Chop-R by Lobith Audio. Grid based Beat chopping.

[kraster]

https://www.lobith-audio.com/chop-r/

I just got this new chopping plugin.

I'm a big fan of grid based chopping and beat shuffling and this hits the mark in many ways.

You drop an audio file into the browser window. Set the start and end points and either let the plugin guess the amount of beats and slices or enter them yourself. You can sync the loop to the project tempo.

The interesting part is the chopping. It uses various different algorithms to chop up loops with many of them having some kind of musical aspect. For example, the "EDM" chop style keeps a prominent four to the floor downbeat feel or Smooth tends to use more consecutive slices.

You can also manually edit slices with sliders and you can copy and paste multiple sliders.

You also can have multiple different chops that can be triggered by midi notes.

There are a few effects like a filter, distortion and eq.

It's a pretty neat chopper all around.

[pekbro]

I like it and plan to pick it up before my trial runs out. it's very to the point and super efficient imo.

doh: too late bought it

[VariKusBrainZ]

Nice if you dont have a DAW thats does this natively like Live or Bitwig

[Morty-C-137]

Nice if you dont have a DAW thats does this natively like Live or Bitwig

Or Logic Pro

[nordickvr]

Need to “phone home” once authorized?

[kraster]

Nice if you dont have a DAW thats does this natively like Live or Bitwig

I have both and I still think it's useful.

I think the selling point is the actual shuffling algorithms. They're all quite musical. They seems a lot more useful than something like Loopmix which can be quite random. Ableton's Buffer shuffler is also a bit hit and miss.

Also being able to trim the sample into a loop from the plugin is great. It's amazing how many beat chopping vsts don't include this. So many breaks or pieces of music need trimming before chopping and that aspect is kind of a PITA even in Live.

With Chop-r you can drop a sample in set the start and end braces hit sync and away you go!

Also building up banks of different chopped sequences is great.

One thing I'd like to see is the ability to tweaks the slices manually while maintaining their position in the sequence.

A lot of breaks, for example have hits that are outside the grid within a measure. This is often desirable but often not. Particularly if the grid line intersects a drum hit and you get a click.

[kraster]

Need to “phone home” once authorized?

I'm not sure but I don't think so.

I just entered a serial and it authorised the plugin.

But don't quote me on that!

[audiojunkie]

This looks like exactly what I want. Please consider supporting Linux. We Linux users want to buy stuff like this too.

[pekbro]

lol, I didn’t even notice the effects section in this.

[218]

What am I missing here? On their site its being sold with intro offer but their youtube vids is a year old?

[TheMaestro]

What am I missing here? On their site its being sold with intro offer but their youtube vids is a year old?

Video is a pre-release. Say so right there in the description.

[218]

What am I missing here? On their site its being sold with intro offer but their youtube vids is a year old?

Video is a pre-release. Say so right there in the description.

No, not in the Amen break vid I was watching But your right about the other vid. Anyways, looks like a nifty plug; straight to the point and not bloated with functions

[Touch The Universe]

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[lobith]

Need to “phone home” once authorized?

Yes, it does phone home once a day. But if it doesn't reach home, it will continue to play.
This is, because you can have up to three active machines, and when you need it on another one, you have to deactivate one machine.
It phones home to check, if it wasn't deactivated in the meantime.

Full disclosure: we increment an anonymous counter on each phone call.

[nordickvr]

Need to “phone home” once authorized?

Yes, it does phone home once a day. But if it doesn't reach home, it will continue to play.
This is, because you can have up to three active machines, and when you need it on another one, you have to deactivate one machine.
It phones home to check, if it wasn't deactivated in the meantime.

Full disclosure: we increment an anonymous counter on each phone call.

Thank you!
Really wish that all devs would be as straightforward and transparent about copy protection.