SplitFire Rubato
Creative live sampler
- • Record, slice and play any audio live
- • Three pitch engines: Tape, Time & Pro
- • Seamless looping, stutter & tape character
SplitFire Rubato turns any audio into a playable instrument.
Feed it a drum loop, a vocal phrase, a synth line or a field recording, hit record, and Rubato captures it into its buffer and slices it on the transients — ready to play across your keyboard or re-sequence straight from the rack.
From there it’s a performance instrument. Play the whole take transposed in Pitch mode, or fire individual slices in Slice mode to chop, scramble and finger-drum your source. Three pitch engines — Tape for true varispeed, Time for independent time-stretch, and Pro for clean, high-fidelity transposition — cover everything from lo-fi grit to pristine pitch-shifting.
A dual-mode looper holds notes as tight rhythmic loops or seamless sustained textures, a stutter engine delivers rolls and glitches on demand, and tape-style Drag, Wow and Scatter add the wobble and drift of worn hardware. Shape the result with an amp envelope and a multimode filter.
And it’s built to be driven: nearly every parameter is available as CV and as a Combinator/automation target — with dedicated inputs for slice selection, looping, stutter and character — making Rubato as much a modular performance tool as a sampler.