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COSMOS Sample Finder Black Friday pricing puts this Waves utility plugin at $29.99, 62% off, until Nov 26, 2026. It's an AI-powered sample browser that sorts and tags every sample on your hard drive.
The tagging runs on a neural network engine, so you stop hunting by filename. A file called asdf_#12C.wav gets identified by what it actually sounds like.
COSMOS scans your drive and builds a database of your samples. For each file it assigns tags for instrument, timbre, style, key and BPM.
It also logs sonic characteristics, such as loop or one-shot and dry or wet. Search by those tags and the matching files come up, whatever they happen to be named.
Type "saturated" and "kick" and you get your saturated kicks. The more tags you combine, the narrower your results get, for instance a bright drum loop with plenty of reverb at 120 BPM, or a cinematic, saturated synth in F# minor. It also helps you re-discover samples you forgot you had.
The favorites list is where you park the samples you reach for constantly. Collections let you group files by project, genre or whatever system suits you.
You can run COSMOS as a standalone app, or open it from the Waves CR8 sampler.
On Mac, it supports macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15, in VST, AU and AAX formats.
On PC, it needs Windows 10 or later, in VST and AAX formats.
If your library is a few thousand files deep, a tool that tags by sound instead of by name changes how you browse. The 2500-plus included royalty-free samples give you material to search before you've pointed it at your own folders.
Yes. The COSMOS Sample Finder Black Friday deal takes 62% off this Waves utility plugin, bringing it to $29.99. The deal runs until Nov 26, 2026.
It uses an AI neural networks engine to analyze the samples on your hard drive, then auto-tags instrument, timbre, style, key, BPM and sonic characteristics. You search by tag, so filenames don't matter.
It comes with over 2500 royalty-free samples. You get three views (waveform, list and cluster), plus a favorites list and collections. It works with WAV, AIF, OGG and FLAC files.
On Mac it runs on macOS Monterey 12 through Sequoia 15 as VST, AU and AAX. On PC it needs Windows 10 or later, as VST and AAX. It also runs standalone or from the Waves CR8 sampler.
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