Soundplant versions

Turn your keyboard into a musical instrument
Jul 18, 2023
Jul 18, 2017
Review
Jan 28, 2016
Editorial review
rating
Nov 8, 2014
Review
Nov 21, 2014
Feb 26, 2014
Jul 5, 2010

What's new

v43.0 [Jan 28, 2016]
- 32-bit floating point internal sound mixing adjustable to up to 96 kHz for highest possible sound output quality, making this the best sounding Soundplant ever.
- 256 sounds can be played simultaneously, with up to 12 channels of playback progress displayed in detailed view mode.
- Sound output device selection.
- Reverb, lowpass, resonance, and lfo realtime effects.
- Direct internal recording of Soundplant's output.
- Completely overhauled sound mixing engine now uses the great and lightweight FluidSynth, a solid and battle-tested open source sound engine enabling many of the above improvements.
- 'Hold down' mode allows precise control over key releases.
- Redesigned interface with more room for sound names, an enlarged waveform display, and vector graphics for better window stretching.
- Key labels text size setting.
- Customizable key label text.
- 'Buffer size', 'interface refresh rate', and 'key glow animation' settings for performance tuning.
- 'Background key input startup state' setting.
- 'Foreground window on sound trigger' setting.
- Added an 'only on sound trigger' option to the 'select key on key press' setting.
- Added a 'locate file…' option to the alert that appears when loading a keymap and the sound file can't be found in its original location, and improved. automatic searching for sound files when loading keymaps.
- 'Reload sound from disk' button.
- Improved master volume control offering up to 200% processed amplification.
- Finer individual key pan and volume control and better, smoother fades.
- Smoother realtime pitch shift.
- Onscreen keyboard layout changed to match the now more common layout with smaller return key and backslash on the row above it.
- RAM or disk loading option for each key no longer available, this is now handled automatically to take advantage of modern system capabilities with more RAM.
- Fade in and out times can be set to 0 to more easily have a key that only fades in or only fades out.
- 64-bit optimizations have been included for systems which support it, speeding up sound loading especially for compressed sounds.
- Improved support for surround sound files containing greater than 2 channels (Soundplant can now play them, but only as mixed down to 2 channels).
- Increased the 'recent keymaps' dropdown list size to 25 keymaps.

v42.1 [Nov 8, 2014]
- 32-bit floating point internal sound mixing adjustable to up to 96 kHz for highest possible sound output quality, making this the best sounding Soundplant ever.
- 256 sounds can be played simultaneously, with up to 12 channels of playback progress displayed in detailed view mode.
- Sound output device selection.
- Reverb, lowpass, resonance, and lfo realtime effects.
- Direct internal recording of Soundplant's output.
- Completely overhauled sound mixing engine now uses the great and lightweight FluidSynth, a solid and battle-tested open source sound engine enabling many of the above improvements.
- 'Hold down' mode allows precise control over key releases.
- Redesigned interface with more room for sound names, an enlarged waveform display, and vector graphics for better window stretching.
- Key labels text size setting.
- Customizable key label text.
- 'Buffer size', 'interface refresh rate', and 'key glow animation' settings for performance tuning.
- 'Background key input startup state' setting.
- 'Foreground window on sound trigger' setting.
- Added an 'only on sound trigger' option to the 'select key on key press' setting.
- Added a 'locate file…' option to the alert that appears when loading a keymap and the sound file can't be found in its original location, and improved. automatic searching for sound files when loading keymaps.
- 'Reload sound from disk' button.
- Improved master volume control offering up to 200% processed amplification.
- Finer individual key pan and volume control and better, smoother fades.
- Smoother realtime pitch shift.
- Onscreen keyboard layout changed to match the now more common layout with smaller return key and backslash on the row above it.
- RAM or disk loading option for each key no longer available, this is now handled automatically to take advantage of modern system capabilities with more RAM.
- Fade in and out times can be set to 0 to more easily have a key that only fades in or only fades out.
- 64-bit optimizations have been included for systems which support it, speeding up sound loading especially for compressed sounds.
- Improved support for surround sound files containing greater than 2 channels (Soundplant can now play them, but only as mixed down to 2 channels).
- Increased the 'recent keymaps' dropdown list size to 25 keymaps.

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