FlipKit64 0.9.10 beta

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FlipKit64 0.9.9 beta

TempoPAD pad lights

In Easy mode the pads now light up: loaded pads, hits in each pad's own colour, the current and queued pattern, and steps with the playhead. Pick what Easy mode's pads do in the new TempoPAD... menu in the Sequencer:

• patterns plus pads
• all 64 pads play
• steps, with a sound picker in the bottom half

On the Sampler tab the pads show the slice map (press one to hear its slice) and tap-chop progress. While recording they glow dim red, then become a scrolling level meter. On Chromebook the lights go through the MIDI bridge.

Find and load samples faster

• Search the sample browser (Ctrl+F) across a location and all its folders.
• Drop a folder or several samples on a pad to fill pads in order, or right-click a folder and choose Load folder as kit. Sort by sound type puts kicks, snares, hats and percussion each on their own row, and Ctrl+Z undoes a fill.

TempoPAD fixes

• Play, Stop and Record now work without MMC: Stop works out of the box, and you can teach any button in the TempoPAD... menu.
• New Velocity setting: As played, Lighter touch or Full level.
• Keys tracks played from the pads now sound like the pad: the same velocity layer, and One-shot pads play to the end.
• New MIDI log for troubleshooting.

Install

• Windows: unzip and run Install FlipKit64.bat (or run FlipKit64.exe).
• Chromebook: run update-flipkit64-0.9.9-chromebook.sh in the Linux terminal.

SHA-256 of FlipKit64-0.9.9-beta-win64.zip: dadbb62201bd3abff31fa18a3b29ca9cf0f77e0e175204530e3512188a35e042

FlipKit64 0.9.8 beta

Envelope editor and slice tools

Envelope (Pads tab)

• Each pad now has attack, decay, sustain and release that you shape by dragging. Drag the attack peak, the decay-to-sustain point and the release end. Drag a diamond on each part to bend its curve.
• The envelope is drawn over the pad's waveform. There are Pluck / Keys / Swell presets and Reset, and double-clicking a point puts it back.
• Hear it plays the pad and lets go, so you hear the release, with a dot following along.
• The release plays when a Hold pad is let go, a Toggle pad is stopped or a Keys note ends. One-shots play out.
• Kits from earlier versions sound the same.

Sampler

• Beat grid chop: 1 bar, 1/4, 1/8 or 1/16 at the loop's tempo. The tempo comes from the file name (like "88bpm") or is detected from the audio, and you can type it in.
• Selected slice settings:
  • Nudge its start and end by 10 ms. Markers snap to zero crossings, so there are no clicks.
  • Set its gain, fade in and fade out, reverse it, and loop it while you edit.
  • Pads you've already assigned follow your changes.
• Whole sample: Tune the slices up or down, Normalize and Trim silence. Normalize and Trim each save a copy in Recordings\Edits. Undo / Redo covers all of it.
• Chop to pattern puts the slices on the pads and writes the current pattern so they play in order, in time.
• Send to Keys track plays one slice per key from C3 up, from the piano roll or the TempoPAD's Key mode.
• A small pad map shows where the slices go. Click a pad there to start the slices from it.

Install

Unzip, run Install FlipKit64.bat, and restart your DAW. FlipKit64.exe is the standalone version. On a Chromebook, run the installer again to update.

FlipKit64 0.9.7 beta

Stop, play modes and Clear all

Fixes from testing on the TempoPAD:

• Play mode per pad:
  • One-shot plays to the end, for drum hits.
  • Hold plays only while you hold the pad. From the sequencer it lasts one step.
  • Toggle starts with one press and stops with the next, for long loops and records.
• Stop sounds button (or Esc) silences everything still playing. Stopping the transport fades out pad sounds too: Stop on screen, the TempoPAD's Stop (MMC), or LUNA.
• Clear all... clears every pad, or starts a new kit (pads, patterns and Keys tracks). It offers to save your kit first.

Install

Unzip, run Install FlipKit64.bat, and restart your DAW. FlipKit64.exe is the standalone version. On a Chromebook, run the installer again to update.

FlipKit64 0.9.6 beta

Keys tracks and a piano roll

The Sequencer now has Drums plus four Keys tracks (Keys 1, Bass, Keys 3, Keys 4). Pick one with the track buttons at the top.

Keys tracks

• Each plays one pad's sound pitched across the keyboard, keeping that pad's tuning, envelope and filter, so a chop or a one-shot becomes an instrument.
• Set the Sound (the pad) and the Root note the sample plays at.
• Mono with Glide for bass lines and slides (Bass starts that way).

Piano roll

• Click to add a note (drag right as you add it for a longer one), drag notes to move them, drag their right edge to resize, click a selected note again to remove it. Right-click deletes; click the keyboard to hear a note.
• Velocity lane underneath, and a panel for the selected note.
• Key and scale highlighting with Snap to scale; the other Keys tracks show faintly behind.

Lengths and patterns

• Each Keys track has its own length and step size (drums 1 bar, keys 2 or 4 bars...). The Length and Steps boxes follow the selected track.
• Everything switches with the pattern, and a strip under the drum grid shows every Keys track in time with the drums.

Playing from the TempoPAD

• With Pads play this track on, the pads play the Keys track on screen (Key mode gives you a keyboard layout). Arm Rec to record notes with their lengths. Leaving the Sequencer puts the pads back on drums.

Undo / redo covers Keys notes too.

Install

Unzip, run Install FlipKit64.bat, restart your DAW. FlipKit64.exe is the standalone version. On a Chromebook, run the installer again to update.

FlipKit64 0.9.5 beta

Sequencer upgrades: chance, conditions, Capture, Roll, undo

New step settings: click a step to select it and set these in the new panel on the right (or right-click a step):

• Chance: the step plays only some of the time (5–100%), so loops vary on their own.
• Plays: every loop, 1st or 2nd of every 2, 1st to 4th of every 4, only in fills, or not in fills.
• Timing: nudge a step up to half a step early or late for a laid-back or pushed feel.
• On the grid, dimmed steps play only sometimes, labels like 50% or 1:4 show the setting, and an orange edge marks an early or late step.

Fill: while it's on, "only in fills" steps play and "not in fills" steps rest.

Capture: jam on the pads while the pattern loops, press Capture, and the last loop of what you played goes into the pattern, even with Rec off.

Roll (note repeat): hold a pad and it repeats at 1/8, 1/16 or 1/32, in time with the pattern. It records too when Rec is on.

Undo / Redo: buttons, or Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z, for every sequencer change, including live recording, TempoPAD step entry, Capture and Clear.

1/4 and 1/4-triplet steps join the step sizes. Older projects load as before.

Clicking steps works a little differently: click an empty step to add it, click a lit step to select it, and click it again to remove it.

Install

Unzip, run Install FlipKit64.bat, restart your DAW. FlipKit64.exe is the standalone version.

FlipKit64 0.9.4 beta

TempoPAD groovebox controls

FlipKit64 now follows the Synido TempoPAD's own mode buttons, so you can build beats from the controller:

• Drum / Key mode: play the pads (as before).
• User mode: step entry. Each pad turns a step on or off for the pad you last hit (top-left = step 1). The Sequencer opens on that sound and plays it when you add a step.
• Easy mode: the top row of pads picks patterns 1–8 (switching at the end of the bar while playing); the other pads play.
• Play / Stop / Record: turn on the TempoPAD's MMC button. Record arms live recording, and starts playing if stopped.
• Going back to Drum mode returns you to the tab you were on. The top bar shows the mode FlipKit64 is following. Turn it off with TempoPAD modes in the Sequencer tab.

Chromebook

• The MIDI bridge now passes the TempoPAD's transport buttons and Easy mode (allow "control and reprogram your MIDI devices" when Chrome asks).
• New button tester at http://localhost:8765/monitor shows exactly what each pad and button sends.
• update-flipkit64-bridge.sh updates just the bridge without rebuilding.

Install

Unzip, run Install FlipKit64.bat, restart your DAW. FlipKit64.exe is the standalone version.

FlipKit64 0.9.3 beta

Preview player: audition drum hits fast and dig through long tracks.

Quick hits

• Click a sample to hear it, and click it again to replay it, so you can tap through a kit quickly.
• Space plays or pauses the selected sample, and Esc stops it.

Long tracks: a new player strip under the sample browser

• A waveform of the whole track. Click or drag anywhere on it to play from that spot.
• Play/Pause and Stop (Stop goes back to the start), with time shown as 1:23 / 3:48.
• Loop keeps a section going while you listen.
• Chop it sends the track straight to the Sampler.
• Pause and stop fade out quickly, so there are no clicks.

Works with local folders and network locations. No changes to sound, kits or saved projects.

Install (Windows): download FlipKit64-0.9.3-beta-win64.zip below, unzip it and run Install FlipKit64.bat (it replaces older versions).
Chromebook: run bash install-flipkit64-chromebook.sh again to update.

Free / pay what you want: https://ko-fi.com/s/63780df43b

FlipKit64 0.9.2 beta

Network locations: browse your PC's shared folders right inside FlipKit64.

• New in the Samples dropdown: Add a network location... Enter the PC (name or IP address), the shared folder and your Windows login once, and it's remembered.
• Click a sample to hear it, drag it onto a pad or the Sampler, or double-click to load it.
• Each sample downloads once and is cached (marked with a small cyan dot), so it loads instantly afterwards, even offline. If the cache is cleared, kits fetch their samples again automatically.
• Clear messages for wrong passwords, wrong folder names or an unreachable PC, with Retry and Edit buttons.
• Network locations are built for Linux and Chromebooks (and the future Android version). On Windows, keep using Add a folder... with a path like \\PC-NAME\Music.

Chromebook: FlipKit64 now has a Chromebook installer, chromebook/install-flipkit64-chromebook.sh. See the README for details. On a Chromebook, enter your PC's IP address rather than its name.

No changes to sound, kits or saved projects.

Install (Windows): download FlipKit64-0.9.2-beta-win64.zip below, unzip it and run Install FlipKit64.bat (it replaces older versions).

Free / pay what you want: https://ko-fi.com/s/63780df43b

FlipKit64 0.9.1 beta

New look, inspired by the Synido TempoPAD:

• Purple, orange and white theme.
• Pads now use the TempoPAD's drum-mode zone colours: cyan (notes 36-51), purple (52-67), yellow (68-83) and blue (84-99). Loaded pads light up in their zone colour; empty pads keep a faint tint so the four zones stay visible.
• The sequencer rows use the same zone colours.

No changes to sound, kits or saved projects.

Install: download FlipKit64-0.9.1-beta-win64.zip below, unzip it and run Install FlipKit64.bat (it replaces 0.9).

Free / pay what you want: https://ko-fi.com/s/63780df43b