Pack to Rack Download Pack to Rack v0.3

Make exploring sample packs easier—and a lot more fun.

Turn a folder of one-shots into a rack you can play, tweak, and explore. Hear your samples together, swap sounds as you go, and find combinations worth building a track around.

A hand drags a one-shots folder into Pack to Rack, revealing a drum rack. Rand then changes the selected kick, snare, and hi-hat samples and their selector knobs.

Less clicking through folders.
More hearing what works.

Exploring a sample pack can kill your momentum. Preview a kick, open another folder, audition a snare, try to imagine them together. It’s even harder when you’re working in a genre you don’t know as well.

You need to hear the sounds in context to know what fits.

  • Drums / One-shots
    • Kicks
      • kick_01.wav
      • kick_02.wav
      • kick_03.wav
    • Snares
      • snare_01.wav
      • snare_02.wav
      • snare_03.wav
    • Hi-hats
      • hat_closed.wav
      • hat_open.wav
      • hat_03.wav

Your one-shots,
ready to mix and match.

Each sample folder gets its own pad and a selector knob with the same name. Choose where to save the rack and copied samples, or use your User Library.

Start a pattern, then swap kicks, snares, hats, and other sounds while it plays. Explore the pack by making music with it.

An Ableton Drum Rack made from a sample pack, with separate sample selectors for kicks, snares, claps, hi-hats, crashes, shakers, percussion, and effects, plus a Rand button.

Roll the dice.
Keep what clicks.

Randomize the sample selection for a quick sketch or a fresh starting point. Keep the combinations you like, change the sounds that don’t fit, and follow the idea.

Six clicks on the rack’s Rand button change the drum sample selectors to new combinations.

Runs locally.
No telemetry.

Pack to Rack reads the sample folder you choose and saves the rack and copied samples to your chosen destination. It doesn’t upload data or collect telemetry.

The code is open source. View the code on GitHub.