Scale Navigator Particle Sampler. Harmonic-aware sample instrument.
Samples automatically transpose to fit the current scale or chord. When harmony changes, playing samples glide smoothly to new pitch targets instead of restarting. Three playback engines (Emitter, Looper, Sequencer) share the same harmonic system, keeping everything musically coherent.
Emitter generates rhythmic particle bursts of samples. Looper provides expressive sample pads with crossfades and glide. Sequencer arranges samples on a timeline.
SNaPS syncs with Scale Navigator Dashboard, which broadcasts the current harmonic state to every plugin in the session. When the scale changes from C Diatonic to F# Harmonic Minor, every playing sample glides to the closest valid pitch in the new scale.
Linear, Exponential, Logarithmic, Stepped (Chromatic or Scale-quantized), S-Curve, and Nathan Ho's expressive curve with prep dip ascending and overshoot descending.
When a sample can't fit the new scale, choose how it exits: stutter decay (rapid re-triggers with shrinking loop windows), filter sweep (low-pass from 20kHz to 200Hz), or Doppler drop (turntable power-off). These can be stacked.