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The running plugin -- every area is detailed below.

IMPORT loads a loop -- you can also drag & drop an audio file (wav/aiff/flac/mp3/ogg) straight onto the waveform, or double-click the empty view to browse. The waveform draws the chop markers over the audio.

The < 16 / 16 > pager shifts the note-to-chop mapping by 16 chops per click -- the CHOPS +N readout shows the current offset. With many chops (and variation rows) this pages which slices the keys and pads trigger.

The waveform is a full editor: click a chop section to select it (drives the FX rack and the pattern-editor brush), drag a slice marker to move the boundary live, wheel zooms horizontally around the cursor and drag pans while zoomed. Hovering a chop pops an info box with its number, trigger note and FX chain.

Right-click a chop for its menu: the FX rack submenu routes just that chop through rack lane 1-16 (each lane owns a full effect chain -- the combo above the rack picks which one you're editing), Add marker here splits the slice, Remove marker merges it with its neighbour, and Delete slice drops the chop entirely.

The + button (top-right) adds a variation row: an alternate re-chop of the same loop, rendered deterministic so it survives save/restore. Every row has its own S (sensitivity) and MS (min slice ms) knobs that re-slice just that row, R re-rolls the variation's seed, /\ and \/ move it up/down the stack, and X removes it. Variations extend the global chop list -- original slices first, then each row's slices -- so pads and keys address them like any other chop.

The sample list holds the loaded slots; the keyboard triggers slices left-to-right. Right-click a slot for Load to slicer, Show in folder and Delete (your own imports).

Switch to FX -- reorderable slots, per-slot RDM, and the combo at the top picks which channel's chain you're editing.

RND CHAIN / RND FX / RND PRM re-roll the chain -- every roll is filed as an rnd-* preset entry.

Back to SMP.

Switch to PADS: a 16x16 matrix of 256 little pads -- 16 groups of 16 -- each latching its pattern; mono, one pad at a time. On sample load every empty pad is auto-filled with a different library pattern, so the matrix is playable immediately. A pad shows its number, a mini tick-map of its hits, and a bank corner-tick. The Q button picks the switch quantize: Q:BAR latches on the next bar, Q:BT on the next beat, Q:NW jumps instantly -- stratus-style. Notes 96-111 latch the 16 pads of the selected pad's group from MIDI -- select a group, and a 4x4 controller addresses all 256 sixteen at a time; the countdown bar on a pad shows the wait to the boundary. While a pad plays, click its bottom progress strip to jump the playhead to that step. Right-click a pad for its Bank: by default every pad plays the live sliced loop (GLOBAL), but SNAPSHOT current stores the loaded sample+slices as a new bank -- load another loop, snapshot again, and pads can run different breaks at once. The pad menu also offers Play/Stop, Randomize, GEN pad (a library combo just for this pad), Copy / Paste / Clear, All off (stops every pad), GEN ALL to fill empty pads and RE-GEN ALL to regenerate the whole matrix. The KEY:CHOP/KEY:PAT button next to the tabs picks what notes do: CHOP = notes play slices (pads stay on 96-111), PAT = every note latches a pad (note 0-127 -> pad 1-128), so the whole keyboard becomes a pattern launch grid.

PATTERN mode is the breakchop-style grid: one row per lane (P1..P16 on the left, each playing the chop number on its label), one column per step -- a step can hit several rows at once. Left-click toggles a cell, right-click cycles drill subdivisions 0-2-3-4-6-8-A, drag up/down sets velocity, drag left/right sets probability, wheel trims velocity. Wheel on a row label (or the chop strip at the bottom, or the slice you click on the waveform) reassigns the row's chop; right-click a row label opens a menu with an Assign chop submenu, Clear row and Mute row (unassign).

SHFL swing, HUM humanize and SUB subdivide are stored per pattern. AUTO makes the subdivider read each chop's length -- short chops rattle into drill rolls that fill the step, long chops play once. DIV sets the step division, LEN the length. FIL and CHA drive the smart randomizer: rows are classified by slice length (long = kicks on beats, mid = snares on backbeats, short = hats on offbeats) and chaos blends in pure random. LIB opens the MIDI drum-pattern library -- 90+ proven patterns: classic breaks, DnB, house, techno, UKG, trap, drill, jazz, latin, IDM and more, mapped onto the rows by detected drum type. EVO mutates the loaded pattern (intensity = CHA). RND-MX re-generates the whole 256-pad matrix from the library: each pad gets a proven base pattern, often fused with a second one (overlay or appended), a light mutation pass, and a length snapped to the 4-128 step grid. RND/CPY/PST/CLR manage the pattern. Row labels show the slicer's drum-category guess (K=kick S=snare H=hat O=open hat R=rim X=crash T=tom P=perc) -- every slice is spectrally analysed when it is cut.

Back to SLICER.

IMPORT -- load your own loop into a slot.

< 16 / 16 > -- chop-offset paging: shifts which chop the first key plays, 16 chops per click.

CHOPS label -- readout of the current chop offset.

Waveform -- the chopped loop with slice markers; scrolls vertically through rows.

SMP / FX -- right-panel tabs: the sample list or the shared FX rack.

RACK combo -- picks which channel's FX chain the rack edits (master or a rack lane).

Sample list -- the loaded slots.

THEME -- cycle the palette.

UNLOCK -- licence / activation dialog; turns into REGISTERED once activated.

ABOUT -- version and credits.

Keyboard -- triggers slices left-to-right.

Vizu + VU -- the animated visualizer and output meter top-left.

Every FX-rack randomize is filed as an rnd-* entry; double-click to recall, R renames, X deletes.

LFO LINK then click any control for live modulation.

Control panel: I/O, filter, EQ, comp, limiter and the preset browser. ? opens this manual.

VU meter -- stereo output level with peak hold, sitting under the visualizer. It mirrors what leaves the plugin after the master chain -- keep peaks out of the red.

I/O panel -- GAIN input trim and VOLUME master out bracket the post chain: multimode MODE / CUTOFF / RESO filter, LOW / MID / HIGH EQ, comp THRESH / RATIO / KNEE and limiter THRESH / RELEASE. The preset browser below has search, SAVE, theme cycling and ? (this manual).

FX rack -- serial effect slots on the summed output. + ADD opens the effect menu, CLEAR empties the chain, ^ / v reorders slots; each slot has BYPASS, RDM (random params) and X. Rack randomizers: RND CHAIN builds a fresh chain, RND FX appends one effect, RND PRM re-rolls every slot's parameters.