AI Assistant

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Overview

The AI Assistant is a chat panel that searches your sample library, suggests samples by description, and answers production questions. It can draw on every sample in your processed library, on the manuals for major DAWs and plugins, and on Sample Vault’s own documentation — so “how do I sidechain this?” and “how does indexing work?” are both fair game. Answers pulled from documentation link back to the page they came from.

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Modes

The dropdown next to the chat input switches between two response modes:

• Creative (default) — more expressive, exploratory responses. Best when you want variation, fresh ideas, or arrangement and composition suggestions.
• Fast — quick, lighter responses for simple requests, documentation questions, and general chat.

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Chat input

The chat input supports multi-line text and submits on Enter. The button at the far left of the input opens your chat history. The lightbulb button to the right offers categorized prompt suggestions you can insert and edit before sending.

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Sample results

When the AI finds samples, they appear inline as collapsible playable cards. Each card includes:

• Play/pause and waveform
• Copy to clipboard
• Drag handle — drag straight into your DAW
• Info for full metadata
• Right-click menu — find similar, get creative suggestions, analyze, add to favorites or collections, show other samples in the same directory

The AI returns one sample per directory by default to keep results varied. Use Show other samples in directory from the right-click menu to see the rest of a folder. When a reply includes more than one sample, an actions row beneath it works on the whole set at once: copy them all to your clipboard (applying your playback cleanup the same way copying or dragging a single sample does), add them all to a collection, send them to Sketch as a kit, or select them all to drag as a batch or bulk-edit.

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Selecting chips across the chat

Cmd/Ctrl + click a sample chip in any message to add it to the selection. Shift + click ranges within a single message. With a chip focused (or an existing selection active), Cmd/Ctrl + A selects every chip across the whole chat — when nothing is focused, it falls through to text selection as you’d expect. Selected chips feed the same selection bar used everywhere else, so you can drag the whole batch into your DAW or bulk-edit through the More menu. See Multi-select & batch actions.

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Building a kit

Ask the assistant for a kit or a starting beat and it assembles one from your own library — choosing sounds that fit the vibe you describe and saving them as a named kit you can reopen later. The reply includes a link that opens the kit in Sketch; when Sketch is already open with unsaved changes, it confirms before replacing them. Nothing is synthesised — every pad is a file you already own.

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Building a collection

Describe a slice of your library and the assistant gathers it into a named collection, then opens the Library scoped to it so you see the result straight away. You can also ask it to show any collection you already have, and it narrows the Library to that one.

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Projects

A project carries context — BPM, key, genre, mood, notes, todos — that the AI reads on every message. Switch between projects from the title bar Project Selector. Project notes live in the Note Editor; recent activity feeds the AI through Recall. When a DAW session is open, the assistant can also look inside the project file on request — the tracks, the samples and plugins in use, the tempo and key — and cross-reference those samples against your library to say which you already own and what it knows about them.

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Memory

The assistant keeps track of what matters between sessions, so you stop re-explaining yourself each time you open a chat. It remembers two kinds of things:

• Durable facts — your preferences, the conventions you work by, and things about your library, like the genres you own and your go-to tempo ranges. These stay until they change.
• Current work — lighter context about what you’re in the middle of. This fades on its own if it stops coming up, so a one-off session doesn’t linger.

The assistant builds and refreshes this on its own from your recent conversations and library activity, about once a day. You can also tell it to remember something the moment it matters — or to forget it — and it takes effect right away. Everything the assistant remembers is visible and editable in Settings, alongside your assistant instructions: read any entry, edit or delete it, switch single entries off, or turn memory off entirely. When an entry is flagged as possibly out of date, you decide whether to confirm or dismiss it. What the assistant remembers stays in your library’s database on your machine. Memory is part of Professional Suite, or Lifetime with your own AI key. On Home Studio and Demo Room, the assistant doesn’t carry memory between sessions.

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Measured context

Separately from memory — and on every plan — the assistant reads a measured picture of your library and your current session: the genres you own versus the ones you actually reach for, the tempo range you work in, the searches you keep coming back to, and what you’ve searched and played this session. You don’t manage this and it isn’t remembered; it’s recomputed from your activity, so it stays current on its own.

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Tool calls

When the AI searches or fetches data, you’ll see a status indicator: a spinner while running, a checkmark when complete. Common actions: “Searching for samples…”, “Finding similar samples…”, “Browsing local files…”, “Fetching sample details…”.

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Troubleshooting

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The AI gives generic responses instead of understanding my style

Add more detail to your AI Assistant Instructions in Settings. Replace “I make electronic music” with something like: “I produce melodic techno at 120–125 BPM. I prefer organic percussion over synthetic drums and synth patches with movement and modulation.”