Use your Splice samples in SampleStack

Splice downloads are ordinary audio files in an ordinary folder, so SampleStack can browse, tag, and convert them like any other library. This page covers finding that folder, adding it, keeping Splice happy while you organize, and getting the samples onto hardware.

Where Splice saves samples

By default the Splice desktop app saves everything inside a folder named Splice in your home folder. Samples sit under Splice/sounds/packs/, with one folder per pack, so a library built up over a few years can hold hundreds of pack folders.

If you changed the location, or are not sure, open the Splice desktop app's preferences. The current sounds folder is listed there. In Finder, Go → Home shows the default location.

Add the folder to SampleStack

1. Choose File → Add Sample Library, or click the + button in the sidebar.
2. Select the Splice folder, or the sounds folder inside it if you only want samples.
3. Click Open. The pack folders appear in the sidebar and the samples in the browser.

SampleStack reads the folder in place. It does not copy the samples anywhere. Loops get their tempo detected automatically, so the BPM field fills in as you browse. See BPM and pitch detection.

Organize without moving files

Splice keeps track of what you have downloaded by where it saved it. Renaming or moving files inside the Splice folder can make the Splice app lose track of them, so leave the folder structure alone and do your organizing in SampleStack:

• Give samples a category, so kicks from forty different packs show up together.
• Add tags for how you use them, like 808, vocal chops, or live set. Select several samples to tag them all at once.
• Rate the ones you come back to, then filter by rating from the sidebar.
• Type the key in the inspector when you need it. Splice filenames often include the key, but SampleStack does not detect key on its own.

To use a sample in a session, drag it from SampleStack's companion window into your DAW. See Drag samples into your DAW.

Send Splice samples to hardware

Most Splice samples are 44.1 kHz, 24-bit WAV files, often stereo. That suits a DAW, but many hardware samplers want something else: the Morphagene needs 48 kHz 32-bit float, the Squid Salmple wants 16-bit mono, and several devices cap sample length.

1. Create a collection for your device with File → New Collection, pointing at its SD card or a staging folder.
2. Select samples in the Splice library. The badges show which ones the device can take as they are.
3. Click Copy to Library, or drag the samples onto the collection, and turn on Convert incompatible samples.

SampleStack converts the copies and writes them in the layout the device expects. The Splice originals are not changed. The batch converter page lists what gets converted.

Splice samples are licensed for use in your music. Check Splice's own terms before sharing converted files with anyone else, for example as part of a preset or a kit.

Loopcloud, ADSR, and other stores

The same steps work for any store that downloads files to a folder. Loopcloud's settings show where it saves downloaded samples, and packs bought from stores like ADSR Sounds arrive as zip files you unpack wherever you like. Add each folder as a library, organize with tags rather than by moving files the store's app manages, and copy to hardware collections when you need them on a device.

ReCycle loops from older libraries (.rx2, .rex, .rcy) import too, as WAVs with their slices intact. See the sample editor page.