Windows · One library, every DAW
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Crate reads your whole sample library — 131,000 items is a normal Tuesday — and gives you faceted browsing, real duplicate detection, project↔sample inference and a kit builder. Detect duplicates and leverage your file system's hard-link feature to remove them by creating hard links, reclaiming space without breaking existing projects. Pick the connectors for the DAWs you actually use and Crate writes straight back into them.
Choose your connectors
One-time purchase. Perpetual licence for Crate 1.x, 12 months of updates, 3 machines. Add more connectors later to the same key.
Browse a library the size of a hard drive
Facets for source, media type, category and tag state. Exclusions that stick. A detail panel and waveform on every row, so you hear before you decide.
Build a kit and hand it to your sampler
Detected roles from filename and folder, 16 pads, alphabetical order that matches pad order. Export the preset for your DAW's sampler or drag the built folder straight onto the pads.
What you actually get
- Perpetual licence
- You own Crate 1.x forever. It does not stop working, ever.
- 12 months of updates
- Every build released within 12 months of your purchase is yours. After that, Crate keeps running on any build released inside that window — it only declines to run on newer ones.
- 3 machines
- Studio, laptop, spare. Reinstalling on a machine you already registered does not use a slot, and you can free a slot yourself from your account page.
- Per connector
- $49 per DAW connector, or $79 for every connector on sale. Add more later — they land on the same key.
- Remove duplicates safely
- Crate finds duplicate samples and can leverage your file system's hard-link feature to remove them by creating hard links, so you reclaim disk space without breaking projects that reference the same audio.
- No subscription
- One payment. Tax handled at checkout.