Sempal

Sempal is an audio sample triage and collection builder with fast waveform preview, destructive selection edits, and export workflows tuned for DAW users.

Quick links

• Usage guide
• Changelog
• Latest downloads
• Source on GitHub
• Buy me a coffee

Highlights

• Lightning-fast triage with keep/trash tagging, fuzzy search, and keyboard-first navigation.
• Waveform selection tools for crop, trim, fades, normalize, mute, and looping.
• Drag-and-drop exports for clips and collection items, with per-collection folders.
• Cross-platform builds using Rust and egui.

Build from source

cargo run --release
# or
cargo build --release && target/release/sempal

Configuration

• App settings live in ~/.config/.sempal/config.toml (per platform config dir).
• Sources and collections are stored in library.db in the same folder.
• Each source keeps .sempal_samples.db beside the audio; logs stay under .sempal/logs.