Where this is going

Depot does one thing: it makes a big local sample collection usable. Not searchable — usable. Searching finds the file you already remember the name of; the harder question is which of two hundred kicks belongs in the track you're writing. Narrow the list, hear them one after another, pick the one that fits, drag it in, get back to the track.

Every addition is that same job done better. Depot now categorises confidently named drum one-shots, measures each sample's Peak and RMS as it scans, works out a loop's tempo — from its name or, failing that, from the audio — and finds the copies that pile up in a big collection. One day perhaps you'll describe a sound in words instead of guessing what someone named the file. The collection isn't the point. Having all of it within reach is.

It's local by design. There's no cloud, no account, no sync, no subscription — your samples are already on your disk, and everything Depot learns about them lives in a SQLite file you own. As it ships today, the app has no networking code at all. Analysis it does now, and analysis we add — from categorising drum one-shots and working out a loop's tempo to detecting its key — runs on your machine, and that's where we intend to keep it.

It never modifies your audio. Depot reads, analyses, and shows — it doesn't normalise, convert, or "clean up" your library. Your folder structure is yours; Depot just builds a searchable index on top of it.