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Paax Free
by Kotkas Soft
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Product Paax Free
Developer Kotkas Soft
Primary Type Sampler/Sample Player
Price (MSRP) Free
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Windows 2.2.2 Free DownloadReleased
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Supported Sample Formats include Akai, SF2, WAV
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Average User Rating Average rating - 8.375
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Paax Free

Features:

  • Up to 128 presets per bank.
  • Up to 84 splits per preset and 8 dual velocity-layers (16 samples) per split.
  • 64 simultaneous voices.
  • This version can load 8/16 bit mono/stereo wav files, but it can play native banks with 24/32 bit wavs (or embedded samples).
  • Low CPU consumption.
  • RAM save scheme (only active presets samples are loaded at one time).
  • Low aliasing resampling technology, 32 bit audio engine.
  • 3 envelope controls (DAHDSR) per preset: amplitude, pitch and filter cutoff.
  • 3 configurable LFOs per preset: tremolo, vibrato and filter cutoff with optional delay.
  • All envelopes and oscillators can be synchronized to MIDI tempo.
  • New bank format offers choice for embedded or referenced samples.
  • Capable of importing SoundFonts (.sf2) and AKAI S5000/6000 programs (.akp)
  • Fully automatable.
  • VST 2.3 compatible.

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Kotkas releases Paax 3 Pro and Paax Free v2.2.2 9th June 2006
Kotkas announces Paax 3 18th April 2006
Kotkas updates Paax (Free and Pro) to v2.2.1 8th February 2006
Kotkas updates Paax 2 Free/Pro to v2.2 15th August 2005
Kotkas updates Paax Free/Pro to v2.1.4 31st July 2005
Kotkas updates Paax Free/Pro to v2.1.2 26th July 2005
Kotkas updates Paax Pro to v2.1.1 25th July 2005
Kotkas releases Paax v2.1 (Free & Pro) 22nd July 2005
Kotkas releases Paax 2 Pro 21st July 2005
Kotkas releases Paax 2 3rd July 2005
Kotkas announces Paax 2 4th April 2005
Kotkas Paax v1.3.1 released 14th January 2005
kotkas updates Paax to v1.3 3rd January 2005
Paax updated to v1.2.1 17th December 2004
Paax updated to v1.2 15th December 2004
New Banks Uploaded 2nd December 2004
Paax updated to v1.1 29th November 2004
Kotkas releases Paax v1.0 22nd November 2004

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By jarred_drozd
On 15th May 2006
Version: 2.2.1.

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this is good stuff. i just tried 4 other wave players from this site . none of them worked properly in my setup. i have sonar 5 studio. i don't want to name the other products but if you use sonar do yourself a favor and get this one. other wave players got stuck notes, froze my computer, one shot at me a lot of white noise. i wanted something with adsr controls. and this one has it, with a nice touch; they show attack or release times in seconds, not in abstract numbers. stereo samples play back in stereo(some other vstis didn't). paax even has nice fx, reverb chorus and delay.
integration into sonar seems to be excellent- when you save a sonar file paax window pops up asking you if you want to save paax's bank.excellent. you don't have to worry you made edits that you are going to lose.
good stuff.
it could be a liitle simpler to use. like you have to specify range to import a sound, even if it's just one sample you want spreaded across the whole keyboard.
but if you used a sampler or some other vstis before you can figure it out. it's not as easy though as ,say, sfz simple player.
well, it's a price to pay for all those functions in music technology.
i don't know about documentation or support for it.
so , ignore my marks on those two.
 
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