Output Co-Producer is the fastest way to find samples that fit. It's a plugin that listens, curates & lets you decide.
Powered by AI search and song analysis, it listens to your track and recommends the best possible samples based on harmonic and rhythmic content, as well as user-provided text prompts. Co-Producer plays back samples in the same key and tempo to streamline your creative process.
Output products are made by musicians for musicians, we believe that AI should power your workflow, but not make choices for you.
For you visual learners, here is a video walk through.
Key Features
Faster, Smarter Sample Discovery: Co-Producer listens to your track, recommends samples, and allows you to guide the results.
Drag and drop Samples: Access to the Output Library is as easy search, preview, drag and drop.
Unlimited Access: No credits required—get unlimited access to a premium sample library.
Optimized Workflow: Designed for seamless integration in any DAW with enhanced playback and slicing functionality when paired with Arcade.
Getting Started: Installation & Initialization
Log in and download the Installer from account.output.com.
Open and run the installer.
Open your Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) of choice.
Load Co-Producer as a stereo audio effect on the Stereo Out track.
Log in using your Output account user name and password.
We strongly recommend placing Co-Producer on your master bus to take advantage of the advanced audio analysis features."
Using Co-Producer
You can search for samples in 3 ways
Audio only search
Text only search
Audio and text search
Audio only search
Choose the song key.
Click the orb that says 'CAPTURE YOUR AUDIO'
Choose how many bars of audio Co-Producer should capture.
4 bars: Use this option when you are looking for samples that fit within a smaller playback selection.
8 bars: Recommended when available, as your playback selection will have more harmonic and rhythmic content to pull from with an 8 bar capture.
Start playback in your DAW.
Wait for Co-Producer to capture the selected number of bars.
Make sure the playhead begins in the desired location you want
Co-Producer to analyze.
Press Enter/Return or click 'FIND SAMPLES' to search for complementary samples.
What happens to my analyzed audio?
Co-Producer does not use your audio to train AI generative models. Your audio is uploaded and analyzed in our cloud to provide Co-Producer to you. We may further analyze your audio to ensure search accuracy and to optimize recommendations and analysis in order to enhance product features.
If you prefer not to have your audio used for product improvements, you can opt out in your Output.com account. Opting out also deletes any stored audio files.
Text only search
For best results use descriptive details when looking for specific sounds.
Writer’s block? Try this structure: Descriptor + Genre + Vibe + Instrument
Press Enter/Return or click Find Samples to generate results.
Audio and text search
Follow the steps above, but combine both text and an audio capture to guide the results!
Results Page
The Results Page displays sample search results. Each sample row includes playback and context menu controls:
Preview Samples: Click the play button to preview a sample. This will play the sample in the selected 'SESSION KEY' and 'SESSION BPM' found on the bottom preview player.
NEW! Re-Imagine
The Re-imagine feature in Co-Producer takes Output’s royalty-free samples and uses ethically trained AI to create infinite, one-of-a-kind variations—always unique to you. Every sound is fresh, flip-ready, and built to drop straight into your DAW.
How it works:
Run a Co-Producer text or audio search
Once you find a sound you like, hit Re-imagine to explore infinite variations
Our ethically trained AI transforms Output’s premium, musician-made samples into endless, unique ideas — always royalty-free, always uniquely yours.
Preview, drag and drop right into your DAW
Re-imagine is live now in Co-Producer—jump in, flip some samples, and come along for the ride as we build it out.
More Info
More Info
Samples are tempo sync'd to your DAW BPM, unless 'ORIGINAL BPM' has been manually selected.
In normal operation, Co-Producer will use bar 1 of your session as the starting point for sample previews, then loop them indefinitely throughout your session.
If an audio capture is present, Co-Producer will use bar 1 of the audio capture as the starting point for sample previews.
If looping is active in your DAW, the loop start position becomes bar 1 for sample previews.
Sample rating: Selecting the thumbs-up or thumbs down option on each sample helps us improve Co-Producer’s results.
Context Menu: Click on the
for more options.Show Similar Samples: Generates a new set of results based on the selected sample’s characteristics. Click the X to return to your original search results.
Sample Data: This will display the Sample’s original key and tempo for reference.
Generate Sampler in Arcade: This will display a helpful modal of how you can further drag and drop samples into Arcade's Kit Generator.
Be sure to set the 'SESSION KEY' in Arcade once you generate a kit!
Re-imagine is ethically AI-powered, musician-designed.
Co-Producer uses ethically trained generative AI to create entirely new, royalty-free samples from the Output collection. All the sounds you generate will be one-of-a-kind.
Behind the scenes, Re-imagine is trained on sound libraries that are royalty free, musician-made and ethically sourced — including Output’s own catalog and a set of Creative Commons licensed content.
What’s different about how Re-imagine is trained in Co-Producer?
The AI model underlying Re-imagine was trained on the Output royalty-free sample library you know and love, meticulously crafted by our team of sample artisans over the last decade, in addition to CC0, CC BY, or CC Sampling+-licensed content.
As a result, samples created by Re-imagine offer the high audio quality that has been Output’s trademark, enabling you to generate unique, professional-quality sounds that are 100% copyright-free and unique to you.
For details on use and ownership of Output sounds consult our terms of use or reach out to us at [email protected]
What does ethical AI mean?
As a company of musicians building for musicians, we believe that AI should power your workflow, not replace your creativity. We train our models only on open source material and our owned library, not on music that we don’t have legal rights to.
How does it work?
Re-imagine processes Co-Producer samples through a generative machine learning model that can produce endless variations. The sample, along with additional metadata, is used as an input to this process. In this way, the generative outputs can still preserve various characteristics of the original sample, like instrument, genre, melody, harmony, rhythm, and style, while still being unique and never-before-heard.