Описание
Soundplant is a self-contained digital audio performance program that turns your computer keyboard into a fully customizable sample-triggering device.Soundplant allows the assignment of .wav, .aif, and .mp3 files of unlimited size to 72 keyboard keys, with no external devices needed and no MIDI involved. Soundplant can be used as a drum pad, to mix together tracks in realtime, to quickly sketch sound designs, or as a performance, installation, or presentation tool.Because Soundplant is not a synthesizer and instead uses your own digital samples (it\'s a \'software sampler\'), Soundplant is a virtually limitless electronic instrument.A simple graphic interface provides for drag-and-drop, point-and-click configuration of each key, including several options which control the way each sound is triggered, along with pitch, offsets, looping, volume, and panning. Sounds can be easily batch assigned across multiple keys at varying pitches and offsets, and keyboard configurations can be saved and loaded.What\'s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]· many new sound file formats supported - virtually every major file type that contains audio - including 24-bit and 32-bit wavs and aifs, compressed sounds like mp4, m4a, flac, wma, alac, wv, and ogg, audio from video files like wmv, mov, avi, divx, mpg, flv, and 3gp, and many many more· cue points supported in 8-, 16-, and 24-bit wav, aif, and swa files; easily set offsets to cue points· \'save w/ sounds\' button saves a copy of the current keymap and all sound files it uses into a single folder, making it even easier to transfer keymaps between computers, zip them up and post online, etc.· recent keymaps pulldown list with one-click access to the 20 most recently opened keymaps [this is really convenient!]· fade settings enhanced with separate fade in and out time settings· interface further refined, with onscreen keys given an animated progressive glow effect that serves as an alternate indicator of playback progress (especially useful in simple view when the full channels meter progress bars are hidden); also, the program window dimensions have been compacted into a more HD monitor-friendly aspect ratio· play sounds with the mouse by clicking on any key to simulate that key\'s press (double-click in detailed view, single-click in simple view) - switch to simple view and maximize, and you\'ve got mouse-powered \"virtual cart machine\" - option added to turn this on or off in the preferences· master volume control enhanced, with an option to allow the Soundplant master volume slider to control the program master or the overall system master - default is whatever Soundplant determines to allow the finest degree of control, which differs depending on system configuration (on most Windows 7 and Vista systems, it\'s usually the program master volume; on XP and Mac, it\'s usually the system master)· option to display time progress indicators as a countup (default) or countdown; this can be toggled by clicking on the time display in the channels meter, or in the preferences· asynchronous dialogs and file loading: dialog boxes and message windows open in a separate process, as well as sound loading, allowing for Soundplant\'s interface to continue to animate in the background, react to key hits, and play audio as seamlessly as possible even while browsing files or while Soundplant is busy loading in new sounds; an option to turn this on or off has been added to the preferences (default is on), both for debugging purposes in case you experience any problems related to this functionality, and also for running on old computers since asynchronous dialogs adds slightly to Soundplant\'s cpu and RAM usage· all compressed sound files are now automatically fully decompressed upon loading, allowing for lower-latency triggering of mp3s and all other compressed sounds as compared to the previous method of realtime decompression during playback (which came with a slight performance hit)· [Mac] improved support for running multiple simultaneous instances of Soundplant, and added a \'launch another Soundplant\' button (found in the preferences panel) that allows easy opening of multiple instances, which is otherwise a bit tricky to do manually in Mac OS [note: on Windows this can be done easily by simply double clicking the program icon to launch as many desired instances]· keymap files are automatically associated with/registered to open in Soundplant - note that on Mac, you have to move the Soundplant app into the Applications folder for this to be registered (but you can then move the app anywhere outside of the Applications folder if you want and keymaps will still be registered to it)· [Win] installer program created, does all the things a Windows installer typically does to make it easier to install Soundplant [or more complicated, depending on your opinion ;)]· code-based program registration system via a \'register\' button in the Preferences panel - this makes registration a much easier process since you no longer will have to download a separate version of the program if you purchase a registration, and also allows for the purchase of a single license to allow registration on both the Windows and Mac versions; an automated system for purchasing a registration code will be available on the Soundplant web site in the coming days, stay tuned for an announcement, in the mean time this beta allows 30 launches before reverting to unregistered mode (which now means: no loading of mp3s or any of the other newly supported file formats permitted in unregistered mode)