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Kit Creator is now officially out of beta!

• Quick Start Guide to creating presets added to the manual.
• When on the conversion screen it is now necessary to select the type of preset you are going to convert. Previously this was done automatically based on what was found, although in the case of different formats being found, it would always select the first found. Now recursion is added, it has made it more essential that this be pre-selected by the user.
• Ableton Live Import Function has been rewritten for the ground up.
• Optional Additional sample search path has been added for Ableton Live imports. Search will look in the current directory/sub directories first, then in the Ableton User Sample library, and if the sample is not found it will then look in the provided additional directory & its sub directories.
• Option to convert Multi-Sample based .adg files (Simpler). Usually this would not be very useful because they tend to be chromatically mapped sample instruments, but some old presets do use this method to map drum samples & so they can now be converted.
• Recursive search option available when selecting a folder of presets to convert, this means it will search sub folders although all outputs will be saved to the same selected output directory. This option is enabled by default & is very useful when converting something like the samples from Mars sets which have the samples in a top level folder. By choosing the parent folder, all presets will be found as well as the samples.
• Various Tweaks.

v0.999

• Lots of visual UI improvements.
• Theme Editor now opens up in a separate window to make life easier.
• Tooltip now uses the main Information display instead of a popup.
• Processing Page Redesigned.
• Fixed some spelling errors.
• Fixed Recursive Button was linked to Pad 1 assign.
• Added options to set SFZ to no loop mode.
• Reworked AKAI MPC import to account for legacy tags & ignoring files that use binary encryption.
• Minor fixes/enhancements

v0.998

• Choke/Mute groups are now supported for Speedrum, MPC, Ableton Drum Rack, Impact XT & TAL-Drum. 8 drum groups are supported which is the maximum Speedrum allows. TAL-Drum works differently as it has pre assigned voice groups, the groups are converted to this format but there is currently no conversion from TAL-Drum to choke group, whereas all other formats that use the standard method can be imported (with a maximum of 8 groups).
• MPC Previews are now generated, it is a simple chain of the samples in Ogg Vorbis format.
• Kit Creator now uses a User Words list which is stored in the ‘User’ Folder. If it doesn’t exist the default wordlist will be copied there. This means you can edit it without fear it will be replaced by program updates.
• Folder Panel now only shows the Folder name instead of the full path, the full path is still shown at the top when hovering and can be copied or opened from the right click menu.
• Added per folder option for whether it should scan recursively (scan sub folders).
• Added per Folder option for reversing the Samples in Formats that support it. Probability can also be used to decide based on chosen percentage.
• Added per Folder option for semitone tune offset for exports that support it. This can either be a fixed value per folder or one of a set of random modes for setting random semitone offsets.
• Added per Folder option for whether One Shot Mode should be used, this plays the entire sample & therefore Release will no longer do anything.
• Preset Estimates now reflect the number of Pads used & adjust accordingly.
• Wordlist is now alphabetically sorted & a few words have been removed.
• Fixed: a multiplier was making the volume quieter than it should have been when generating presets.
• Fixed Clear Pads didn’t always work & on rare occasions all Pads & folders would be removed.
• Fixed occasional crash if a pad doesn’t have folders assigned.
• Fixed issue with non existent Layers when converting from Speedrum.

0.997

• Kits of up to 128 samples can now be created, they use the 16 Pad template for each set of 16 as a basis for samples, pan, volume & release, basically treated as multiple presets in one. With formats that support less Pads than the selected amount, multiple Kits will be saved with A, B, C, D etc appended to the name.
• Preset Conversion now supports up to 128 single layer pads, with formats which have a smaller maximum Pad count multiple files will be created with A, B, C, D etc appended to the filename.
• Edit has also been updated but not fully tested yet. Please report any issues.
• KNOWN ISSUE – With Ableton, it’s a tricky format to work with due to only using having data for pads which have a sample assigned. At the moment conversion may not work correctly if there any gaps in the pads, ie; Kit Creator currently expects a sample assigned to consecutive pads. A conversion ‘from’ may also map samples to different pads if the 1^st pad isn’t set to C1. Improving this is on the todo list.
• Ableton Live code has been rewritten so that it now only needs a single Assigned pad in a template to use as a reference. If multiple layers are not found then this will be used as a basis. This format is tricky to deal with as it only creates instrument layers when they are assigned a sample. This new method allows using anything between a complex template preset or one with a simple single Pad layer.
• Speedrum Code has been switched into dealing with xml rather than ValueTree which brings it inline with all other formats.
• Changed Ableton Backup folders to more instructional ‘Copy to’ folder names.
• Fixed Divide by Zero error on.
• Numerous changes & improvements that wouldn’t mean anything to anyone.
• Fixed double percentage sign on TX16Wx exports.

0.996:

• Octatrack now has a menu to select the bit depth & mono/stereo WAV export options which includes ‘AUTO’ for grabbing the settings from the first Kit WAV. If the bit depth is less than 16, 16 will be used or if higher than 24, 24 will be used to maintain compatibility with the OT.
• Added estimated Counts to the Pads (on the Pads Panel) showing unique WAV amounts with the aim of helping to balance WAV usage.
• Overhauled the Sitala Factors Release code, the Release parameter is actually a Macro for 3 settings. For the purposes of Kit Creator it needs to behave like a release & so has been rescaled appropriately.
• Added more choices to the increase/decrease volume functions.
• Added ‘NO REPEAT’ Mode which stops creating as soon as one of the folders have been used completely.
• Improved the Speedrum Code.
• Tweaked the TAL-Drum Factors.
• Global Volume Percentage added to Factors.
• Factors added for SFZ, TX16Wx, Tal-Sampler & SampleOne.
• Factor text edit fields now respond to the return Key & give away focus.
• Sample Layers are now manually created for SpeedDrum
• Added ‘Assign All Sequentially’ which assigns each folder slot to the corresponding numbered pad. There is also a reversed version & a randomized version.
• Export now aborted if no folders are assigned to pads.
• Fixed: All Mode now creates the correct number of presets when not all 16 folder slots are used or a folder is unassigned.
• Fixed: STOP now works in Utilities Mode.
• Fixed: Parameter Enable settings are now ignored in convert & edit mode.
• Fixed: SFZ now using relative paths correctly
• Fixed: first Octatrack export wasn’t written if the folder didn’t exist.
• Fixed: Edit will now only operate on the first found type in a mixed preset folder.
• Fixed: Pads Panel now updates folder assignments on entering.
• Fixed: Right Click clear all assignments only worked the first time in the Apps lifetime.
• Fixed a crash converting to Octatrack when the export destination directory doesn’t exist.

v0.995

• Advanced Mode has been removed, the new mode is much simpler to understand & makes all of the Advanced options unnecessary. As a result of removing Advanced Mode the backend is now also more refined & much less prone to potential errors creeping in.
• The sub directory option is no longer an option & now standard behaviour.
• Export support for Presonus Sample One.
• Export support for TX16Wx has been added.
• Import/Export support for Elektron Octatrack Sample Chains has been added. Samples are always re-sampled to 44.1 khz which is the samplerate of the Octatrack, the samples will be exported in 16-bit however 24-bit is an option. By default the export will be stereo but Mono is available. Sample Chains are a WAV and a corresponding ‘ot’ file which contains the split information. Sample chains can also be imported to convert to any other format.
• Export for CUE Marker based WAVs has been added.
• TAL-Sampler is now a distinct Export type & no longer requires exporting TAL-Drum at the same time.
• All formats that can use relative paths to samples are now stored in a sub folder Called ‘Multi-Format’ which also contains a ‘Samples’ sub folder which they link to. This entire folder is therefore portable.
• Fixed: converting from TAL-Drum didn’t get the correct sample length.
• Fixed: Utilities Pan menu out of sync with the options.
• Fixed: Speedrum exports now set to ‘Note On’ mode & enables the volume envelope.
• Lots of other improvements.

v1.1.5

• Fixed loop end marker errors in re-sampled exports.

v1.1.4

• Export types would only export if original was also selected, now you can just select any you want.

v1.1.3

• If Midi Note isn’t found in the header or filename, it will now look to the very end of the filename to see if there is note information ie; ‘C3’ or ‘Gb2’
• The download is also Notarized which means it’s been scanned & certified to be safe by Apple.

This update sees various fixes and some improvements to the Single Cycle & Phase alignment.

• Added Frequency/Midi Note detection. Use with caution as it will not detect all material correctly, it’s still a preferable option to add midi note information to the file header or name when they were created.
• Reworked & Improved the phase align code.
• FIXED: crash when using Phase Align and files that have no Midi Note assignment.
• FIXED: fade % is now visible at startup.
• Removed single cycle scan range, now just uses the single cycle sample size instead