Thursday, January 17, 2013

Coming soon: Drumkit 2.0

A new update is going to be released in the upcoming weeks: version 2.0.

The biggest new thing is the totally different way of managing the drums. Previously, the application would use predefined sounds and images, and there was no way of changing that. Starting with this update, a new format based on XML will be introduced. In the upcoming 2.x versions, users will be able to create drum packages themselves, export, share and so on.

These features will not be introduced all at once, but one by one in the upcoming versions.

I would also like to make a (sad) announcement, the application may introduce ads in one of the upcoming 2.x versions, and introduce a payed/donation version. However, I assure you that version 2.0 will still be free.

New features in version 2.0:

  • Animations: drums will animate when pressed
  • Configuration persistance: settings and layouts will be saved, in the previous version these would reset every time the program was restarted.

Improvements in version 2.0:

  • Better touch and mouse handling
  • Improved latency
  • Loading screen