| Operating System | Latest Version |
|---|---|
| 1.3.0 | |
| System Requirements Windows 10 64-bit Intel systems or newer. | |
| 1.3.1 | |
| System Requirements MacOS 10.15 Intel or Apple Silicon | |
Rando brings a fresh perspective on your sample library, helping you to stop using the same old samples or folders.
Point Rando to every folder where you keep samples, and click the huge 'Rando' button to let the fun begin! Rando places samples across your keyboard, letting you play your library and find sounds and combinations that work. You can lock samples and re-randomize to keep the flow going.
Thanks to Rando's advanced search, you can filter samples by Type, Category, Loop/One-Shot, and even use a text search to specify certain sounds you'd like to have at your fingertips.
Rando provides all the sampling controls you'd expect, plus some options you may not have seen before:
Rando's sequencer lets you come up with and control note selection. Run up to 64 steps, with Note, Velocity and Length for each. The sequencer can be randomized intelligently, and you can introduce gaps in the pattern with the Spaces control, which is also tied to your modwheel.
There's Swing, MIDI transpose, sample auditioning, DAW sync, and preset saving in addition. You can also export MIDI from the sequencer for use in your DAW.
Add processing to your global output with Chorus, Filter, Delay, Bitcrushing, Distortion and Reverb effects. Each has its own X/Y pad to customize an effect, plus a selector for effect type.
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This musical randomizer... is what?
It is a few things, all quite interesting and inspiring-- a magic random sampler, sequencer, effects unit, advanced indexer with text search, and its a musical and rhythmic secret weapon. Per note effects, lock to key, ADSR, and modulation, and standard sampler features such as note latching, "magic" looping (auto alignment with your DAW), lock notes, mono mode.
I fed close to 400,000 samples into this thing (just aimed my entire existing library locations at it -- (looking at you Triaz)) and within seconds Rando had indexed them all. I prepared for a 10+ minute long wait, but this was done within 5 minutes. Most plugins and instruments I own, which do a 1-time indexing process, take much, much longer to do this process. Rando also has the ability to hold multiple sample locations, and to iterate from them independently.
Once Rando mapped a batch of samples to the keyboard, I started to play and realized... there was an intelligence to the mapping system under the hood, and there are a lot of interesting sound and rhythmic possibilities. The onboard 64 step sequencer has a decent standard feature set including swing time, note on/off, the ability to load musical or rhythmic sounds, sequence transpose, etc.
Had to edit this: Rando can map out long loops, short loops, 1shots effortlessly, and the long loops match tempo or key at will. You can make a giant hybrid sampler channel on your DAW and play melody, harmony, bass, percussion, etc, all in one interface!! lmao this thing is great!.
The "randomize" button, on many other plugins can be a mixed bag. Sometimes randomize features make a lot of noisy crap and very occasionally find some synergistic sounds, but Rando seems to reduce the amount of crap and elevate the amount of useful sound palettes that occur from randomization, and I very much enjoy it.
And all of this is still being actively developed, with the dev building new features and killing bugs at the same diligent level they supported their wonderful product Rewind (the always on tape machine) after release. I have strong confidence in this developer, and am very much loving putting this new product in all my projects. Thanks Dennis.
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