Sampler

One-shot samples on the pads — horns, vocal stabs, drum hits, whatever you load. On the Rane One it's the fourth mode button, printed SAMPLER.

Pads and banks

• 8 pads × 4 banks per deck.
• Per-pad gain, plus a master sampler level on the hardware.
• Samples live in your Samples folder (~/Music/Skratch Attach/Samples on Mac; the app's Music folder on iOS). Shift + hold an on-screen pad opens the sample browser for that pad.

Multi-sample pads

Assign several samples to one pad and it cycles through them — sequential or random — so a repeated hit doesn't sound machine-gun identical.

Choke groups

Samples whose filenames end in _CG1 (choke group 1) cut each other off: trigger one and any other playing sample in the same group stops. Classic use: open and closed hi-hats.

Sample capture: record hits straight off a deck

Don't have the sample as a file? Grab it live:

1. In the sample browser, use the pinned Record row (or open the sample editor). The editor has two stages: Capture and Edit.
2. Record the sound you want straight from a playing deck.
3. In Edit: zoom and scroll the waveform, drag the start and end markers around the hit, shape the attack/fade envelope, and give it a name.
4. Assign it to a pad. Done — it's saved into your Samples folder.

CHOP: slice a break across the pads

Captured a drum break? CHOP splits it across the pads so you can finger-drum it:

• Auto slice detection finds the hits; a sensitivity dial controls how eagerly it slices.
• Add or move manual slices — they survive re-running auto-detection.
• Tap a slice cell, then a pad, to assign it.
• Per-pad attack/fade and choke groups work here too.
• Takes let you keep several captures in one session and chop the best one.

Sharing kits

Built a kit you like? Right-click a folder in the sample browser:

• Export Kit — packages the pad layout into a .skratchkit file.
• Export With Sources — includes the audio files, for sharing with someone who doesn't have your samples.
• The browser's pinned Import Kit row loads a .skratchkit someone sent you.

Settings

Settings → Pad Modes → Sampler includes a thump-reduction toggle that softens the low-end bump on hard pad hits.

Secondary mode

Pressing SAMPLER again while the Sampler is active switches to Stems.