Libre Arts: Elektroid 3.3 released

From Libre Arts: link to the original post

David García Goñi released a new version of Elektroid, a sample and MIDI device manager for Elektron, Arturia, Eventide, Moog, and Novation devices.

Device support

Elektroid 3.3 adds support for several devices:

• KORG Volca Sample;
• Korg Volca Sample 2;
• KORG padKONTROL.

It also brings support for Elektron Digitakt (OG) track filesystem with optional timestreching in the track-loop filesystem and Digitakt II sample-stereo filesystem.

The Volca Sample support is possible thanks to general non-MIDI device support, which means more (especially old) devices can be supported in the future.

Tags for samples

You can now tag samples, the data will be written into the IKEY data chunk in WAV files:

The system is configurable, you can tweak the default list of tags in the Preferences dialog:

Audio recording, editing, and playback

Elektroid now tries to estimate tempo based on beats and sample length and displays it in the toolbar below the waveform. The waveform visualization has been improved and is now faster, there’s also a playback cursor.

The recording dialog now displays stereo monitoring:

Two new tools are available for editing samples: one splits stereo channels into separate monophonic audio files, the other one normalizes audio. Simply right-click on the waveform and go to the Tools submenu.

Other changes

Here are other changes in this release:

• Use floating point for audio (16-bit integer still user configurable)
• Add support for tempo (acid chunk) with “tempo:x” and “note:x” search options (using locales)
• Add support for MIDI note fraction (smpl chunk)
• The autosampler now generates SFZ files
• Use cross-zero detection when selecting and editing loop points (use while pressing shift to skip cross-zero detection)
• Replace hyphen with colon in the CLI command (still backwards compatible)