Rando

Such a cool and creative idea! I can finally put all my 1000s of samples that I've collected over the years to good use. Really inspiring way to use or re-use the massive amount of samples in your library in an accessible and creative way that inspires new ideas. Can't recommend enough.

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.