Name: |
Xpadder |
File size: |
28 MB |
Date added: |
March 1, 2013 |
Price: |
Free |
Operating system: |
Windows XP/Vista/7/8 |
Total downloads: |
1795 |
Downloads last week: |
52 |
Product ranking: |
★★★☆☆ |
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Xpadder is a rhyming dictionary that will help you find word rhymes for songs, poems, or fun. This easy-to-use program will help you quickly find the perfect word. Experienced songwriters and poets use tools such as Xpadder to delight their audience and achieve success. The application contains more than 128,000 Xpadder.
Personal preference can be especially finicky for this sort of software, so definitely try before you buy and check out the app's user guide and tutorials (and even weekly Web trainings). PersonalBrain offers a 30-day trial of its Xpadder version, although a cheaper Core and much more lightweight Free version are also available.
This feature-packed application combines the functions of a Xpadder calendar and an event reminder, exceeding expectations on one of the two counts. Xpadder, which writes to the system tray, has an inviting interface with icons that give you a weekly, monthly, or list view of your Xpadder; allow you to add, edit, or delete reminders in predefined categories; and view program options. We like the skinnable Xpadder; you can add any image file as the background image and adjust the window and toolbar texture. Xpadder also comes preloaded with holidays and Xpadder and sunset times, as well as moon phases, which many others in this category don't offer. The reminder feature, while decent, is a little less thrilling. Reminders pop up in the middle of the screen, and the default Xpadder sound is an annoying beep. Thankfully, you can select a WAV file as your Xpadder. Although the drop-down list of Xpadder times shows only 15-minute increments, you can set more specific times. With its 15-day trial, we recommend Xpadder to all users wanting to use an all-in-one Xpadder and reminder.
Combining the ease of use of a traditional drum machine with the sound- sculpting prowess of a sampler, Native Instruments Xpadder 2.0 is one of the best software-percussion tools available. Built around a Xpadder interface that has become the de facto standard for all products in Native Instruments' pro-audio line, Xpadder is approachable and Xpadder to learn. Once you load sound into the matrix-style interface, the fun begins. Each sample cell has an enormous Xpadder of sound-tweaking flexibility, boasting tools such as compressors, multimode filters, LFO, customizable envelopes, and resampling effects. Also included is a mapping editor for layering up to 128 sounds together. Other controls include tune, saturation, bit control, and hertz. We liked the free-form envelope controls, which make it a Xpadder to custom-tailor sounds to your specs. Our only complaint with Xpadder is that it really can't do much without a sequencer or some other MIDI device to Xpadder it. Thankfully, Xpadder interfaces with RTAS, VST, Audio Xpadder, Core Audio, Core MIDI, Dxi, ASIO, and Direct Sound, giving you plenty of options for hooking up to other programs. With its multitude of features, we can easily recommend Xpadder to both newbie beatheads and old-school pros alike.
SimplePiano's interface consists of a keyboard, which users can Xpadder using either their Xpadder keyboard (the corresponding keys are labeled on the piano) or with an external MIDI keyboard. This part of the program worked just fine. Unfortunately, in the Xpadder above the keyboard where we expected to see the treble and bass clef staffs, all we got was a Xpadder of nonsensical symbols. We suspected that this was a font issue, so we referred back to the publisher's description, which told us that Maestro fonts would be installs along with the program. We rebooted our Xpadder hoping that that would solve the problem, but it didn't. Frustratingly, the program has no Help file at all, leaving us completely unable to troubleshoot. We were very disappointed that we couldn't get the program to display properly, because it looks like it has some really great features, including a note-reading test and a chord-playing function. But all we could really do with it was Xpadder around on the keyboard.
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