Sample & Loop Manipulation

6 tools

GitHub

Why I use it: Python library for fast audio analysis — beat-aware chopping and BPM detection

4.6
SoX

Why I use it: Swiss Army knife of audio processing — CLI tool for converting, trimming, and applying effects

4.4
Rubberband

Why I use it: High-quality time-stretching and pitch-shifting library with CLI and C/Python bindings

4.4
FFmpeg

Why I use it: Universal media tool — transcode, slice, and process audio files from the command line

4.6
Pydub

Why I use it: Simple Python library for audio manipulation — slice, concatenate, overlay, and export audio

4.2
Soundfile

Why I use it: Python library for reading and writing WAV, FLAC, and OGG files via libsndfile

4.3