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Waves announces V16 update to COSMOS Sample Finder
Knoxville, TN, June 25, 2025 — Waves Audio, a global leader in professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, is excited to announce a V16 update to COSMOS Sample Finder, its AI-powered sample manager.
Musicians and producers know that a well-organized sample collection is key to creativity. Searching for misplaced or misnamed samples in cluttered folders can be frustrating and time-consuming. Waves’ COSMOS Sample Finder eliminates this issue by automatically consolidating all one-shots and loops into a single, easy-to-search location. Using AI-powered categorization and tagging, COSMOS ensures that the perfect sample is always within reach.
This latest V16 update brings significant improvements, enhancing workflow efficiency and DAW integration. Key new features include:
- DAW Plugin & Sync: COSMOS now functions as an insert plugin within DAWs (as well as a standalone app).
- Sample Auditioning: Preview samples in context, adjusted to session BPM and key.
- Smart Organization: Auto-grouping of sonically identical audio files for streamlined management.
- Optimized Scan Times: Cloud-based processing significantly reduces scanning duration.
- CPU Optimization: Adjustable performance settings tailored to user preferences.
- Refreshed User Interface: A sleek, updated design for an improved user experience.
Additional features include: The COSMOS Sample Finder offers AI-powered sample categorization, efficiently organizing collections by instrument, key, BPM and tags. It supports multiple formats, including WAV, AIF, OGG and FLAC files, ensuring compatibility with various sample types. Users can choose between using COSMOS as a standalone application or as a DAW-integrated plugin, adapting it to their preferred workflow. The tool also includes over 2,500 royalty-free samples, providing immediate creative inspiration.
Additionally, COSMOS offers both waveform and list views, allowing users to preview samples visually or access detailed descriptions. The unique COSMOS Cluster View presents related one-shots in intuitive clusters, making it easier to audition and select the right sounds. Multiple search options provide flexibility in finding samples by instrument, tags, key, BPM or specific search terms. Users can explore broad categories, refine their selections, and even let COSMOS group identical audio files to eliminate duplicates.
Furthermore, the DAW sync feature allows users to audition samples within their song, adjusting them to match the session’s BPM and key. Additionally, COSMOS integrates perfectly with Waves’ CR8 Creative Sampler, enabling effortless sample loading within Waves CR8 Creative Sampler for an optimized workflow.
With the updated version of the COSMOS Sample Finder, Waves Audio is revolutionizing sample organization, transforming sample management into an intuitive, frictionless experience, keeping creativity flowing without interruption. Whether used as a standalone application or integrated within a DAW, COSMOS V16 offers the smartest, fastest, and most efficient way to manage all your samples, eliminating the need to waste precious time searching through multiple disorganized folders.
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Waves COSMOS Sample Finder just got WAY better!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVsR90RpXU
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Photo caption 1: Waves COSMOS user interfaceAbout Waves Audio Ltd.:
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio DSP solutions for music production, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, post-production, live sound, broadcast, commercial and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early ‘90s, Waves has developed a comprehensive line of over 240 audio plugins and numerous hardware devices. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical GRAMMY® Award in 2011; an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award for its Waves Clarity Vx Pro plugin in 2023; and a 2024 NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Award for its Clarity Vx DeReverb Pro plugin. Additionally, its early flagship plugin, the Q10 equalizer, was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame.Increasingly leveraging pioneering techniques in artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning, as well as the company’s three decades of accumulated expertise in psychoacoustics, Waves technologies are being used to improve sound quality in a growing number of market sectors. Around the world, Waves’ award-winning plugins are utilized in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games. Additionally, Waves now offers hardware-plus-software solutions (including the revolutionary eMotion LV1 mixer) for professional audio markets. The company’s WavesLive division is a leader in the live sound sector, spearheading the development of solutions for all live platforms. Products from Waves Commercial Audio enable A/V system integrators and installers to deliver superior sound quality for corporate, commercial, government, educational, entertainment, sports and house-of-worship applications. Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers semiconductor and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics applications, used in laptops, smartphones, smart speakers, gaming headsets, TVs and more from industry leaders such as Dell, Google, Fitbit, Acer, Asus, Hisense and others.
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