Pathfinder

Pathfinder — free particle-map sampler by Audio Tech Hub.

Turn your sample folder into an instrument.

Pathfinder scans any folder of one-shots and scatters every sound into a 3D particle field — auto-categorized, key-detected, and ready to explore. Hover to preview sounds tempo-synced and pitch-corrected to your project key. Then draw a path through the field: the sounds you cross become a playable instrument that walks its path locked to your host tempo, or stacks as a chord in Layer mode. No two folders make the same map, and no two paths make the same instrument.

Features:

• Particle map — drop in any folder of one-shots; every sample becomes a sphere, sorted into kick, snare, hat, perc, melodic, texture, vox and FX categories.
• Draw, lasso or randomize paths through your sounds and play them from MIDI, tempo-locked and pitch-corrected to your project key and scale.
• Layer mode — one key plays your whole captured group as an instant stack.
• Explode — slice any sample into tempo-synced chunks scattered back onto the map.
• Step sequencer with per-lane sounds, swing and nudge.
• Deep sound editor — trim, envelope, pitch and volume per sound, plus a chromatic pitch-tracked keyboard for any sphere.
• Five-effect chain — Reverb, Degrade, Flair, Delay and a tempo-synced Granular engine, with drag-to-reorder and full parameter pages.
• Presets that remember everything — paths, sequencer, effects, categories and settings.
• MIDI CC learn, scalable interface, built-in walkthrough.
• Format: Windows VST3 (64-bit) — macOS Universal (ARM64+x86).