
  • Composer 669 Module (*.669)
  • FastTracker Instrument (*.xi)
  • FastTracker Module (*.xm)
  • Oktalyzer Module (*.okt)
  • Pro/NoiseTracker Module (*.mod)
  • ScreamTracker 3 Module (*.s3m)
  • UltraTracker Module (*ult)
  • ...

    • Movies
  • AVI Microsoft (*.avi)
  • Quicktime (*.mov)

    • Patches & Banks
  • Downloadable Sounds Level 1 (*.dls)
  • Gravis Patch (*.pat)
  • Guillemot Maxisound Bank (*.94B)
  • Guillemot Maxisound Bank (*.94K)
  • Guillemot Maxisound Instruments (*.94I)
  • SoundFont 1 Creative Labs (*.sbk)
  • SoundFont 2 Creative Labs (*.sf2)
  • Terratec TTS Bank for EWS64 (*.tts)
  • Turtle Beach Pinnacle Bank (*.pbf)
  • Turtle Beach Wavefront Bank (*.wfb)
  • Turtle Beach Wavefront Drumkit (*.wfd)
  • Turtle Beach Wavefront Program (*.wfp)
  • Virtual Waves 2 Program (*.prg)
  • ...