Exploring Jamahook’s extensive feature set

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Jamahook’s AI allows us to scan existing audio and discover similar sounds that would complement it – giving us the ability to overhaul a current loop completely or find finishing touches. Let’s test it by loading a half-finished eight-bar project. We’ve opened an old project and looped the chorus section.

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Let’s open Jamahook Sound Assistant on the Master output, click ‘Match’, and playback the project to let the AI analyse the current loop. Once finished, you’ll see a list of samples from the Jamahook cloud, similar in sonic characteristics. You can switch between ‘Harmony’, ‘Rhythm’, and ‘Drums’.

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We’d like some more harmonious loops to spice up our composition, so we’ll search samples in the ‘Harmony’ tab. You’ll notice the AI automatically picks loops of similar tempos, keys, instruments, and genre types. Check out the neat synth loop we found and added to our project.

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Note that you can also direct Jamahook Sound Assistant to search for similar sounds only located on your HDD by clicking the cloud icon on the left-hand menu. This is useful if you’ve already got a cohesive sample library but you’re not sure what’s missing from your project.

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Also note that Loopcloud Sounds (Loopmasters’ internal DAW sample library plugin) also features Jamahook’s AI to help search for similar samples. Just open Loopcloud Sounds, find a sample you like, click ‘…’, and Find Similar. Useful if you like a sample, but it’s not quite perfect.

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This is also especially useful if you want to collate a library of matching samples. You can select a base sample, like the drum loop in our previous step, and then add a bunch of similar sounds from the list to your Favourites by hitting the heart-shaped icon in the right-hand column.

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You can then easily locate sounds in future by heading to your Favourites collection. Or, create your own specific collection using the Loopcloud desktop app. Head over to the Loopcloud desktop app, open the ‘Collections’ panel, and click ‘Create new collection’. Rename it if you wish.

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Repeat the process from step five: identify a base sample and click Find Similar. Instead of adding to your Favourites, click ‘...’ and Add to collection. Repeat the process to find samples of different types. Then you can access them all from your ‘Collections’ panel. Voilà! A library of similar sounds.