Compact aggressive live sampler — slice it, pitch it, stack five in a Combinator.
Splitfire Furioso is a 2U live sampler designed around one idea: accept hard constraints, design for stacking. Three voices, sixteen slices, roughly four seconds of buffer, tape-only playback. Five instances fit in 10 rack units and use less RAM than a single full-sized sampler.
The device plays back captured audio two ways. Slice mode maps one slice per key from a settable root — each note triggers its own slice of the recording. Pitch mode plays the whole sample pitched across the keyboard, with start and end knobs defining the playable region. Slicing is automatic (transient detection) or manual (equal divisions, 1–16), and either can be overridden in real time via the cv_slices CV input.
Twenty CV inputs make every musical parameter externally drivable: speed, envelope, loop length, stutter rate and window, pitch region, slice count and selection, plus gates for record, clear, mute, and stutter engage. Two CV outputs (current slice count, playhead position) make self-syncing patches straightforward. Per-voice direct outputs route each voice to its own mixer channel for parallel processing.
The voice machinery is click-free across every combination of voice mode, play mode, and loop mode. Recording over actively-playing voices is safe — voices continue through an atomic buffer swap protected by a per-voice fade-in. Unforgiving CV abuse produces musically useful chaos rather than digital noise.
Built on the same live-record-into-buffer engine as the LooLoo family, specialized for compact stacking instead of single-track loop performance.
