Music producers, beatmakers, and DJs are always searching for fresh sounds and unique samples to elevate their projects. In the digital age, the hunt for inspiration has shifted from dusty record stores to the limitless expanse of the internet. Enter Samplette.io-an innovative, AI-powered web platform designed to transform the way creators discover, sample, and remix music.
What is Samplette.io?
Samplette.io is a web-based tool that enables users to explore and extract music samples directly from YouTube’s vast audio library. Tailored for music creators of all levels, it leverages advanced AI to streamline the sampling process, making it easier than ever to find the perfect sound for any project.
Key Features
Advanced AI Discovery Samplette.io uses artificial intelligence to generate and recommend random music samples based on your preferences. Users can filter searches by genre, year, tempo, region, views, and more, ensuring highly targeted results that fit specific creative needs.
Rich Sample Library By tapping into YouTube’s enormous database, Samplette.io offers access to a diverse range of tracks and sounds. Whether you’re looking for obscure jazz riffs, vintage funk breaks, or contemporary electronic loops, the platform’s filters help you zero in on what you need.
User-Friendly Interface The platform is designed with simplicity in mind. Its clean, intuitive layout allows even beginners to navigate with ease, while advanced users can fine-tune their searches for more precise results.
Sample Management and Sharing Users can save their favorite samples, organize them for future reference, and share links with collaborators. Downloading samples as MP3s is also supported, making integration into music projects seamless.
Free Access Samplette.io is free to use, with no hidden costs or subscription fees for its core features. This makes it an accessible resource for creators worldwide, regardless of budget.
Who is Samplette.io For?
Music Producers & Beatmakers: The detailed filters and vast library make it easy to find rare or genre-specific samples, perfect for crafting unique beats and tracks.
DJs: Discovering fresh material for sets or remixes becomes efficient and inspiring.
Content Creators: Those seeking background music or sound effects can quickly explore and extract what they need.
Pros and Cons
Pros
Cons
Easy-to-use, intuitive interface
Limited to samples available on YouTube
Powerful AI-driven search and filtering
Audio quality depends on YouTube source
Free to use, no subscription required
Not suitable for vinyl-exclusive or non-digital samples
Ability to save, share, and download samples
Some advanced features may require a learning curve
Encourages creativity and community engagement
Requires a stable internet connection
Getting Started with Samplette.io
Visit the Website: Open your browser and go to Samplette.io.
Set Your Filters: Use sliders and dropdowns to filter by genre, year, tempo, and more.
Browse and Preview: Listen to samples directly in the interface, view BPM, key, and waveform.
Save and Download: Mark favorites and download MP3s for your projects.
Share: Copy links to collaborate or showcase your discoveries.
No account is required to start exploring, making onboarding fast and frictionless for new users.
Final Thoughts
Samplette.io stands out as a powerful, accessible, and innovative tool for anyone interested in music sampling. Its AI-driven approach, rich feature set, and user-friendly design make it a go-to resource for both budding and experienced creators. While it’s not a replacement for crate-digging in record stores, it brings the thrill of discovery to your fingertips-free of charge and full of inspiration
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Obsidian is one of the applications which helps you model the world around you, where the application allows several approaches to approach this. I tried in the past years several approach to this but at the moment it is my main hub for dropping in information for both personal use as well as for projects.
Aristotle said that history was the first great invention: the sequential order of things. Like a WordPress blog the daily note is a one-click note of the current date which allows you to enter the things for that day. This can vary from person to person so you can apply templates to setup your daily note and in addition a lot of community plugins are out there to greatly extend this in any direction.
It helps me to find e.g. the meeting notes of a certain meeting on a certain day or visa versa on which day a meeting was. It also
helps me to blog along without any mental effort.
On a higher level the time variable makes the current space-time configuration an uri (within this universe dimension).
Syncing allows you to have the full set of vaults, including all latest changes, on all devices, whether it is multiple laptops and/or mobile devices. Initially this was on my drivers to propose OneNote for our family household since, especially with non-techy users, it is easily explainable and the chance is they already have one-drive sync running.
Obsidian has a (premium/paid) Sync solution out of the box which costs $4 a month and is probably the way to go for everyone looking for the out of the box, no mental overload solution.
Initially I played with this and installed Synology Drive on all laptops, then had a Synology webdav sync to a public webdav provider and from there sync to mobile devices via a sync app. This worked well. But it does require to walk by each person’s device to set it up.
I was however also slowly playing with Syncthing (https://syncthing.net/) and this has advantages: now only one solution is needed on all devices. I have Syncthing running on my NAS acting as main hub for all vaults. And syncthing on all laptops and mobile devices. There are some exceptions: you will have to set for specific (dot) files to prevent configuration changes also applied to be synced everywhere but relatively simple. I made all mobile devices one way sync only, so read-only, since I normally use it only to look things up.
Note that certain plugins who dynamically update content within pages will lead to sync conflicts, leaving a gazillion conflict files, so better to not use those plugins.
Obsidian Community Plugins
After you get used to the basic Obsidian functionality and read all help pages https://help.obsidian.md/Home you should be familiar with the application. It’s not that complicated in usage since in a sense it is a file explorer for markdown files. Allowing you to edit markdown files more easily.
You will have some vaguer ideas on what you would want next. I would advise to go through the tab of community plugins within Obsidian and check out the ones that might be interesting for you. Definitely sort them by popularity since this gives you and idea on what probably is also useful for yourself. Advise is to install these only one by one and playing with each plugin since otherwise there is a chance you will be overwhelmed with new stuff.
For reference, I use, among others, the following plugins. Since the GitHub pages provide enough information by themselves and there are a gazillion YouTube videos and blogs about most of them, Will leave just the list here:
Folder Notes
For me essential. I use this to make folders clickable and have at a folder level information. It makes it a bit more wiki alike and less explorer alike. It takes a note with the same name as the parent folder as the main folder note. I used to use AidenX FolderNote but this is no longer maintained so switched to: which in addition gives a range of new options.
For me essential. I have a Git Repository on my NAS. This plugin continuous updates the Git Repo, so that , just in case I ever need to go back in time, versioning allows me to this exactly.
For me essential. Probably the single plugin that brings Obsidian to live. It allows me to write scripts to report on both unstructured and structured information. I have simple out of the box scripts and more complex scripts to give me overviews and insights for various uses. Longer scripts require a longer time to write and test but in the end you pretty much can generate anything with this. A birthday calender is a nice one to start with.
For me essential. It allows you to add todo’s everywhere (with a lot of properties) and then display them anywhere using a long range of query support. Such as “give me all closed tasks of this week with the tag “projectA”. This I was really missing initially in OneNote, since I categorize stuff and in each subpart of categorization there are todo’s.
I use to daily pull up my Outlook calendar for the day and generate via a template for each meeting a placeholder including the time and properties. When, then during the meeting I already have the place for putting down notes and actions whereafter I tag the section so that I on overview pages can track what I did and have per tag referring to a certain area e.g. a project the list of meeting, what tasks I closed that week and what tasks are still open.
It is often handy to open an image in the default app or show it in the file explorer. E.g. when a website upload page asks from where to upload a file.
I run the Kroki on my server (self managed) https://kroki.io/#install . With this plugin I can use any kind of text to image in any note. It allows for the widest range of text to image support, so pretty handy.
To have my vaults readily available in my tray, each vault with a different icon, provides me with a one-click open vault X on any machine. So no mental load required to open a vault.
This lets me customize my UI and display the icons I want to see and allows me to add various macro’s also to e.g. the sidebar which makes it also a macro cache.
Allows me to add icons and other styling to notes based on e.g. their YAML frontmatter. E.g. when the tag is “female” it shows the text in pink and the female icon.
I like it when external links are preceded with their favicon. I once wrote such a plugin for WordPress. This one does exactly that, handy for overviews with links on a topic.
When you wan to move all your attachments to the correct place you defined once e.g. under the current folder in the subfolder “attachments”, this plugin allows you to do this. In addition it drives you to use the default Markdown format for attachments (relative) so that it stays compatible with any markdown editor.
Took a multi-year long break from PHP, WordPress, Plugins, etc. Let’s see if I can reboot on this.
PHP development Environment
Last time I checked we were on PHP 5 and object orientation was not present in most plugins, so struggled with some questions about it. I think I need to read-up what happened since. Did a quick read-up and interesting to see how programming language developments happen in all of these languages, all in a sort-of likewise format. It would be interesting to make a site that would compare syntax for each language, probably gen-ai can spit it out. On the top you would choose your languages and on the left you would choose statements that are either build-in or are custom code or are some kind of extensions. That probably would give a nice overview. E.g. to see how every (new) feature looks like compared in PHP, NetCore, Java, Kotlin and e.g. PowerShell. I read a lot of cool stuff, probably WordPress plugin development is a nice place to play with the new things.
Last time I checked I used Eclipse PHP, X-Debug and the Zend framework for coding and debugging. Since I now have a nice Virtual Machines server as well as a docker and k8s cluster at home, I think I will create a dedicated virtual machine (Hyper-V) for my PHP WordPress development environment. But… what is the state in 2024? I know back then Netbeans, PHPStorm were popular. I do a lot of stuff in Visual Studio Code. Have to check what is the nicest for me. Obviously need to include references to the 2 folders of WordPress and have debugging support. Will run the VM under Windows. Eclipse PDT is still nice I think. It is free. It is Eclipse and somehow I like the environment. I could also go for Jet Brains but then I will definitely go for the “all products pack” but that sets me back 350 euro a year. That is an investment for purely hobby and my wife will ask wtf this is. but I do meddle with Kotlin, Python, have to think about this. Free/open is a better direction for me I think. Especially since I have a LOT of other subscriptions already.
Virtual Machine : I have created 2 LUN’s and for each a ISCSI IQN that allows multiple sessions. From various machines I use Hyper-V manager to manage the Virtual Machines on there and start them when I need them. This is handy because I can centralize the backup and never need to worry about losing content. Also handy because my “workstations” laptops” can be clean and explode without a prob. There is a trick to allow Docker inside a Windows Virtual Machine (nested virtualization) so that you can further virtualize inside Windows virtual machines: Set-VMProcessor -VMName <VMName> -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true. It is comfortable to know that I still have 45 Tb free for virtual machines. So let’s create one for WordPress PHP plugin development
One of my favorite game soundtracks (and games) is Sleeping Dogs, here I tried on udio.com to create a song that could have been part of that soundtrack. (also published this on udio here).
