BPC 60

What it is

Sixteen pads and whatever you feed it. Drop a file on the window and it lands in the bank; cut it by hand, let AUTO find the hits, or chop it into eight or sixteen; send a piece to a pad, across the keys, onto the timeline, or every cut to its own pad on a new track. No time stretch: pitch and length move together, as the machines of the day did, and FIT re-speeds a loop to the song.

The bank: files in, with start, end and loop handles, free or on the grid
CUT, AUTO and CHOP ×8 / ×16, then CUTS → PADS in one move
→ PAD, → KEYS, → TIMELINE, → NEW TRACK
Re-speed and FIT, the sampler's own converter and its disc room as effects

Hear it

The sampler plays what you give it: there is no factory sound to hear, which is the point.

The library

YOURS

Nothing ships in the sampler: its library is yours. Drop a file on the window and it is in the bank.

The other chips

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