Project

Kiwipulse is one drum instrument, not a song editor. It designs a drum sound and the one-bar groove that shows it off; arranging those bars into a track — order, repeats, variation over time — is your DAW's job. Your clip or track in the host is the arrangement.

There's no internal song timeline, no scene launcher, and no separate arranger page to maintain. That is deliberate: the host already does arrangement well, and every hour spent rebuilding it inside the plugin is an hour not spent on the sound.

What Kiwipulse does own, and no DAW can reach, is how the drum changes from hit to hit — velocity → timbre, macros, p-locks and breathe. That lives on the sound, not above it. See Using Kiwipulse in your DAW and Per-hit sound design.

Projects

The Project menu (transport bar) saves and loads the whole session.

• Save / Open project — a Kiwipulse package (.kpp). It bundles everything: the pattern, the kit, the sample pool (the actual WAV audio travels inside the package), and project metadata — so a project is portable as a single file.

To hear what Kiwipulse can do without building a project first, open the Kits browser instead: every built-in kit ships with its own one-bar groove, so loading one and pressing play gives you that style immediately — Crushed Techno, Acid, Lo-fi Hip-hop, Hard Rave, Punch House, IDM Crusher, Layered Trap, Modern Acoustic and 70s Rock.

Loading a project resets the undo history and transport. Everything you do afterwards is undoable (Ctrl/Cmd + Z).

See also

• Presets & kits — saving and reusing the sounds.
• Samples — the sample pool that travels inside the project package.