Poise

Category Audio Production / Virtual Instruments
Version 1.1.50.77
Format VST
Compatibility PoiseWindows
License Commercial Software
Price $49  /  46€
Rating
Updated On Jan 14, 2015
Total Downloads 515
PC Downloads 515

MPC Style VST Drum Sampler

Direct, straightforward, no frills and no bloat! Poise makes working with drum samples quick and effortless, allowing you to focus on creating music.

Poise features 16 drum pads, which can each use 8 samples. Sample layers have parameters for pitch, volume and balance, as well as amplitude and pitch envelopes. There are several sample switching types including random, velocity and round-robin.

A browser allows samples to be previewed and loaded via drag and drop. (Drag and drop works from several sources including windows explorer and some host applications.) Samples can also be copied/moved from pad to pad with drag and drop.

Features:
- 16 Drum Pads.
- 8 Samples per Drum Pad.
- Integrated sample browser with preview.
- Drag and Drop sample loading.
- Loads 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit WAV,...
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Direct, straightforward, no frills and no bloat! Poise makes working with drum samples quick and effortless, allowing you to focus on creating music.

Poise features 16 drum pads, which can each use 8 samples. Sample layers have parameters for pitch, volume and balance, as well as amplitude and pitch envelopes. There are several sample switching types including random, velocity and round-robin.

A browser allows samples to be previewed and loaded via drag and drop. (Drag and drop works from several sources including windows explorer and some host applications.) Samples can also be copied/moved from pad to pad with drag and drop.

Features:
- 16 Drum Pads.
- 8 Samples per Drum Pad.
- Integrated sample browser with preview.
- Drag and Drop sample loading.
- Loads 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit WAV, AIF and SND files.
- Multiple Sample switching modes: Round-robin, random, layered and velocity.
- Amplitude and pitch envelopes for samples.
- Inbuilt effects include distortion, lowpass filter, highpass filter and ring modulation.
- Humanisation.
- 2 - 16 stereo outputs.
- Edit multiple pads simultaneously.

Included Sample Content:
Poise comes with an exclusive set of 30 drum kits created by TeamDNR.
The drum kits have been designed to provide a variety of bread and butter \'go to\' drum sounds. Also included is 200 individual cells which contain effect and modulation configurations. This allows individual drum hits to be easily mixed and matched for custom drum kit creation.
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Windows XP / Vista / 7 VST 2.4 compatible host application
Poise Poise v 1.1.50.77 Jan 14, 2015 Windows
New: Poise now shows some custom dialogs inside the Poise GUI frame. Previously these dialogs were show externally in their own window.
Bug Fix: Drum pad context menu Cut & Paste commands weren't working. The target pad would be reset.
Bug Fix: Modal dialogs would open behind the Poise GUI and host GUI in some circumstances. The host application would appear to hang.
One Small Clue Poise Poise v 1.1.50.72 Jun 24, 2014 Windows
Muting drum pads when the left mouse button is released is now option. Previously drum pads were always muted.
Poise will now send MIDI Note events when triggering a drum pad with the mouse.
Bug Fix: Poise would crash if it didn't have permission to write in it's debug data directory.
Bug Fix: Poise was failing to recall sample layer velocity ranges correctly in some situations.
Bug Fix: A loud click would sometimes be heard when delaying a sample onset (using the Sample Offset control). More noticable if the sample end marker was also not on a zero-crossing.
Bug Fix: Some drum pad names refused to show on the GUI.
Bug Fix: Text in browser isn't scrambled after adding new directories.
One Small Clue Poise v 1.1.50.67 May 31, 2014 Windows
Bug Fix: Checking for data dir shortcut could cause AV error.
Bug Fix: The GUI wasn't resizing in Samplitude Pro X version 12.
Bug Fix: Poise was unable to Normalise samples after a sample layer was duplicated.
Improved Geist drum kit import.
Samples can now be loaded via Copy and Paste. Copy samples files from windows explorer. Select a Poise drum pad then paste to load.
Several drum pad options have been added to the drum pad context menu. Previously these drum pad options could only be modified via unlabled graphic controls on the GUI.
sample Poise v 1.1.50.50 Jun 4, 2013 Windows
Bug Fixed: Sample points don't update when they move via midi learn.
Bug Fixed: AIF files should now load correctly on 64-bit builds. Previously AIF files would only load on 32-bit builds.
Bug Fixed: Using hotkeys to change drum kits wouldn't work correctly in Reaper. The drum kit loading dialog would pop up whenever a drum kit would change. The dialog would steal the keyboard focus from Poise. The focus wasn't returned to Poise after the loading dialog closed. The problem has been fixed by making the loading dialog show inside the Poise GUI window.
Change: Audio Preview code has been updated to use the same sample loading code as the main audio engine. This should fix problems with some samples loading on the drum pads but not previewing.
samples Poise v 1.1.50.48 May 23, 2013 Windows
Change: Poise will now show a message when samples can't be loaded.
Some fixes to the new audio file loading code that was introduced in the last update.
pitch Poise v 1.1.50.43 May 15, 2013 Windows
Added Muon SR-202 kit import.
Skins with incorrect image sizes now render correctly. (Images were not being resized in previous versions of Poise.)
Change: Improved Next/Previous sample loading.
Change: Hotkeys Debugging panel only shows in debug builds.
Bug Fix: Would crash while loading .aif files.
Improved support for 24 bit .wav files.
Known Problem: The 64-bit build will crash during drag and drop operations on some computers. This bug is being worked on. Please get in touch if it affects you.
browser Poise v 1.1.43.2 Nov 12, 2012 Windows
Bug Fix: Browser was causing serious errors.
round-robin Poise v 1.1.43 Nov 9, 2012 Windows
Added 'Save Trigger Map As Default' command.
The MPC skin was rendering incorrectly. Fixed.
download Poise v 1.1.42 Sep 18, 2012 Windows
Bug Fix: Drum pad names weren't reported to the host correctly. Therefore hosts were unable to display drum pad names in their piano rolls.
Bug Fix: The Waveform display wasn't being updated when changing drum pads.
Bug Fix: Beta version: Didn't draw the CUT/CUT BY text in the correct postion on the drum pad.
Bug Fix: Beta version: The preview volume knob image was the incorrect size in the default skin (Mild Gray).
Change: Studio One: Poise now always enables the maximum number of outputs when used within Studio One.
mac Poise v 1.1.34 Jul 26, 2012 Windows
Released a 64-bit BETA version.
MixCraft 6: Automating layer parameters would cause MixCraft to hang.
Removed bug reporting component which was causing crashes in some hosts.
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windows Poise v 1.1.19 Apr 18, 2012 Windows
Bug Fix: MIDI learn configuration wasn't being saved.
Bug Fix: "Reload Samples" command wasn't working correctly.
Bug Fix: "Choose Sample Editor" command would cause an access violation error.
Bug Fix: Previously locked pads would be overwritten when slcing and importing a loop. Now the locked pad data is not overwritten.
Bug Fix: ProTools - Outputs are now fixed to 16 stereo outs.
Change: Modified the Hotkey method. Previously hotkeys were being captured in Reaper when Poise wasn't in focus. The new method hasn't been tested in all hosts.
Change: "Poise Data.xml" can now use a relative path to locate the data folder.
Change: Default output count option is not shown in hosts that don't support output configuration changes.
Change: Hotkeys now work in Orion.
macintosh Poise v 1.1.18 Jan 17, 2012 Windows
The "Poise Data.xml" can now use relative paths to locate the Poise Data directory.
Bug Fix: Older skins using the JSON format for config files did not work.
pc Poise v 1.1.17 Jan 12, 2012 Windows
New: Added a \"Save Drum Kit to Project Folder...\" command for Reaper users.
Change: The location of the Poise data folder can be specified in an XML document in the VST plugin folder instead of in the registry.
Change: Poise now automatically searches for missing files in the drum kit and sample directories.
Change: FL Studio 10. The output configuration is now fixed to 16 stereo outputs.
Bug Fix: FL Studio 10. Projects using Poise with multiple outputs weren\'t restored correctly.
Bug Fix: Cubase 5.5. Outputs weren\'t configured properly.
Bug Fix: Configuration files were saved to the drive root if the Poise data directory couldn\'t be found.
Poise v 1.1.13 Dec 20, 2011 Windows
Version 1.1.13 (19 December 2011)
Bug Fix: FL Studio 10 would hang when the Poise GUI was open.

Version 1.1.1.12 (13 December 2011)
Error reporting is now optional and off by default. Previously, error reporting was always on, but required confirmation before sending any reports.
Poise v 1.1.1 Nov 30, 2011 Windows
Bug Fix: In ProTools the GUI did not draw itself correctly when first opened.
Bug Fix: The "Velocity Split" and "Velocity Remove Overlap" commands did not work correctly. They were leaving small gaps in a pads velocity mapping. Pads would not trigger when the velocity fell in gaps between samples.
Bug Fix: Previewing 24 bit PCM wavefiles in the browser would hang Poise.
Active pads are now killed on sequencer stop.
Sending a MIDI panic message to Poise will now kill all active drum pads.
Hotkeys should now work in FL Studio 9.
Hotkeys might work in Renoise (some more testing needs to be done).
Improved how the hotkeys work. The improvements will make it easier and quicker to fix hotkey problems in future.
Poise v 1.0.78 Aug 3, 2011 Windows
New: Drag & Drop Export Render feature. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Drag & Drop] Drum Pad will export an automatically rendered version of the drum pad.
New: Geist Kit format support added.
New: "Render Pad To Disk" and "Save Render Only" commands.
New: Load Previous / Next Sample hot keys. [B / N]
The parameter scaling for the ADSR amplitude envelope was very poor in the lower ranges. This has been improved.
When attempting to edit sample files that only existed in RAM, Poise would fail silently. Now Poise will give the option to save the sample file to disk, then open the sample editor.
Bug Fix: The ADSR amplitude envelope didn't work correctly with very small decay times.
Bug Fix: Auto-select pads was temporairly disabled after selecting "edit sample with..." command
Bug Fix: Poise would occasionally crash when changing drum kits.
Bug Fix: Rendered sample volume levels are now consistent when "velocity to amplitude" modulation amounts are less then 100%.
Bug Fix: GUI resizing in Sonar should now work.
Bug Fix: GUI resizing in Cubase 5.5.3 now works correctly.
Bug fix: Hang-on-exit bug has been fixed. This bug would only show on some machines. It was related to improper thread handling when previewing samples in the browser.
Bug Fix: when loading more then 8 samples, an error dialog shows. This shouldn't happen.
Bug Fix: Individual sample layers are now only selected by MIDI when the host sequencer is stopped. (Previously automatic drum pad selection was surpressed, but individual sample layers were still selected.
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