Editor for Assimil8or
A8Manager
Preset editor for the Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or — an 8 channel sampler for Eurorack.
What's inside
Preset editing from your SD card
A8Manager is a Preset Editor for the Rossum Electro-Music Assimil8or, an 8 channel sampler for Eurorack.
- Open source and cross platform (Windows and macOS)
- Edit Presets from SD Card
- Drag and drop multiple samples
- Audition raw samples to adjust loop points
- Validate file system contents and offer fixes for common problems (file name length, valid file name characters, etc)
Release history
- v2.7.1 — New hotkeys and safer sample handling
- New hotkeys: Ctrl/Cmd + 1–8 selects a channel, Alt/Option + 1–8 selects a zone on the current channel, Space plays the zone while held (TRIGGER), Shift + Space toggles LATCH — these also work while a text field has focus
- New waveform right-click menu items: Set Loop To Sample and Set Sample To Loop
- Dropping samples onto a preset can no longer delete or truncate the original files; files outside the preset folder are never changed, and existing files with the same name are never overwritten; if a sample can't be prepared, nothing changes and an alert explains why
- Deleting files, presets, and Validator conversions now moves them to the Trash/Recycle Bin instead of deleting them permanently
- Fixed bug where, with Loop Length shown as Loop End and no length set, dragging the loop start could push the loop end past the end of the sample
- Requires macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later — for older Macs, use 2.6.3
- v2.7 — New look, improved waveform/audition workflow, and bug fixes
- New visual style, shared with SquidManager and ClutchEdit
- Improved waveform viewer
- Can be zoomed and panned
- Can be enlarged
- Sample and Loop markers are color coded
- Now shows a playhead
- New context menu for moving around the waveform, zooming to marker boundaries, and moving markers
- Auditioning now matches how the module itself plays back, including play mode, loop mode, and sample/loop points; renamed the ONCE/LOOP buttons to TRIGGER/LATCH
- Stereo-linked channels now have linked tabs
- On Stereo/Right channels it's now obvious that MODE can be changed, and PAN can now be changed too
- Fixed several stereo pair bugs, including assigning a new or mono sample to a stereo pair
- New Match Opposite Boundary feature, and reorganized the zero-crossing menu
- CV Input combo box now matches the module's labels ("CV A/B/C" instead of "0A/0B/0C")
- Ctrl + drag for changing values works better
- Switched to the MIT License and added attribution for bundled fonts
- Build system: moved to CMake (shared setup with SquidManager and ClutchEdit), updated JUCE to 9.0.1 (now a submodule, fixing a WAV-reading bug), moved shared utility code into oolib, moved to C++20, and added a regression test suite
- v2.6.3 — For older Macs; runs on macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and later — download
- Includes all bug fixes and new features through 2.7.1, except the new UI and new waveform viewer
- Some of the 2.7/2.7.1 waveform features are included in the original waveform view: a playhead showing audition playback position; Ctrl/Cmd + drag moves a marker and its partner together (sample start/end or loop start/end); and a right-click menu with Zero Crossing Nudge, Match Opposite Boundary, Set Loop To Sample, Set Sample To Loop, and Set Marker Here for each marker
- Zooming, panning, the enlarged view, and color-coded markers are only in 2.7.1 — if your Mac runs macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later, 2.7.1 is recommended
- v2.6.2 — Fixed a bug in reading Presets which were created by third party apps which did not exactly match the format the module creates
- v2.6.1 — Updated for Assimil8or FW 3.03 and fixed a serious bug
- New FW: Extended MIDI Pitch Bend range from +/- 12 to +/- 48
- New FW: Updated Midi Setups Editor with addition of "Indexed KZ" to Multi Mode Assigns and new numerical parameter Index Base Key
- Fixed serious bug introduced in v2.5, where a value from a parameter text edit field would not actually update if you clicked away from that parameter
- v2.6 — Added new feature to the Preset TOOLS menu, Import/Export of Settings and Samples
- v2.5.1 — Fixed bug that could cause sample/loop source selection to not work
- v2.5 — New features and bug fixes
- Auto convert audio files that are not wav files. (Drag and drop, File Chooser, and Validator)
- Midi Setups Editor
- Enable Save button as soon as an edit is done on the Preset name
- Allow drag n drop on File View
- Properly give focus to edit field in the New Folder and Rename dialogs
- Added 'Delete' option for wav files in the File View
- Added 'Rename' option for wav files in the File View
- Added file/folder name to top of Popup Menus in File View
- Implemented Stereo → mono mix and Stereo → dual mono separation from the FileView
- Updated double click on a wav file in the File View, to highlight the name and show "- Loading <samplename>" to indicate that something happened
- Removed preset and other system files from the File View
- Add 'remove unused samples from preset folder' feature
- Updated File View to only show Folders and Wav files
- Added Move Up and Move Down to the Preset Browser popup menu
- Text is selected in a field when the field is first selected
- Add mousewheel support for scrolling numerical text editors and comboboxes
- Add Explode to Channel TOOLS menu
- Add 'zero' line into loop tuner
- Make waveform display marker handles bigger
- Add Zero Crossing loop point align
- Display proper error message in Zone drop target when files won't be dropped
- Make active zone more obvious by increasing the contrast between active and inactive tabs
- Make active sample/loop section more obvious in Zone Editor by adding a bounding box
- Reworked sample point selection — removed SOURCE buttons
- Moved Play buttons on top of Loop Tuner
- Add Explode to Zone TOOLS menu
- Add Flip to Zone TOOLS menu
- Fixed Preset Tool tip when not showing all Presets
- Fixed bug with Preset List position jumping when using PopupMenu
- Fixed bug where right-click would also select the row
- Fixed bug where loading a sample into a zone that already had a sample can cause the start/end loop/end to go out of bounds
- Fix Zone Insert Bug (zone voltage was not set correctly)
- v2.4.6 — Bug fix
- Fixed bug where the Phase Mod Source for Left/Right Inputs were swapped
- v2.4.5 — Bug fixes and a few new things
- Fixed bug due to misunderstanding of 'Side' Parameter
- Implemented missing feature to select left or right channel of stereo WAV file
- Fixed bug for stereo file playback, if right channel was not from the same sample as left channel
- Improved mono playback by playing into both channels
- Fixed bug where Loop End would not display correctly when Preset first loaded
- v2.4.4 — Bug fixes and a few new things
- Fixed incorrect Preset Id bug when pasting Preset in the Preset Browser
- Fixed bug when deleting Preset in the Preset Browser, Editor was not cleared
- Added Default and Revert to the Preset TOOLS Menu
- Updated dialog text informing that you will lose your edits if you don't save
- v2.4.3 — Bug fix where converting stereo audio files were being converted to mono
- v2.4.2 — Bug fix for crash when dragging more than 8 samples into a Zone
- v2.4.1 — Editor updates and other cool stuff
- Ctrl-drag for slider type value change
- Right-click edit menu per control (Clone, Default, Revert)
- Full waveform view with moveable markers
- Copy/paste zone without changing the sample
- Import/Export Presets
- Clone whole Channel and whole Zone
- Clone all Zone Voltages to another Channel
- Added missing Tool Tips
- Minor UI updates
- Fixed bug that left Envelope edit handle active when mouse left editor
- Fixed bug where SAVE button was highlighted, even if Preset data had been reset to the unedited values
- Fixed bug where Attack and Release were not actually updated if modified with the Graphic Editor