Sample Libraries

Sample libraries are collections of mapped, playable sounds along with images, tags, and other metadata. Without sample libraries, Floe can't produce any sound.

Sample libraries often have a theme or focus, such as 'Music Box Suite' — multisampled music box instruments, or 'Lost Reveries' — a collection of ambient single-sample ambient tones.

A sample library may contain:

• Instruments
• Impulse Responses

Sample libraries are not loaded directly; instead you load the instruments into Floe's layers, or impulse responses into Floe's convolution reverb. However, you can view your installed libraries by opening the 3-dots menu on Floe's main window and clicking "Info".

Libraries typically focus on instruments, however, sometimes a sample library exclusively contains impulse responses for use in the convolution reverb - expanding the options for sound design.

At a technical level, Floe sample libraries are a new, custom format; they're open, portable folders of audio files and configuration files developed with Floe's developer tools. Any user can access the audio files if they wish. Typically, a sample library is in a folder with a name like Developer Name - Library Name.

Sample libraries can contain thousands of audio files and can be many gigabytes in size. They typically have a Samples subfolder and a file called floe.lua.