New Features

The following list informs you about the most important improvements in Backbone and provides links to the corresponding descriptions.

New Features in Version 1.5.0

DrumGAN

Backbone 1.5 now comes with DrumGAN, an innovative drum generator developed by Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL). Powered by artificial intelligence, it creates new kick drum, snare drum, and cymbal samples in a very fast, intuitive way. It can also analyze samples, replicate them and create countless variations. DrumGAN is the perfect addition to Backbone for crafting new drum sounds entirely from scratch, while staying in your favorite sample editing environment. See DrumGAN Drum Resynthesis.

Export Settings

You can now use the last triggered note and velocity as a reference for the export. See Export Settings.

Normalize Sample Parameters

With version 1.1.0 of Backbone, Normalize Sample and Normalize Level were moved from the Sample page toolbar to the parameter section. In addition, a Gain Offset parameter was introduced. See Parameters.

Sample Range

You can now move the Sample Start and Sample End markers together to change the sample range. See Setting up the Sample Range.

Loop Range

You can now move the Loop Start and Loop End markers together to change the loop range. See Setting up the Loop Range.

Single Layer Export

You can now export single layers from Backbone using drag and drop. See Exporting Single Layers.