Make a new song from a slice of sound

Start with the moment that catches your ear. Sample lets you use a slice of audio inside a new track, so a short rhythm, a sung phrase or a texture you recorded can become the seed for a different song. Choose a song from its menu and select a region on the waveform. If the sound is already on your device, drop audio onto the create form when you see “Drop here to sample.” You can also upload or record your own audio, then choose the section you want to carry forward. The focus stays on the slice: the few seconds with the pulse, tone or surprise that made you stop and listen. Pick that moment, bring it into the create flow and decide how it should live in the next track. A sample does not need to explain the whole source. It only needs to hold the part you want to hear again in a new setting.

Chop slices and rearranges your sample throughout the song. Choose it when repetition, movement and new placement are the point. The selected audio can return in pieces across the track, with the character of the source guiding the idea. Chop takes one sample, which keeps the choice centered on the exact slice you picked.

As-is places the sample in the song with no added instrumentation on top. The original passage stays clear when it appears. Use As-is when the selected audio already has the shape, space or impact you want to hear inside the new track.

Blend mixes your sample with other instruments. Choose it when you want the source audio to meet new musical material instead of sitting by itself. The sample becomes part of the song while the surrounding instruments give it another setting.

These modes open three distinct directions from the same source. Chop rearranges the slice throughout the song. As-is keeps added instrumentation off the sample. Blend mixes the sample with other instruments. Pick the mode that matches what made the slice interesting in the first place, then create from there.

The Keep pitch and speed toggle controls whether the sample holds on to its original motion. Turn it on to keep the original pitch and speed. The slice stays anchored to the sound you selected, a strong choice when its exact tone and pacing are central to the idea. Turn it off to let pitch and speed change to fit the track. That gives the sample room to move with the new song instead of holding to its starting form.

Choose Chop, As-is or Blend, then decide whether the sample should hold its pitch and speed or adapt to the track. Those choices let you protect the detail that made the source compelling or push the slice toward a different musical role. A change in speed can change the feel of a phrase. Keeping both settings locked can preserve the timing and tone that made you choose it.

Sampling with Sample follows a hands-on ritual: pick audio, select the slice, choose Chop, As-is or Blend, then create. The entry point can change. Open a song’s menu to sample it. Select a region directly on the waveform. Or drag audio into the create form and follow the “Drop here to sample” cue. Each path brings you to the same creative decision about which part of the audio belongs in a new track.

Once the region is set, focus on what makes it work. It might be the rhythm, the contour of a voice or the grain of a recorded sound. Chop can slice and rearrange that energy throughout the song. As-is can place the source into the song with no added instrumentation on top. Blend can mix it with other instruments. Keep pitch and speed when the original feel matters, or let both change to fit the track. The ritual begins with a precise selection and ends with a new song shaped by that choice. Start with one sound worth following and give it a new musical path.