Now in its 18th year, the venerable $50 program has found wide use in studios, theaters, clubs, stadiums, and classrooms, its combination of ease and power earning adoption by professional audio engineers, sound designers, DJs, and producers as well as amateur podcasters, comedians, pastors, teachers, artists, and gamers. Soundplant intuitively turns an input device you’ve been practicing on for as long as you’ve been typing into a versatile multitrack playback tool. Also new in v.45 are a global ‘fade out all’ function, recording quality improved to 32-bit, reduced CPU usage, faster sound loading, contextual help, and many other improvements and bug fixes. ASIO support on Windows brings even lower latency, higher sound quality, and expanded output device support. Version 45’s new ‘multi queue’ feature adds flexible playlist support, allowing several unique capabilities including triggering dozens of sounds at once from a single key, playing multiple playlists simultaneously, and realtime chaining of queues via key press to build playlists on the fly. Soundplant turns the standard QWERTY keyboard into a playable instrument with ultra low latency, allowing the instant playback of any format sound files on 72 keyboard keys with no need for extra hardware. The unregistered version is free for non-commercial use and is limited to 8- and 16-bit wav and aif files it includes a 25-launch trial of the registered features.Independent developer Marcel Blum has released Soundplant 45 for Windows and Mac, a major update adding playlist queuing, ASIO support, and other optimizations to the computer keyboard sound triggering program. The registered version plays all sound file formats including wav, aif, mp3, mp4, m4a, flac, wma, alac, wv, ogg, even audio from video files like wmv, mov, avi, flv, and more. Users love its rock-solid stability for live events, its simple 1 sound per 1 key metaphor which eliminates the complications of other software samplers, and its ultra-optimized use of the computer keyboard with lowest-possible latency requiring no external devices or MIDI. Soundplant, now in its 11th year and winner of multiple awards, was designed to do one thing and do it well: to trigger sound files from the computer keyboard with maximum speed, efficiency, and ease of use. All playing sounds are displayed with a progress bar and track time, and you can turn on 'background key detection' to trigger sounds while using any other software with Soundplant hidden. A simple graphic interface provides for drag-and-drop configuration of each key and several options which control the way each sound is triggered, with non-destructive pitch, offsets, looping, volume, fading, and panning. Because it is a standalone 'software sampler' that uses your own sounds, Soundplant is an infinitely flexible electronic instrument limited only by the variety of sounds that you feed it. Use it as a performance, presentation, or sound design tool, as a drum pad, to mix together tracks in realtime, to create music or loops, or to trigger sound effects or background tracks during a show. It can assign sound files of unlimited size and any format onto all keyboard keys, giving you hours of instantly-playing audio at your fingertips with no extra hardware needed. Soundplant is a digital audio performance program that turns your computer keyboard (yes, your QWERTY keyboard) into a versatile, low latency sample-triggering device and playable instrument.
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