Wlodzimierz Grabowski has released version 3.5.7 of Extreme Sample Converter, a multifunctional audio program, browser, player, and program editor with advanced conversion between different sample formats.
New in Extreme Sample Converter 3.5.7
- Midi Input button in Hardware Converter panel and it allows to play sounds from another midi keyboard.
- Bank Select MSB, Bank Select LSB, Program Change knobs to set patch in external midi synthesizer. These three midi messages are sent after releasing a mouse key.
- Page Up/Page Down allows to edit zone velocity point.
- Arrow Keys, Space allows to move between zone and Space to trigger selected zone.
- Open/Save Zones it is possible to save all zone map and settings.
- Enhanced Level Meters showing peak level of recently triggered note.
- Velocity info to the selected zone or pressed mouse at specified point on the zone map.
- Gain Level.
- VSTi Converter Real-Time Mode. It allows to record samples from virtualized hardware.
- New audio processing functions: Normalize, Fade In, Fade Out on selected sample or audio selection.
- MIDI Latency instead of previous Sample Start Point option.
- 32bit resolution in wave view. Bigger range of [-]/[+] zoom buttons also added.
- Several bug fixes.
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Wlodzimierz Grabowski has released version 3.5.6 of Extreme Sample Converter, a multifunctional audio program, browser, player, and program editor with advanced conversion between different sample formats.
Changes in Extreme Sample Converter v3.5.6
- Added Level meters added to VSTi/Hardware Converter.
- Added Manual Start, Stop in Hardware Converter.
- Fix: Zoom to All didn’t work in wave view, Audio Grid option added.
- Fix: VST plugins were not added to the plugin’s list when program was first runned in Hardware Converter mode.
- Changed: Method of note audition on zone map in VSTi/Hardware Converter.
Extreme Sample Converter 4.0 Pro (64-bit) for Windows Vista and MAC OS X is still under development. The upgrade from 3.x to 4.0 Pro for Windows will be free.
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Wlodzimierz Grabowski has released version 3.4 of Extreme Sample Converter, a multifunctional audio program, browser, player, and program editor with advanced conversion between different sample formats.
Changes in v3.4
- New: ‘Select All’, ‘Deselect All’, ‘Create New’ commands in VSTiConverter’s context menu.
- New: Pause and Cancel buttons in VSTi converter to pause or stop sampling process.
- New: showing of full sample paths in ‘Edit Sample Parameters’ dialog.
- New: conversion option to turn on/off the parent exb folder creation when EmulatorX export.
- New: AutoPlay switch on/off to Sample context menu.
- New: Halion looping modes are recognized correctly and converted to others.
- New: Dimension Viewer to view crossfades, controllers and dimensions in different formats.
- New: Key and Velocity crossfades are shown on the sample map.
- New: Remaining time in the title of VSTi Converter dialog is shown during sampling.
- New: Three modes of Kontakt conversion (zone to group, layer to group, repeated zones to group).
- New: Giga Mod-Wheel import.
- Several bug fixes.
Extreme Sample Converter is available for Windows PC for 60.00 EUR.
Visit the Extreme Sample Converter website for more information and a link to download a demo of Extreme Sample Converter.
Wlodzimierz Grabowski has released version 3.3.1 of Extreme Sample Converter, the multifunctional audio program, browser, player, and program editor with advanced conversion between different sample formats.
Updated since v3.2
- Added: 24-bit Audio Playback. Supports MME Multimedia Extensions to playback audio files with high bit resolutions.
- Added: Creamware *.tds file import.
- Added: Halion -> Kontakt alternate conversions support.
- Added: Desktop and My Documents folder to the Explorer pane for quick access.
- Added: Zoom options and Zoom buttons into sample view and sample menu.
- Added: Option to set up buffer size for MME driver.
- Improved: quicker one click use in Explorer pane.
- Improved: conversion to EmulatorX format creates its parent folder exb now.
- Improved: Halion 3 to Halion 2 conversion, copies all parameters from source to destination.
- Improved: DirectSound also 24-bit now and MME support, removed crackles during stopping audio driver ex. RME sound card driver.
- Changed: Menu names of Source and Destination have been sorted in alphabetical order.
- Changed: sample menu items and tool menu items have been rearranged.
- Lots of bugfixes.
Visit the Extreme Sample Converter website for more information and a link to download a demo of Extreme Sample Converter.
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Wlodzimierz Grabowski has released version 3.2 of Extreme Sample Converter, the multifunctional audio program, browser, player, and program editor with advanced conversion between different sample formats.
New in ESC v3.2
- Renoise: import and export added.
- FLAC: import and export of lossless audio compression added.
- Dash Signature: import and export added.
- Tools: New redesigned trimming functions.
- Lots of bugfixes.
Extreme Sample Converter is available for Windows PC and costs 69.90 EUR.
Visit the Extreme Sample Converter website for more information and a link to download a demo of Extreme Sample Converter.
