Currently, the MSRP of Constructor™ is $149.95. It is dual-platform - both Mac and Windows version are included.

You can purchase at our retail arm SamplerZone.com, or at most any music store. Sometimes SampleZone.com has sales periodically.

Yes, we call it Constructor™ Free. It primarily exists to show you the program and shows you how easy it is to use, and what it feels like. You can use it to move files around and to format proprietary disks.

Go the the Download Constructor™ Free page to download it.

Constructor™ is a physical product and MUST be shipped to you.

However, so you can use the program immediately, we offer a temporary build that you can download after you order from SamplerZone.com, to use for the time being. That temproary build expires by the time the CD arrives.

Updates are available for immediate download from our Web Site, using our easy-to-use updating method from the program itself.

(Please notify us if any of these links are dead.)

• SamplerZone.com

More distributors, such as Guitar Center, AudioMIDI.com, Sweetwater, Best Service GmbH, and Time+Space are being lined up as of this writing.

Yes, we support proprietary sampler floppy disks using the Omniflop Windows Replacement Floppy Driver. (You must download and install this yourself; don't worry, it's easy.) Any Ensoniq, Roland, Akai, or Emu floppy should show up in the Proprietary Dialog, showing the title "Floppy A".

You can read a file off the disk, write a file onto the disk, read the whole disk as a Virtual Drive, write a Virtual Drive onto a floppy, plus format any floppy to any disk format.

Go to the Supported Formats page, look for the SOURCE and DESTINATION sampler formats you are interested in, and see what is supported so far. This page is updated to reflect the current translations available is the onmly authoritative source for current information on supported formats.

Obviously all/most exports will be to a certain extent "lossy." The point is to get as close as possible to achieve coherency, just like language translation does. All samplers share basically the same attributes, with supersets of the basic OSC-FILTER-AMP-ENVELOPE-LFO scheme. Translator is extensively documented on the abilities and limitations of it's translations.

Constructor™ can potentially build Instruments and Banks better and faster, with it's auotmated tools. Also, Constructor™ writes to ANY format, not just the one your sampler writes. Lastly, if you are working with multiple samplers, it gives you one platofrm to learn rather than many.

Call or e-mail us and give us SPECIFIC information on the problem - best of all, send us the actual source file in question - you may do this without prior permission.

• Report the incident at our Bug Report Page - this is all you need to do.
• OR, you can e-mail us it regardless of size (beware: your outgoing server probably restricts e-mails sizes).
• OR, FTP it to our site (do not include spaces in the file name you are sending).
• For more info on sending files, see the Sending Files area of the documentation.

Chicken Systems uses a information-intensive bug-solving apparatus that allow us to diagnosis any problem. We listen and may upload or e-mail you an update within 24-48 hours.