CHOP MACHINE

Fill all eight slots in one go. Point the Fill Machine at a folder and it rolls a random sample for each slot, narrowed by search words if you like. Roll again until the set clicks, then hit Fill.

Or start from one sample: spread its start points across the slots, or split the file into separate pieces, one per slot, each cut at a zero crossing. It works while the pattern plays, and with SYNC on the new sounds land together on the next bar.

Pick a rate anywhere from 1/4 to 1/32, triplets included, and a motion shape (ramp, triangle, sine, random and more) to set how the pattern travels through your slots. Amplitude decides how far it roams.

Then add some groove with articulation: SKIP drops steps, REPEAT turns them into rolls, and HOLD lets a sound ring out.

Once playback and motion have the groove where you want it, chaos goes on top. A little of it adds musical pitch moves (octaves, fifths, fourths) plus accents and ghost notes. Push it further for envelope changes, reversed hits and wider intervals, and near the top it gets deliberately weird.

Every result is seeded, so when you find something you love, it comes back note for note. Turn the knob back down and everything is right where you left it.

When the pattern is almost there, take over. Click a step to pin it, click another slot's lane to move it there, or drag across the scope to pin a whole run. Click the rail under a step to silence it. Your edits stay put even with chaos cranked, and Clear Edits hands the pattern back to the algorithm whenever you like.

Eight scene pads each save the whole instrument. Arm SYNC and every switch waits for the top of the loop, so you can build a progression and perform it live without missing a beat.

MIDI notes 48 to 55 recall them too, so a clip in your DAW can play the progression. In the Standalone, the number keys 1 to 8 do the same.