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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

☰ › Kiwipulse › Open project… and Save project… load and save the whole session.

• Save / Open project: a project file (.project.kiwi). It holds everything: the groove, the kit, the sample pool and the project's name, so a project is portable as a single file. Samples you imported travel inside it with their audio; the bundled acoustic samples are only named, because every copy of Kiwipulse has them. It is the file format every Kiwisonic product reads, so Kiwisonic opens it as it is.
• Older projects: Open still reads .kpp packages and loose .json projects. Save always writes a .project.kiwi, so the old file is left alone.
• Newer projects: a project saved by a later Kiwipulse opens with everything this version knows. What it does not know is kept, and written back when you save.

To hear what Kiwipulse can do without building a project first, open the kit library instead (click the kit's name in the header): 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 Glitch, 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).

Nothing is cut short by a change. A drum still ringing when you load a project or a kit, undo, or switch its machine rings out as it was; the next hit plays the new sound.

See also

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