2U compact aggressive live sampler — three voices, sixteen slices, designed to be stacked.
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The Splitfire family
A family of live samplers for Reason. Capture short audio in one button press, then play it back as a sliced instrument or a pitched sample across the keyboard. One sampler DNA, two devices — one expressive, one compact and aggressive.
// The story
Two siblings, one sampler DNA
The Splitfire family started from a familiar problem: live sampling devices in Reason tend to pick one ambition and serve it. A big expressive flagship, generous with voices and memory and engines, designed for a producer working on a single delicate phrase. Or a small percussive sample player, fast but limited. Doodov wanted both — not by compromising one of them, but by designing them as siblings on top of a shared sampler core.
That shared core does the hard work: voice allocation, click-free retriggering across every voice and play mode combination, transient-detection slicing, recording-over-playing without glitches, a rich CV-driven control surface. Once that core is correct, each Splitfire device shapes it for a different ambition.
Splitfire Rubato is the expressive flagship — 4 RU, eight voices, sixty-four slices, around twenty-five seconds of buffer, dual Tape and granular Time playback engines. Built for the producer working on a single delicate phrase, like a vocal chop or an evolving pad.
Splitfire Furioso inverts every one of those choices. Three voices. Sixteen slices. Roughly four seconds of buffer. Tape-only engine. Two rack units. Designed not for a single phrase but for stacking — five Furiosos fit in 10 rack units and use less RAM than one Rubato. The Combinator brings them together.
Same sampler DNA. Different musical needs. A producer working on a vocal chop reaches for Rubato; the same producer reaching for five drum voices in a Combinator reaches for Furioso. Both are polished to their purpose, not one downgraded to fit a constraint.
// The devices
Splitfire family members
Splitfire Rubato
4U expressive flagship live sampler — eight voices, sixty-four slices, dual Tape + granular Time engines.
In development
Status reflects current development. Devices ship when ready, and are announced at beta or release — never earlier.
// Stacking
Combinator patterns
Five Furiosos in 10 rack units
Furioso is the family member designed for Combinator stacking. Five instances fit in 10 rack units and use less RAM than one Rubato. The Combinator brings them together: decompose a groove into independent rhythmic voices, each with its own slice grid, loop behaviour, CV routing and mute state. Patch slice-count CVs from different LFOs to get polyrhythmic textures from a single source. Wire the slice-count output to a sequencer's step count for self-syncing patches.
A set of ready-made Combinator patches is being prepared — Splitfire devices wrapped with useful companion devices and sensible starting settings. The downloads section here will appear as the patches are finished.
// Read more
Documentation
How to dig in
Each Splitfire device ships with three tiers of documentation: a two-page Quick Reference card to get playing in two minutes, an Operation Manual covering everyday use, and an In-Depth Manual that documents every control, every CV, every behaviour under every state combination — with a Pro Tips chapter for advanced workflows.