Own sample kits help 
NOTICE! This page describes how you can build your own sample kits. If you just want to use the default ones, get one from the downloads page.

BeatEd has a support for multiple sample kits. Sample kit can be selected at any time from Sample Kit submenu using command Select Kit. The kit selection list contains all available sample kits including both installed official sample kits and user defined kits. User defined kits can be transferred to the device using e.g. bluetooth or cable connection and Nokia PC suite file manager. It is also possible to pack kit into a SIS install file, but that is not described in these instructions. If you have made a good sample kit, contact me and I may publish it as a SIS file on the download page.

Sample kit definition files (*.kit)

BeatEd sample kits are defined in *.kit definition files. File contains general information about the kit and definition for each track. There can be 1 to 16 track definitions in one kit. Each track can be mapped independently to any audio channel 0-15. Multiple tracks can be mapped to the same audio channel. This results that hit on any track stops any playing sound that mapped to the same channel. This is useful when having different kinds of hits for the same drum (e.g. hihat closed, hihat open, hihat pedal).

BeatEd searches kits from data paths c:\Data\BeatEd\Kits\ and e:\Data\BeatEd\Kits\. Kit file should be named Kitname.kit and installed to one of these data paths. Sample files should be placed into the subdirectory Samples\Kitname\ below the data path where kit file was installed.

File header fields (define once in the beginning of the file):
TYPE: file type. (must be "BeatEd_Kit_v1")
ID: Unique sample kit ID string. (e.g. "BeatEdHardRockKit")
NAME: Sample kit name. (e.g "Hard rock kit")
AUTHOR: Sample kit author name. (e.g. "Suckho/(B)")
COMMENT: Sample kit comment string. (e.g. "Gabba gabba hey!")

Track definition fields (define for each track):
TRACK_NAME: Name for the track. (e.g. "Bass drum")
SAMPLE_NAME: Sample filename. (e.g. "Samples\HardRock\bassdrum.raw")
AUDIO_TRACK: Audio channel. Multiple samples can be mapped to the same audio channel. (0-15)
VOLUME: Track volume. (256=normal)

See the example kit definition: SampleKitExample.zip

Sample files (*.raw)

BeatEd uses RAW sample format for storing sample data. RAW files have no headers so the data must be exactly in the correct format. BeatEd expects that data is in 22050Hz mono little-endian unsigned 16bit RAW format.

This means that you'll have to convert your samples to the proper format, using e.g. SoX command line utility for conversion.

Conversion with SoX can be done using the following command line:

sox infile.wav -c 1 -r 22050 -u -2 -L -t raw outfile.raw