New Features

The Programs and Layers tabs on the Load Panel have been redesigned to allow for an easier and quicker search. You can choose from filter tags that are proposed based on your search settings, you can configure attribute menus to narrow down the search results, and you can save your search settings as presets to use them when looking for similar content. See File Management with the Programs and Layers Tabs of the Load Panel.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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