Published 25/1/07
Revolutionary sample editor released at NAMM
I've been getting excited about this particular piece of EXS24 sample editing software ever since I saw an early beta version well over a year ago. But now it is finally available and at a very attractive price of 200 Euros.
Keymap goes well beyond what I've seen any other sample editor do successfully, so as well as supporting all EXS24 sample formats plus WAV, AIFF, MP3 and AAC, it offers some amazing autolooping features as well as the ability to automatically autosplit and keymap by using pitch-detection to figure out what notes the original samples are playing. There's harmonic resynthesis with variable pitch, formant, time and amplitude, but all this is driven from a relatively intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Keymap's hybrid virtual memory system means that large samples don't have to be stored in RAM before you start work, and there's even multichannel support for up to eight channels. If you're involved in sample design for the EXS24, Keymap is well worth the ticket price for its automapping and autolooping facilities alone. I've even seen it find perfect-sounding loop points in an LFO-modulated waveform, but its resynthesis capabilities also mean you can lengthen notes, change vibrato rates and even loop sounds that would normally decay too fast to be looped effectively.
The associated Polyphonation feature means resynthesised sounds can be created over a two-octave range, where all notes play for exactly the same length of time so you can play sung phrases over a wide range of pitches without the speech changing speed.
There's so much more to Keymap than I have space to go into here but if you're an EXS24 user and need to create or edit your own samples, you need to check out Keymap right away. At the moment the program is available directly from Redmatica but it is their intention to appoint a UK distributor as soon as is practical. Paul White
www.redmatica.com
I've been getting excited about this particular piece of EXS24 sample editing software ever since I saw an early beta version well over a year ago. But now it is finally available and at a very attractive price of 200 Euros. Keymap goes well beyond what I've seen any other sample editor do successfully, so as well as supporting all EXS24 sample formats plus WAV, AIFF, MP3 and AAC, it offers some amazing autolooping features as well as the ability to automatically autosplit and keymap by using pitch-detection to figure out what notes the original samples are playing. There's harmonic resynthesis with variable pitch, formant, time and amplitude, but all this is driven from a relatively intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Keymap's hybrid virtual memory system means that large samples don't have to be stored in RAM before you start work, and there's even multichannel support for up to eight channels. If you're involved in sample design for the EXS24, Keymap is well worth the ticket price for its automapping and autolooping facilities alone. I've even seen it find perfect-sounding loop points in an LFO-modulated waveform, but its resynthesis capabilities also mean you can lengthen notes, change vibrato rates and even loop sounds that would normally decay too fast to be looped effectively.
The associated Polyphonation feature means resynthesised sounds can be created over a two-octave range, where all notes play for exactly the same length of time so you can play sung phrases over a wide range of pitches without the speech changing speed.
There's so much more to Keymap than I have space to go into here but if you're an EXS24 user and need to create or edit your own samples, you need to check out Keymap right away. At the moment the program is available directly from Redmatica but it is their intention to appoint a UK distributor as soon as is practical. Paul White
www.redmatica.com
