 
Multi-Format, Cross-Platform Instrument Builder
Chicken Systems announces the release of their long-awaited Constructor™ program. Constructor™ allows you to create any multisampled Instrument from scratch - using not only WAVE/AIFF sources, but also from any pre-existing instrument OF ANY FORMAT. You can save your Instruments directly into any format too - software AND hardware! So no matter what sampler(s) you use, Constructor™ will directly support it.
Constructor™ is available now from our SamplerZone.com affiliate. Special prices are available for owners of other Chicken Systems products such as Translator™, MV Kit Creator™, and more.
 Constructor™ is remarkably easy to use. A Document represents an Instrument. You can start off with a new "blank slate" or open an existing Instrument - for example, a Kontakt .nki, a Structure patch, a GigaStudio instrument, a Roland Patch/Emu Bank/Ensoniq Instrument, or anything else - and improve on that.
You can add or delete samples using the graphical KeyMap View, or edit the real-time parameters using the Parameter Editor. Constructor™ also introduces the concept of View Groups. They allow you to see a section of your Instrument based on your criteria, and hides the rest.
Constructor™ isn't just for professional Instrument designers - it's for everyone who wants to make even elementary edits to their instruments, or wants to set new Instruments up in their own personal way.
Constructor™ introduces the concept of Banks, where you can take as many Instruments as you like and arrange them in an infinite amount of possibilities. You can make a collection of Instruments and save them as one SoundFont or GigaStudio file or Motif All Voice, for instance, but that's not all. You can merge several Instruments into one Instrument, using your own Rule criteria, allowing custom split/layer programs without sacrificing the original Instrument. Even better, this process is so easy it can take as little as 10-20 seconds!
One of Constructor™'s design goals was logical workflow and ease of use. Despite it's power, theres no detail clutter or top-level technologies you'll rarely use. The Instrument Document is user-designable - save your favorite Document designs, not forcing factory-designed editing areas like most editing envvironments.
Practically every sampler destination format known to man is supported - from Kontakt, to EXS24, to Emulator E4, to Ensoniq ASR-10, to Akai S-3000, and more. It is truly UNIVERSAL and not encumbered by a single base format. Nor do you only have to have a Mac to have a powerful instrument editor.
But despite the multiplicity of supported formats, Constructor™ doesn't impose this complexity on the user, hiding most of it. Constructor™ approaches "Instruments" as a generic structure, similar to what graphic editors do - once you open a Picture (no matter if it's a JPEG or PNG), once you are editing it, its just a Picture.
Constructor™ has many more features and capabilities not listed here. For more information on Constructor™, click here.
Constructor™ retails for $199.95, but for a limited time it will be available for an Introductory price of $149.95. Registered users of Translator (any edition), MV Kit Creator, or Ensoniq Tools (MIDIDisk, Disk, and ASR-X) can purchase Constructor™ for a special price of $99.95.
You can purchase Constructor™ and download it shortly thereafter at SamplerZone.com. For a list of special offers to Translator owners and other Chicken Systems products, please go to the Chicken Systems web site at this link.
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