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Free download includes a trial of the paid features:


download Soundplantfor download Soundplant Windows Windows v.50.7.5 (April 2023)
for Windows 11/10/8/7, 64-bit
Soundplant50_Win_setup.exe [139 MB]
download Soundplantfor download Soundplant for Macintosh Mac v.50.7.5 (April 2023)
for macOS 14 Sonoma down to 10.13
universal binary for Apple Silicon & Intel
Soundplant50.dmg [266 MB]


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Download Legacy Soundplant

Select older versions of Soundplant are still available if you need them for older computers:

download older versions of Soundplant for Windows Soundplant 47 (2018) for Windows 7 & up [47 MB] (last version that works on 32-bit Windows, may be better for older/slower computers)
Soundplant 45 (2017) for Windows Vista & up [38 MB] (last version that works on Vista)
Soundplant 43 (2016) for Windows XP sp2 & up [25 MB] (last version that works on XP)
Soundplant 39 (2010) for Windows XP sp2 & up [8 MB] (may be better for even older/slower computers)
Soundplant 26.1 (2002) for Windows 9x/NT & up [2 MB] (last version that works on Win 95/98/NT/2k)
Soundplant beta 12 (1999) for Windows 9x/NT & up [2 MB] (the first release of Soundplant! here for nostalgia only, it's not particularly useful)
download older versions of Soundplant for Macintosh Soundplant 50.5 (2022) for macOS 10.11 & up, Apple Silicon & Intel [257 MB] (last version that works on OS X pre-10.13)
Soundplant 47 (2018) for macOS 10.9-10.14, Intel [64 MB] (last version that works on OS X pre-10.11, last 32-bit version)
Soundplant 45 (2017) for Mac OS X 10.6-10.14, Intel [50 MB] (last version that works on OS X pre-10.9)
Soundplant 39 (2010) for Mac OS X 10.4-10.8, Intel & PPC [22 MB] (last version that works on PPC & OS X pre-10.6)
Soundplant beta 27 (2004) for Mac OS X 10.1.5-10.6 & Classic 9.2+, PPC [4 MB] (last version that works on OS 9 & OS X pre-10.4)
Soundplant beta 26 (2002) for Mac OS Classic 8.1+, PPC [3 MB] (last version that works on OS 8)



Download Free Soundplant Keymaps

Here are some example .keymaps to play with:

beat pad 2 [4.5 MB] - Drum pad of sounds extracted from various breakbeats, with a mix of well-worn classic hip-hop sample sources and dug-up finds. Compatible with Soundplant v.40 and up.

sine wave church organ [0.008 MB] - A chromatically tuned, heavily reverberating organ made from a simple sine tone, utilizing 'fade/hold' keymode to sustain the tone while holding down keys and fade out on release. A great way to test out the NKRO capabilities of your keyboard! Compatible with Soundplant v.40 and up.

keys of Tron [2.12 MB] - Sound effects from the classic arcade games Tron (1982) and Discs of Tron (1983). Some cool vintage synth sounds and chiptune building blocks here. I always wondered if Wendy Carlos was involved in the brilliant sound design of these games. Compatible with Soundplant v.40 and up.

Speak & Spell alphabet [1.34 MB] - The letters of the alphabet as spoken by a vintage Speak & Spell speech synthesizer, assigned to their corresponding keyboard keys. Especially fun for kids learning to read and type. Sourced from a UK model so it's got a cute British accent. Compatible with Soundplant v.40 and up.

car keys [0.1 MB] - Microtonal electric piano made out of the 'ding' my car makes when I open the door with the keys left in the ignition. Compatible with Soundplant v.40 and up.

Floer Lickshot Archieve [10.4 MB] - DJ sound effect drops by reggae DJ Floer to spice up your mix with sirens, lasers, and yes, air horn. Compatible with Soundplant v.40 and up.


If you have created a keymap that is especially cool/fun/funny/useful that you'd like to share with the world here, submit it to soundplant [at] soundplant.org.




Free Online Sound Archives

Here are some links to free sound file sites to help get you started using Soundplant, with a varied assortment of sound sources, from standard sound effects libraries to audiophile samples of orchestral instruments to field recordings from around the world to breakbeats to experimental sound art to early electronic instruments:




Software Links

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Hardware Links

Some devices with interesting possibilities for use with Soundplant:




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Awards & Press

Soundplant has received awards and recognition from Electronic Musician Magazine (Download Of The Month), Sound On Sound Magazine (Useful Utilities For The PC Musician), CNET (How to play sounds using a computer keyboard, Five Star Award), Apkmonk (Turn Your Standard Keyboard into a Professional Soundboard with Soundplant!, 4.5 Stars), PPM6 (Soundplant Audio Player Review), No Film School (Audio Playback Made Easy), Software Informer (Editor's Pick, 5 Stars), Lockergnome (Newsletter Recommended Download), Softpedia (5/5 Pick), Free Download Manager (Recommended Award), Windows64.com (5 Stars), Top Download Club (5 Stars), soft82.com (5 Stars), Download 3000 (5 Stars), File Transit (5 Stars), Windows 11 Downloads (4 Stars), and Tai Mien Phi (feature review), among many others.




Credits

Soundplant 50 was written primarily in JavaScript with some C/C++, and gratefully uses open source libraries by Yotam Mann, Benjamin Taylor, Alexander Barker, Almog Hamdani, Gary Scavone, katspaugh, Sindre Sorhus, Stefan Schaermeli, Matt DesLauriers, INCORS, Legokichi Duckscallion, David Lindkvist, Mihai Bazon, Timofey Kachalov, and Mano, Gon & Olivier.

Feature sponsorship thanks to Nike, Inc., Marie-Andrée Pellerin, Man or Astro-man?, John Wingert, Jeremy Gold for Project KITT Jeep, Bob Wong/Audio Image Engineering Singapore, and Dan McGee.

Soundplant versions 39 and higher include a distribution of FFmpeg binaries, © Fabrice Bellard et al. As per the GNU General Public License, here is a copy of the FFmpeg source code used to compile the builds of FFmpeg used by the latest version of Soundplant (note that the latest sources will always be found at the FFmpeg home page, not here!): ffmpeg-N-102967-g3f5d5c1c2d.tar.bz2 [11 MB]

Earlier Soundplant versions up to v.47 were written in Lingo, JavaScript, and C++ and used libraries by Valentin Schmidt, Gary Smith, Antoine Schmitt, Tabuleiro, Stephan Eichhorn, and Marmalade. Soundplant versions 40-47 used the FluidSynth software synthesizer, © Peter Hanappe et al., by way of Antoine Schmitt's FluidXtra. Both projects are open source with full source repositories available at their respective links.




Soundplant is for playing digital samples with the computer keyboard or MIDI, but there are other programs which turn the computer keyboard into a MIDI keyboard that sends MIDI messages. If this is what you are looking for, try any of these: