Chop Sampler User Guide

Welcome to the Chop Sampler guide. Chop is a beat maker built on drum pads: load a kit, tap the pads, and you have a beat. These pages explain every part of the app, from your first tap to exporting a finished song.

Start here

• Getting Started: a tour of the screen, tabs, banks, transport, status bar and the Chop menu.
• Chop School: guided in-app lessons and the Quick Tour.

Playing and sound

• Pads: play modes, levels, pitch, pan, mute and solo, choke groups, linked pads, drag to copy, swap and delete, multi-select, note repeat.
• Sampling and Editing: recording, the sample editor, chopping, stem separation.
• Browse: samples, kits, favorites, memory.
• Synths: synth pads, the editor, presets, arpeggiator, and every synth.
• Effects: effect slots, buses and master, presets, and every effect.
• Pad Modes: TUNE, SCALES, CHORDS, PROGRESS., VELOCITY, KEYBOARD and NOTES pad modes.

Making tracks

• Sequencer: recording, editing tools, snap and quantize, tempo, swing, metronome, automation.
• Piano Roll: editing melodies by pitch, MIDI import onto a pad.
• Song Mode: chaining sequences, the arranger, looping a section.
• Looper: live loop recording from the mic.
• Mixer: channels, buses, master, meters, fader groups, sidechain.
• Flatten and Resources: CPU / MEM / DSP, flattening pads and sequences, FLUSH and FREE MEM.

Files, gear and setup

• Projects and Export: saving, kits, backups, exporting songs and stems.
• MIDI: controllers, MIDI learn, MIDI out, sync, control surfaces, MIDI files.
• Settings: every setting explained.
• Store: what's free and what's premium.
• Troubleshooting: crackles, lag, memory, MIDI, bug reports and support.