Homegrown Sounds Kit Creator v0.992 WiN MacOSX

Transform your Sample collection into Sample kits for your sampler!
Kit Creator is a program for Windows/Mac that automatically generates Sample Kits of 16 samples for MPC, Ableton Live, Speedrum, TAL-Drum and the free Sitala. You can drag & drop up to 16 Directories that contain samples and assign which Pads they can be used for. If a pad has more than one folder assigned one will be randomly selected. As well as randomizing samples, paramters can also be randomized with definable min/max ranges. currently Volume, Pan and Release Time are supported.

FEATURES

- SOURCE – Up to 16 recursively scanned Folders can be added via drag & drop and each assigned to any Pads.

- TEMPLATES – Add as many existing presets to use as templates for each format as you want. This allows creating complaex presets as a base with effect assignments etc and then the samples and only the samples/selected paramters Kit Creator supports will be changed. You can use a single template, cycle through all, or use a random Template.

- FOLDER ASSIGN – Folders are added via Drag & Drop and scanned recursivley. There are 2 different views for assigning Folders to Pads, the PADS panel allows clicking a pad and selectiong the folders, whereas the FOLDERS panel shows a Matrix for seeing all assignments at once.

- PARAMETERS – This panel allows assigning minum and maximum values for the random values per pad.

- PRESETS – Saving the total state of Kit Creator to a preset is supported, so you can recall different profiles.

- THEMING – The theming system supports 24 definable colours which can be saved as a theme, a few themes are included.

- PROCESSING – This panel is where the export settings are located and the preset creation takes place.

- CREATE – Creates new presets based on the selected settings to all selected formats.

- EDIT – Edits existing presets for randomizing the selected parameters.

- RANDOM NAME GENERATOR – A database of 30,000 words can be used to generate random names which can produce some amusing names. A 3 digit numeric name can also used in conjuction or instead.

- REQUIREMENTS – 64-bit Windows or 64-bit Apple M1/Intel.

PADS PANEL
You can drop folders here, click on a Pad and tick the folders you want assigned to it. Hovering over a Folder will highlight all pads it is assigned to.

PARAMS PANEL
You can select the minimum and maximum ranges for the parameters on this page that will be used by the randomizer when creating presets.

PROCESSING PANEL
When you've added folders and assigned them, you decide which formats you want to export for and click Start and Kit creator will create the presets.

► SUPPORTED FORMATS

Akai MPC
Support for all Modern MPCs (Live, ONE, Keys & X) as well as Beats and MPC Software.

Ableton Live Drum Rack
Exports directly to the Ableton User folder so the Presets (and optionally samples) are instantly browsable.

Apisonic Labs Speedrum
An affordable and full featured plug-in.

TAL-Drum
TAL's take on the Pad based sampler is as good as you would expect.

Decomposer Sitala
Completely Free Pad based Sampler, which means anyone can make use of Kit creator if they don't own one of the others.



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