Kit Manager

Kit Manager gives you full control of your Roland SPD-SX from your Mac or iPhone. Build kits, edit waves, wire up pads, put together setlists, and back up the whole device.

Connect the pad via USB and everything on it is right in front of you: kits, waves, chains, system settings. No menu-diving required.

Kits and pads

Create new kits or edit existing ones. Rename them, set tempo and output level, reorder slots, copy and paste to build variations. For each of the 25 pads you get the full parameter set: wave assignment, level, pan, play mode, MIDI output, pad linking. Everything the device supports, laid out so you can actually find it.

Wave library

Browse every wave on your SPD-SX, rename them to something you'll actually remember, and delete the ones taking up space. Export waves directly off the device when you need them elsewhere.

Kit chains

Build all 8 kit chains with up to 20 steps each. You see kit names instead of slot numbers, so building a setlist actually makes sense. Drag to reorder, add and remove steps, enable and activate chains on the fly.

Backup and restore

Back up your entire SPD-SX to a folder on your Mac or iPhone. Restore from any backup when you need to roll back or move your setup to another device. You can also open and edit a backup directly, so you can configure kits, chains, and system settings without the device in front of you, then restore when you are ready.

System settings

The SPD-SX has a lot of global settings buried across its menu system. Kit Manager puts them all on one screen: display, MIDI, audio output, foot switches, pad sensitivity, V-Link, metronome, master FX. Change what you need and move on.

Demo mode

Not near your SPD-SX? The app ships with sample data so you can explore everything before you plug in.

Drag & drop — drop WAVs straight onto a pad to import and assign in one step, or drop a batch into the wave library. Files that aren't 44.1 kHz / 16-bit are converted automatically.

Wave panel — browse, search, and audition your waves beside any screen, and drag them onto pads without leaving the kit you're editing.

Edits made on the SPD-SX are kept — saving a pad or kit in Kit Manager no longer undoes changes you made on the pad itself. The app now saves only the settings you change and reloads when the SPD-SX is reconnected. Since the SPD-SX only keeps on-pad edits when you turn it off with the power button, the connect screen now reminds you to power off before connecting.

Kit Chain editing now warns before you navigate away with unsaved changes, and Restore from Backup asks for confirmation before replacing the card.

Performance & reliability — the wave library no longer stalls when scrolling right after connecting, imported waves show the correct format and compatibility status, and a range of wave-management edge cases around deleting, duplicating, and compacting were fixed.