Bhajis Loops features
Sample editor
- Samples can be loaded from SamplePacks, .wav files stored on the memory card or sf2 SoundFonts.
- Sample editing functions: cut, copy, paste, trim, silence, undo.
- effects and transformations: loop cross-fade, gain, normalisation, distortion, reverse, downsampling, or any of the built-in effect plug-ins.
- Draw waveforms directly with the stylus!
- Built-in voice recorder (not available on Sony Clié devices).
- Sample size is only limited by the amount of free RAM.
- Modified samples can be saved as .wav files.
Synthesis section
- Your song can use up to 64 instruments.
- Wavetable synthesis.
- Low-pass / high-pass filter, cutoff and volume envelope.
- LFO controlling the pitch and the filter cutoff.
- Instrument layering / Keybaord mapping.
- Different voicing modes - mono, legato, polyphonic...
- Transposition.
- Support for micro-tuning (for traditional or historic intervals).
Pattern editor
- 8ppq resolution (32 steps per 4/4 bar) with shuffle.
- 3 editors: Piano-roll, Grid, and note parameters editor to set velocity, vibrato, pan values for each individual note.
- Complete editing: cut, copy, paste, merge, demix, undo.
- Pattern recorder for realtime or step-by-step recording of patterns, using an on-screen keyboard or the keys/buttons of your Palm.
- Pattern library to easily manage a collection of frequently used patterns across songs.
- Random note generator and humanization function.
- Scale feature to constraint the input/recorded notes in a given scale.
- Easy input of chords in standard notation (Bmin7, Asus4...)
Song editor
- 8 tracks on which patterns can be mixed - A pattern in itself can contain up to 64 instruments!
- Complete set of editing features with undo.
- 3 zoom levels.
- Looping, markers.
- MIDIfile import/export.
- Wav file rendering.
Mixing and effects
- Mixer with main fader, pan, effect send, mute / solo.
- 4 independent effect buses + one global send.
- Open plug-in architecture - new effects are added with each update, and you can even develop your own!
- (Ping-pong) delay, reverb, chorus, flanger, phaser, vocoder, pitch-shifting, distortion, EQ, and many more effects!
- XY pad: You can control two synthesis parameters in realtime with the position of your stylus or your finger on the touchscreen! Advanced tracking options to smooth or interpolate stylus moves.
Automation
- Volume, pan and most of the synthesis parameters (filter cutoff, resonance, envelope, LFO, effect send) can be automatized.
- Effect plug-ins parameters can be as well automatized.
- Intuitive vectorial editor taking advantage of the touchscreen and stylus.
- A complete range of editing features.
- Stylus movements in the XY pad can be recorded as automation tracks.
Live! mode
- Once you have composed your song, structure it by defining sections and bridges.
- Bhajis Loops Live! mode allows you to chain these sections in realtime, and jump between them.
- Exclusive Warp feature allowing complex transition rules like "If verse 1 is playing, and if the next requested section is verse 2, play verse 1 and then play verse 2 from its third bar". The accompaniment follows what you are playing, not the opposite!
- Mute buttons.
- Assignable controllers.
- Controllers can also be assigned to the hardware buttons / keys.
Other features
- Analog clock synchronization: the left and right channels of music are mixed and output on the left channel, and a 24ppqn clock signal is generated on the right channel.
- Full support of the 160x160, 160x240, 320x320, 320x480 and 480x320 screen modes.
- Complete Reference manual available in several formats. Contextual help in all the dialog boxes.
- Free song replayer.
- WinAMP plug-in to replay your songs on your PC.
- PC and Mac OS X conduits to render songs as .wav files, export MIDIfiles, samples or individual tracks during HotSync.