Interface layout

Header bar

Area	Function	Notes
Status text	Shows warnings, errors, and missing-file notices	Click warning/error text to copy the message
UNDO / REDO	History navigation	Same as Ctrl/Cmd + Z and Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z
PANIC	Kills active voices immediately	Also stops lazy chop
FILES	Open or close the file browser	Lit while the browser is open. See File browser
SAVE	Save the kit to your preset library	Opens the browser on the new preset with its name ready to edit. See Presets
SET	Popup for theme, UI scale, and NRPN settings	Also shows current plugin version

Sample lane, slice lane, and waveform

Area	Function	Notes
Sample lane	Compact session-sample overview above the slice lane	Reflects selection and zoom; drag to reorder samples; includes per-sample MIDI, STEMS / CANCEL and delete buttons
Slice lane	Compact slice-region overview above the waveform	Reflects selection and zoom
Waveform	Main editing surface	Drag-and-drop loading/appending, slice selection, boundary editing, move/duplicate, preview
Overlay hints	Contextual help and action prompts	Used by ADD, AUTO, and other actions
Playback cursors	Voice-position display	Shows active playheads
Transient preview markers	Auto Chop preview	Dashed markers shown before applying transient split

File browser

Click FILES in the header to open the browser. It takes over everything below the sample lane, so the header and the sample lane stay visible while you browse. Click FILES again or press Esc to go back to the editor. The browser always starts closed, and it remembers the last folder you were in.

The browser has three columns.

Places (left)

Section	What’s there
PRESETS	The default presets folder, plus your custom presets folder if one is set in SET → Presets
LOCATIONS	Home, Desktop, Documents, Music and Downloads
BOOKMARKS	Folders you pinned. Right-click a folder to Add Bookmark; right-click a bookmark to remove it
RECENT	The last 8 folders you added or loaded files from. Right-click one to remove it
DRIVES	Disks and mounted volumes

Files (middle)

Control	Function	Notes
← / → / ↑ / ↻	Back, forward, up one folder, refresh	Refresh also re-reads file details
Path	Click a folder name to jump to it	Click the empty space (or double-click) to type a path
Folder button (right of the path)	Open Files… picks audio or presets with the system dialog; Open Folder… browses to a folder you pick	Audio you open is added to the kit; a preset is loaded
Search	Finds files and folders in this folder and every subfolder	Partial, case-insensitive. / or Ctrl/Cmd + F jumps here; Esc clears it
NAME / LEN / RATE	Click a column header to sort by it; click again to reverse	Folders always stay on top

Presets show a kit icon and their sample count instead of a length. Right-click a preset to Load, Rename (or press F2), Export…, or Export with Samples….

Preview (right)

Shows what’s selected: the file’s waveform, length, sample rate, channels, bit depth and size. For a preset, its samples and whether their audio is embedded. For a folder, its path.

Control	Function	Notes
PLAY / PAUSE	Hear the selected file without adding it	Pausing keeps your place; PLAY continues from there. Plays on the main output at the audition volume
AUTO	Play files automatically as you select them	On by default; remembered
VOL	Audition volume, −24 to +6 dB	Drag or scroll; double-click resets to −6 dB. Remembered
ADD	Add the selected audio to the kit	The default action
LOAD	Replace the kit with the selected audio and return to the editor	Clears the current samples and slices; UNDO brings them back

Files longer than two minutes preview their first two minutes. The audition stops when you add or load, change folder, close the browser, or press PANIC. Previews only play while your DAW is processing audio.

Adding and loading

• Double-click a file, or select it and press Return, to add it to the kit. Adding to an empty kit loads it.
• Shift + double-click or Shift + Return to load instead, replacing the kit and closing the browser.
• Drag files onto the sample lane to add them. Dropping a preset there loads it.
• Select several files (Shift/Ctrl + click, or Shift + arrows) and use ADD or LOAD to act on all of them.
• Adding and loading can both be undone with UNDO.

Keyboard

Key	Action
↑ / ↓	Move through files (previews them when AUTO is on)
Space	Play / pause the selected file’s preview
→	Restart the preview from the top, like a one-shot (never pauses). On a folder, opens it
← / Backspace	Up one folder, landing on the folder you came from
Return / Shift + Return	Add / load the selection
F2	Rename the selected preset
/ or Ctrl/Cmd + F	Search
Esc	Clear the search, then close the browser

On a folder or preset with nothing playing, Space isn’t used by the browser, so it still reaches your DAW (usually its transport).

MIDI export

Each sample in the sample lane has a MIDI button (M when the sample is narrow). Drag it into your DAW to drop a MIDI clip of that sample’s slices, or click it to save a .mid file. Each slice becomes one note on its MIDI key, timed from its position in the sample at the sample’s BPM, so playing the clip back through INTERSECT replays the original pattern. REX2 (.rx2) loops keep their original groove even though their slices carry extra tails.

Stem separation

Each sample in the sample lane has a STEMS button that opens the stem-separation overlay panel for that sample. While a job is running on that sample, the button reads CANCEL.

For an end-to-end walkthrough — picking a model, device, and mode, then running the export — see the dedicated Stem separation page.

Time / zoom bar

Area	Function	Notes
Time ruler	Shows time markings for the current view	Updates with zoom level
Drag horizontally	Scroll	Uses the current zoom level
Drag vertically	Zoom	Anchored to the drag start position

Action bar

Button	Function	Notes
ADD	Toggle draw-slice mode	Drag on the waveform to create a slice
LAZY / STOP	Start/stop real-time lazy chopping	Label changes while active
AUTO	Open/close Auto Chop panel	Requires a selected slice
COPY	Duplicate selected slice	Equivalent to duplicate command
DEL	Delete selected slice or selected sample	Uses the last lane you interacted with
ZX	Snap edits to nearest zero crossing	Toggle
FM	Follow MIDI note selection	Auto-selects the played slice
RESEQ	Resequence slice MIDI notes	Opens overlay with BY POSITION and AS CREATED modes; requires 2+ slices

Signal chain bar

The bottom bar is the main parameter editor. It has four modules: TIME/PITCH, FILTER, AMP, and PLAYBACK.

Collapsed mode (default): SAMPLE and SLICE tabs switch between scopes, with one parameter strip visible at a time. SAMPLE edits the selected sample only: every sample in the session keeps its own settings.

Expanded mode: shows both strips simultaneously — slice on top, sample below — with no tabs. Click the chevron toggle on the right edge of the context bar to switch between modes.

Context bar (bottom edge):

• SLICES count, the sample ROOT note and VOICES (the plugin-wide voice limit) are always visible on the right. The sample ROOT is editable only when no slices exist.
• When a slice is selected: slice sample range, length, a NOTE/RANGE toggle, numeric note controls, read-only note names, and override count.

┌─[ Tab: SAMPLE | SLICE ]─────────[ slice range · length · NOTE/RANGE ]──────[ SLICES: 8  ROOT: C2  VOICES: 16 ]┐
│  TIME/PITCH        │  FILTER             │  AMP               │  PLAYBACK                                  │
│  BPM PITCH ALGO …  │  TYPE CUT RESO …    │  ATK DEC SUS REL … │  REV LOOP FADE MUTE OUT …                  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

General behavior:

• Drag up/down on a value to edit it.
• Double-click a value to type it directly.
• In SLICE mode, editing a field locks that field for the selected slice when it differs from the sample value. The parameter label highlights to show the lock.
• In SLICE mode, clicking a locked field label or right-clicking the field clears that override and re-inherits the sample value.

For each module’s individual controls, see the Controls and shortcuts reference. For the underlying mental model, see Concepts → The inheritance / lock model.