Use Soundplant as a performance, presentation, or installation tool, as a drum pad, as an educational aid, to mix together tracks in realtime, trigger sound effects or background tracks during a show, create music or loops, sketch sound designs, make beats, and give new life to old sounds - all via an input device you've been practicing on for as long as you've been typing. Because it's a standalone software sampler that uses your own samples to create custom soundboards, Soundplant is an infinitely flexible electronic instrument limited only by the variety of sounds that you feed it. An easy to use interface provides drag & drop configuration of each key, including options which control the way each sound is triggered along with several lightweight non-destructive realtime effects. Playing sounds are displayed with a progress bar and track time, and you can even trigger sounds with Soundplant hidden while using any other program.
Soundplant is not a synthesizer, plugin, editor, or sequencer, but it is way more than a media player. Soundplant was designed to do one thing and do it well: to trigger sounds from the computer keyboard with maximum speed, efficiency, and ease of use. Users love its rock-solid stability for live event use, its simple one sound per one key metaphor which eliminates the usage complications of many other software samplers, its versatility for handling sounds of all types from short effects to full length songs to hours-long mixes, and its ultra-optimized use of the computer keyboard with lowest-possible latency.
What is new in this release:
Version 47.1:
- waveform zooming for more accurate setting of sound start and end points in a detailed fullscreen view
- new channel priority setting "autofade" fades out a sound on the next sound trigger, making crossfades easier; "autokill" replaces "low" channel priority setting in previous versions
- overhauled caching system speeds up loading of most frequently used sounds and keymaps significantly, with Preferences settings for cache location and size
- playlist refinements, including:
- new "single key step through" mode for using one key to advance a playlist in a predefined or random order with a pause at the end of each track
- unassigned keys can now trigger playlists
- keys with playlists get an icon, which can be clicked to jump into playlist-editing mode
- all playlist changes are now applied in realtime
- "only trigger playlists" setting added to "background key input" Preferences
- "use space key as global pause/unpause" option added to Preferences
- improved memory management and other speed and efficiency improvements
- "background key input" emergency off key combo changed to ctrl+alt+shift+tilde to avoid conflicting with more common key combos in other programs, and now also stops all sounds
- bug fixes
- ends support for Windows Vista
What is new in version 45:
- playlist queuing, supporting presaved playlist sequences triggered by a single key, or realtime "wait-in-line" chaining of queues via multiple key presses, or starting multiple synced sounds with a single key
- ASIO support on Windows for lower latency and outputting to ASIO-only devices
- output recording quality improved to 32-bit
- 'fade out all sounds' function via Ctrl+Shift+Backspace
- faster sound file loading, improved by as much as 50%, especially for long sounds
- decreased cpu usage & RAM footprint and other optimizations & efficiency improvements
- 6 additional key color choices & a new cleaner look for onscreen keys; support for custom RGB key colors in manually edited .keymaps
- universal support for secondary output channels on multichannel devices
- contextual interactive help
- animated indication of sounds fading in & out in Channels Meter
- many other minor bug fixes
What is new in version 43:
Version 43 adds multiple keys selection for simultaneous realtime configuring; playback activity logging for documenting sessions; 'only trigger sounds with key combo' settings for filtering background key input using Ctrl/Alt; seek function; many internal optimizations including cpu usage reduction; many bug fixes.
What is new in version 42:
Version 42 adds 96 kHz output and 32-bit floating point internal mixing for highest possible sound quality; 256 channel polyphony for dense soundscapes and complex virtual instruments; audio output device selection; direct recording of Soundplant's output; realtime reverb, bandpass, and other effects.
Limitations:
Some features disabled after 25 uses
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