mTOOLS is the result of 10 years of research and development, following the needs and trends of Post Production sound designers, and matching these with available technology.

This second generation architecture provides a fantastically powerful, flexible and configurable environment for large scale asset management.

Comprising Authoring tools to build your sound file archive, administration tools to easily cope with hundreds of Gigabytes of sound, and finally an unmatched user experience, searching, auditioning and then importing sound from your server or local storage.

Powerful:

mTOOLS copes easily with hundreds of Gigabytes and hundreds of thousands of SFX or Music files. Its architecture leverages fifth generation database technology in Filemaker Pro to provide ultra fast, simple or complex searching of available assets, combined with a leading edge audio technology integrated with the database.

Flexible:

You can select any type of fileserver for mTOOLS, whether it be Gallery's own mTOOLS Server, Appleshare, Windows NT, Unix or Novell, the end user experience will be the same. Similarly you can choose to store your sound assets in SDII, AIFF, WAV or MPEG Compressed formats, freely mixing these to suit your needs.

Configurable:

mTOOLS' unique database architecture presents users with unrivalled options for configuration and customisation of the human interface and functionality. Powerful scripting throughout the suite of applications allows power users to further enhance mTOOLS with personalised asset management functionality.