chops.
Drop a folder. Get the good bits.
Chops listens to a folder of audio — tracks, loops, field recordings, anything — finds the interesting moments, and lays them out as vibe-ranked sample pads you can preview, chop, and split into stems for your DAW.
Not a sampler. A sample finder.
It does the boring part — the listening, the tagging, the hunting — so you just grab and go.
Drop & analyze
Scan a folder, decode every file, and run onset / BPM / key / loudness analysis on all of it at once.
Creative chopping
Three strategies — transient onsets, beat-grid loops, phrase regions — merged into one grid of tagged pads.
Prompt the vibe
Type "dusty lo-fi soul, warm rhodes" and chops re-ranks by semantic match using local CLAP embeddings.
I'm Feeling Lucky
Clusters your chops, picks a coherent direction, and names it from a curated vibe list. One click.
Stem breakout
Send any chop to split into drums / bass / vocals / keys. Solo, mute, and take just the layers you want.
Export & drag-out
Export chosen chops and stems as named WAVs, or drag a pad straight into your DAW. Done.
Folder in, samples out.
Four steps, most of them automatic.
Drop
Point Chops at a folder. It decodes and analyzes every file in the background.
Chop
It slices onsets, loops and phrases into a grid of tagged, previewable pads.
Rank
Type a vibe or hit Lucky. The best matches float to the top instantly.
Take
Split to stems, export WAVs, or drag pads straight into your session.
Chops is nearly baked.
It's a squishlabs instrument, so expect it to be a bit weird and sound suspiciously good. Leave your email and we'll ping you the second it drops.
(hooks up to a real list at launch — nothing sent yet)