Reference
Glossary
The words Chop and this guide use, with what they mean.
| Automation | A control that moves by itself during the song, following a curve you drew or recorded. Automate a parameter |
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| Bars | The length of a track's pattern, and the number of bars its sample is fitted to. A box in the Playback group. Tempo, bars and timing |
| Block | One place in a pattern where a slice plays: a box in the lane under the waveform. One slice can have many blocks. Slices and blocks |
| Bottom panel | The knobs at the bottom of the Sample screen: Slices, Selected Slices, Roll. |
| Bypass | An effect switched off but left in its slot. |
| CC | Control change: the MIDI message a knob or fader of a controller sends. |
| Chop | To cut a sample into slices. |
| Cursor | The place on the Multitrack ruler where Play starts. Start from another bar |
| Edited | The word at the right of the lane when the pattern is no longer the original order of the slices. |
| Envelope | How the level of a slice changes while it plays: Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release. Change one slice |
| Fit | A key of the Playback group. On: the sample follows the tempo and the bars. Off: it plays at its original speed. |
| Grid | The step things snap to. The toolbar's Grid is for moving blocks, parts and points; the menu beside Chop grid is for cutting and for rolls. |
| Insert | An effect placed on one strip of the mixer, in one of its four slots. Use VST3 effects |
| Lane | The strip of blocks under the waveform; also the strip where automation is drawn. |
| Loop (toolbar) | On: playback repeats. Off: it plays once. |
| Loop (Sample screen) | A key of the Playback group: repeats the selected slice. |
| Loop range | The bars the song repeats over, drawn on the strip above the Multitrack ruler. |
| MIDI Learn | Linking a control of Chop to a knob or fader of a controller. Map a control |
| Mono / Poly | Whether a new block cuts the one before it (Mono) or rings over it (Poly). |
| Normalize | Raising a sample to full level. |
| One-shot | A sample played at its original speed, not fitted to bars: a hit, a note, a phrase. |
| Page | A view that takes the place of the screen: settings, MIDI Mappings, VST3 Plugins, import, record. |
| Part | One play of a track's pattern, placed on the Multitrack timeline. What a part is |
| Part markers | Two triangles in the ruler above the waveform: where a pattern's parts start and end in the song. |
| Pattern | The blocks of a track in their order: what the track plays. Chop's menus call it the sequence. |
| Placement | Place: grid or Place: free. Whether blocks and cuts snap to the grid. |
| Playhead | The line that moves while something plays. |
| Read / Write (R / W) | The keys on a Multitrack row that make automation play (R) or play and be edited (W). |
| Region | In older projects only: the part of a sample that plays. New projects use the whole sample. |
| Resample | To render a track through its effects into a new sample. Resample a track |
| Return | A mixer strip that holds an effect shared by several tracks through their sends. |
| Roll | A block that repeats the start of its slice. Make a roll |
| Sample | The audio a track holds: one file, or a piece of one. |
| Selected Slices | The group of the bottom panel whose knobs change only the selected blocks. |
| Send | A knob that copies part of a track to a return. |
| Sequence | Chop's name for a pattern. The automatic sequence is the original order of the slices. |
| Slice | A piece of the sample between two cuts, with a number. Chop a sample into slices |
| Slices (group) | The group of the bottom panel whose knobs change the selected slice wherever it plays. |
| Slot | One of the four places for an effect on a mixer strip. |
| Snap to zero crossings | The magnet key: cuts land where the wave crosses zero, to avoid clicks. |
| Stem | An exported file with one track of the song. |
| Strip | One column of the Mixer: a track, a return or the master. |
| Swing | A delay on every second step, for a shuffle. Add swing |
| Take | One recording made on the record page. |
| Timing | How a sample follows the tempo: Stretch, Varispeed, Beats or Original. |
| Tool row | The row of keys just above the waveform. |
| Top panel | The track's settings at the top of the Sample screen: Playback, Sound, Envelope, Filter, Inserts / Sends. |
| Track | One of the eight players. It holds one sample. |
| Transient | The start of a hit in the audio, where Chop transients cuts. |
| Variation | One of the four patterns (A to D) of a track. Variations A to D |
| VST3 | The plugin format Chop loads, for effects. |