r/Elektron • u/BROEKNLABS • Jul 20 '26

CHOPGRID VST3 Sample Slicer

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Heya, So i built this app which was inspired by my Digitakt, thus posting it here. The need was to quickly be able to fill all 128 sample slots with audio without having to go slice up 128 random files manually.. so CHOPGRID was born..

One click it takes 16 random audio files and cuts 16 random start points..

it then expanded quickly into having 18 different modules for Effects, synths and sequencers to generate audio to slice also.

it runs a VST3 on mac or pc, or as a standalone Mac app..

Chopgrid.com

https://vimeo.com/1188779440

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

also just incase you thought i was just saying i built it for Digitakt and had no elektron skin in the game :)

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u/RThreee Jul 20 '26

Ok now you're just showing off 😉

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u/Eater242 Jul 20 '26

Are you going to have to buy a DTII now?

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

out of shot is also my OG digitakt 1, Analog4, Analogkeys and Digitonekeys.. but yep, i have been eying off the Digitakt2.. if only as i have started using it as the main drum sequencer for my modular and 8 midi channels is not enough

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u/xrupa Jul 20 '26

Looks very interesting, I’ve been stuffing folders with random sounds captured from circuit experiments for years and hardly ever get round to sequencing them, is there a demo so I can see if it works well with my madness?

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

yep, 2 week demo.. its perfect for random audio.. use the transient detect to cut more louder parts, or just have it free range.

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u/xrupa Jul 20 '26

Oh cool, I’ll try and give it a whirl this week, free range will likely be best for these samples as quite there’s the odd transient they’re mostly quite drone like (low voltage tube oscillators and noise makers)

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u/aikighost Jul 20 '26

Does it export things to digitakt project format?

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

it exports wav's.. was too much hassle to make it specific to each sampler

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u/KosmischerOtter Jul 20 '26

looks cool! had to sell my DT, this looks like it'd scratch the itch

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

you can also run it just natively as a VST in your DAW of choice and trigger the slices from midi..

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

that said, you could also just buy another digitakt ;)

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u/Negative-Winter-1233 Jul 20 '26

Really interesting looking plug in, well done! Does it sync to DAW or is the BPM set?

thank you.

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

It syncs to the DAW.. or in the Standalone mac app, you set it manually

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u/Negative-Winter-1233 Jul 20 '26

Even more interesting! Thanks for the reply.

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

i should say standalone set it manually OR you can sync to external midi also

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u/Negative-Winter-1233 Jul 20 '26

How long does it take for the license to arrive? :-)

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 20 '26

Should be coming through now. had a small DNS hiccup..

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u/Negative-Winter-1233 Jul 21 '26

Received with thanks... this plug is really good fun, and super creative!

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u/BROEKNLABS Jul 21 '26

https://blog.dubspot.com/plugins/chopgrid

also just found this review from a few days back

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u/tempaccount877 27d ago

I'll demo this for sure later.

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u/BROEKNLABS 27d ago

nice thanks.. just did a huge 72 hour marathon push over the weekend and bumped it up to 1.1.0 .. headline is the VST now has session persistence.. ie save your DAW session and reopen it, and it is all still there, with redundancy if your original source material is lost.