Pad Bandit is an alternative editor for the Roland SP-404SX, inspired by tools like Bank Robber and Super Pads. It provides quality-of-life improvements to the original Wave Converter workflow, including drag and drop, file tree previews, waveform editing, and incremental sync.
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- 🎛️ Pad management — Move and swap pads, or whole banks, using drag & drop.
- 📁 File browser — Choose your own root folders, preview audio files, and drag them directly onto pads. Select several to fill consecutive pads at once.
- 🌊 Waveform editor — Visually adjust the start and end points of the selected pad.
- ⚙️ Pad settings — Edit parameters such as Lo-Fi, Gate, Loop, and Volume.
- 🔄 Incremental sync — Only modified pads are synchronized instead of rewriting the entire bank.
- 💾 Projects — Save and restore complete pad-bank setups for easy recall and reuse.
- 🎵 Audio formats — Reads
wav,aif/aiff,mp3,flacandogg, converted to the card's own WAV format on sync.
See Releases for Windows and macOS builds.
Pad Bandit is an independent, non-commercial project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Roland Corporation.
Roland and SP-404SX are trademarks of their respective owners. Pad Bandit is provided as-is and should be used with appropriate backups of your samples and SD cards.