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Soundplant for Windows

  • Trial version

  • In English
  • V 50.7.5
  • 2.9

    (35)
  • Security Status

Manage samples easily with Soundplant

Soundplant is an audio sampling utility that lets you use your regular computer keyboard as a sampling tool instead of requiring specialized equipment. Soundplant's low latency makes it ideal for use as a live performance sampler, but it also has a range of different output tools for audio recording. It can even receive key input while hidden, letting you display something else on your screen while playing audio through Soundplant.

Play sound files with the computer keyboard

Soundplant is a digital audio performance program that 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.

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, and its ultra-optimized use of the computer keyboard with lowest-possible latency requiring no extra hardware or MIDI.

PROS

  • Robust suite of customization options
  • Plays a wide range of different audio files

CONS

  • Unique interface takes some getting used to
  • Toggling keys for repeat play could be simpler

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Soundplant for PC

  • Trial version

  • In English
  • V 50.7.5
  • 2.9

    (35)
  • Security Status


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