Acrobatics AiR Drive & JaZ Drive VST Instruments Legal Notes

The author retains copyright of this software.
You are not allowed to make any copies or redistribute this software including but not limited to making the software available for download or making this software part of a software CD compilation.
You are not allowed to sell or to rent this software.
You are not allowed to reverse engineer this software.
You are allowed to use this software for any artistic application including commercial music production.
This software is provided "as is", without any express or implied warranty.
In no event will the author be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.
Please refer to the original hardware manual for more informations. Acrobatics declines responsability for malfunctions or any data loss on your original Jomox (R) hardware unit.
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Support for Acrobatics products: acrobatics@blank-media.it
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Acrobatics AiR Drive & JaZ Drive MIDI Controllers (Version 1.0.4 - 9/9/2025)

Dedicated expressively to Jomox(R) AiRBase99 drum machine module and its later companion JaZBase03, which sported a different sample set.
The plugins synchronise all Kits parameters, Bank & Program changes along with remote editing and remote storing function, allowing strict dialoge of DAWs with the original hardware.
The softwares include alternative or simultaneous Send and Receive CC#s messages, to act both as a controller or as a librarian with mouse preview triggering and muting of pieces during edit or play.

Demo limitations: Snare & Rim controls, storing function disabled.
You can order full functional versions using Acrobatics Software eMail:
acrobatics@blank-media.it
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Tech notes:
MIDI compliant VST instrument.
Onscreen controls are fully recordable and automatable in host.
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Copyright notes:
Original development by Andrea Capanna, Rome, Italy
This product by Acrobatics Software 2017-2025, All Rights Reserved.
VST is a registered trademark by Steinberg GmbH.
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Version 1.0.4:
- The AiR and Jaz variations of plugin are now developed together in a unique piece of software.
- There is far more accuracy of MIDI data sent to the hardware, so that internal values better correspond to the assignment on the hardware: this fix also results in less CPU load. Otherwise some onscreen settings will still differ due to the way JoMoX hardware interpreters incoming MIDI values.
- Fixed a bug in samples selection buttons, occuring when receiving snapshots and wrong visualization.
- Added "Pool" menus in Kick, Snare, Rim, Clap, Toms, Hi-Hat. Pool menus give access to many instant pre-programmed settings for each piece. Settings for sample-based pieces are effective only for AiR Base99 models (as they of course depend on the hardware data on the machine) while kick, snare and toms work well also on JaZBase03 models.
- When BANK+PC SYNC ON, rotating through programs with <> buttons didn't update Bank selection. Fixed.
- Fixed LFO2 waveform droplist, that was showing availbale waveforms in a wrong order.
- Fixed Hi-Hat "Normal" mode letting affect filter settings while not visible by user. This can be useful when using AiR Drive for realtime changes and automation in host.
- Added “Randomize” option to Kick section: right-clicking switches from "locked" to "ready", then left-clicks generate a random setting for all kick parameters except EQ and Level sliders.
- Added "Start" parameter for JaZBase03 samples and their relative MIDI controls. Those new controls are not effective connecting a AiRBase99 hardware and do not affect its kits, anyway the programs loaded and saved in text format DO include these additional parameters for a full cross-compatibility of plugin programs loaded and saved in its own .TXT format file. The “Send” function will shoot that values to AiRBase99 device and pacifically ignored by the hardware. Otherwise the “Receive” function catches them from JaZ Base03 hardware and assign them properly to the program. 
- LFO 2 MIDI controller assignment for sending values to the machine was wrongly setted to LFO 1. Ooops, that was bad. Fixed.
- Added stickers pop-ups automatically on MIDI "input map" page and VST "value shown" page, this might be useful to visualize continuous controllers settings and range of parameters altogether. The MIDI LEARN function is working good now, and CC detected and stored stays as permanent settings in your VST plugins folder, just as MIDI and VST settings. 
- In VST pages, tossed "Pad Velocity" parameter and fixed at velocity=127, quite useless. Swapped that slot with a much more convenient "Key Trig" parameter for triggering kit pieces from the PC keyboard, so that the mouse is free for editing parameters while editing. We recommend that some VST hosts may have their own key-triggering, so watch out for collision with other DAW systems keyboard layout and functions and eventually use “Pad triggering” in sostitution for this function. 
- Added graphic flashing of instruments zones when triggering pieces from the plugin itself.
- For helping editing of parameters and having a stable view of the state of the isntrument, CTRL-left clicks on pieces names switches labels from name of controls to a check of their actual internal values.
- Bank Sync is now "numbering-consistent": when Bank+PC Sync is on, the numbering of programs droplist matches the hardware one (from 0 to 127 or from 128 to 255) based on the section of b000, b001, b002, bROM selected, otherwise it just numbers out programs generically from 0 to 127.
- Tossed the MIDI Port option, as this thing is better handled by MIDI interfaces themself, and could be confusing. On that option slot we are working on a special realtime converter instead, that will transform MIDI notes inputs of other drum machines manufacturers and General MIDI drum parts into Air|JAZ base proper trigging. That will require the "Notes Thru" setting to be ON accordingly.

Version 1.0.3:
- Added kick & snare special in-note tuning function. A list of exact musical notes is available from a new menu in respective sections. Once selected the desired note, proper value updates automatically (they are "PITCH" for kick, "TUNE" for snare).

Version 1.0.2:
- Added JaZ Drive plugin variation which matches additional "Start" parameter for Hi-Hat, Clap, Rim, Crash and Ride pieces and different sample set names.
- Internal value shown now exhibits different ranges of parameters. On lower resolution (example: Kick harmo or pulse), the interactive label updates with the effective change. This is particularly useful editing analogue pieces of the JoMoX hardware units, where the full resolution of 256 steps is actually reduced to 128, 64 or even less. Otherwise, selecting "MIDI" values, a fixed a range of 0-127 is shown.
- To allow faster editing, LFO section pads now trigger the destination piece selected. When editing LFOs, user no longer have to move to the corresponding pad to hear the modulation.
- Automatic Bank switch now updates numbering of kits on the display according to the hardware.
- Added Fader snap option.
- Minor graphic glitches fixed.

Version 1.0.1:
- First official release.
