Up to sixteen sources, folded into one sound that exists in none of them.

Mandoline

A chop engine. Load a loop or a vocal; it finds the hits, reads the key, and deals them into a pattern locked to your tempo. A seed decides the pattern — same seed, same pattern, every time.

Drop audio on the window. Press play. Scroll down on the seed for a new pattern, up to go back. Drag any slice from the top strip onto any step in the bottom strip to place it by hand, then drag the MIDI or WAV handle into your arrangement.

Cut. Repeat. Cut again.

We believe it is in the public interest to release experimental instruments that push what audio can be.

Some of these tools are unstable by design. Some will do things to a signal that were not meant to be done. We release them anyway, in the open, without tiers or gatekeeping, because the interesting work in sound has always started where the safe tools stop.

Then the machine.

Mandoline Lite Mandoline Lite Mandoline Lite

Four slices instead of sixteen. One pattern. No time limit, no email.

{{ v.name }}

{{ v.lede }}

{{ v.body }}

{{ v.quote }}

{{ v.plateLine }}

Eight cuts,
no editing

Transient detection with two controls. Drag a wav in and it is already chopped.

Sixteen steps,
four orders

Per-step slice, pitch, reverse and mute. Six divisions down to 1/32.

Repeatable
accidents

Every roll is a number. Save the number, keep the chop forever.