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Chopping & slicing

Slice a phrase into pads, and decide per hit how far each drifts from the original.

Classic chopping rearranges the same handful of hits over and over. DreamSampler gives you new material to chop, not just new orders to chop it in. Load a phrase; the buffer keeps regenerating underneath as you adjust controls, so you have endless material to explore.

How to do it

  1. 1Add DreamSampler to an instrument track, click Connect, and feed a phrase as the source.
  2. 2In Slice mode, choose a Slice By method — Transient, Beat, Region, or Manual.
  3. 3For hand-cut control, use Manual: double-click a slice to split at the click, double-click a marker to merge.
  4. 4Move Strength, Structure, and Timbre to steer how far each pad's audio drifts from the original.
  5. 5Trigger pads from the grid, keyboard, or MIDI (from C1) and rearrange them into a pattern.
  6. 6Record your chop, or drag pads into your DAW.

Tips

Endless source
The buffer regenerates as you play — never just a fixed set of hits.
Per-hit drift
Steer how far each slice moves from the original as you rearrange it.
Slice like any sampler
Once it's chopped, reorder, re-pitch, and layer the pads however you like.