Soundplant

Soundplant turns your computer keyboard (yes, your QWERTY keyboard) into a versatile, low latency, multitrack sample-triggering device and playable musical instrument, allowing the assignment of sound files of any format and size onto virtually all keyboard keys, giving you hours of instantly-playing random access audio at your fingertips with no extra hardware needed.

Use Soundplant as a performance, presentation, or installation tool, as a drum pad, to mix together tracks in realtime, as an educational aid, to trigger sound effects or background tracks during a show, to create music or loops, to sketch sound designs, or to 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, 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-and-drop, point-and-click 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.

Features:

• 72 keyboard keys can be used to trigger sounds, all with very low latency
• drag and drop sound files onto keyboard keys for quick and easy key assignment
• plays virtually all sound file formats in existence, including .wav, .aif, .mp3, .mp4, .m4a, .aac, .flac, .wma, .alac, .wv, .ogg, .snd, .ape, and many many more, even audio from video files like .wmv, .mov, .avi, .divx, .mpg, .flv, .3gp, etc.
• capable of playing 256 sounds simultaneously, allowing for dense soundscapes and complex virtual instruments

• 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
• Output recording quality improved to 32-bit
• 'Fade out all sounds' function via Ctrl+Shift+Backspace
• Improved support for HiDPI/retina displays
• 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
• 'View mode' setting persists after quitting
• Improved stereo waveform display showing separate left (top) and right (bottom) channel audio data
• 'Animated key glow'➔'on unless looping' option added in Preferences
• 'Key appearance'➔'3d' or 'flat' settings added in Preferences
• 'Remove registration' function added to unregister an installed copy of Soundplant
• Reset Preferences by holding ctrl+alt+shift at program startup (useful as a failsafe)
• .keymaps store last selected key
• Bug fix: Mac: in certain situations Soundplant crashed when plugging the headphone jack or waking the computer from sleep
• Bug fix: Mac: problems when running as a non-admin user
• Bug fix: certain keys not triggering on European and Japanese keyboards
• Bug fix: audio output device selection failed on some CJK language systems
• Many other minor bug fixes
• Dropped Windows XP support