In 2011 Yellow Tools' technology was bought out by MAGIX, the makers of Samplitude and Sequoia and many other professional media apps. We don't mean to be negative, but hey, that's real-life.
Plus the interface has workflow problems. The other is that the interface uses a font that IMHO is incredibly hard to read. (This makes Translator invaluable for making the most of the sampler.)
That's it, and incredibly to this day that's STILL it. Independence version 1 was released with a Utility called Independence Convertor™, which was a scaled down version of Translator itself, and allows importing of Akai S1000/3000 and SoundFont files. One is that Independence lacks any native import ability, besides a inventive way of mapping out incoming single samples.
Two fairly unusual things we can't help but mentioning. Version 3 got rid of the Basic Path/Root Folder concept (see below), which was significant. Most version updates have mostly streamlined the interface and added a few things for ease of use here and there. Independence version 3 was released again later and that as of this writing is the current version.īest Service has worked with Yellow Tools to release some of their in-house sounds using Independence as a "Player" type of setup, with a custom interface, very similar to Native Instrument's approach with Kontakt. An Independence Free was released, adding a included large multi-GB sound set. Independence then was upgraded to version 2, retitling Independence Pro. Version One came with tons of sounds from Kirk Hunter, the noted string library developer. Yellow Tools first distributed through EastWest, then dropped them to attempt distribution with a few other European and American companies, among them SynthAx in Ohio and Best Service in Germany. Independence started out with version 1 with all kinds of bells and whistles - a extended Round Robin facility, plus convolution effects and a complete modular architecture in regards to envelopes and LFO's and the like. Then they finally made their own sampler, called Independence, and surprisingly it was loaded with powerful functionality, even approaching Kontakt in it's modular approach. Yellow Tools, a German company, created sounds for other samplers for a long time. Yellow Tools Independence Format Information