Free · In your browser
Sample chopper, online and free.
Drop a sound in, set your cut points on the waveform, and take the slices two ways: download them as files, or load them straight onto TAIL's 16 pads and play. No installation, no signup — right here on this page.
How it works
How to chop a sample, in under a minute
Drop a sound in
Drag any audio onto the waveform — a loop, a voice memo, a bounce off your phone. It decodes in the browser; nothing is uploaded.
Set your chops
Slice it on the waveform: add a chop marker at every hit, drag it until the transient sits right, and each chop becomes its own file.
Play them back
Download the chops, or load them straight onto TAIL's 16 pads — finger-drum them, then tap a pattern into the step sequencer.
What people chop
Breaks, vocals, loops, and whatever your phone recorded
Drum breaks
Chop a break into kick, snare, hats and ghost notes, put each one on its own pad, and rebuild the groove in a different order. The classic reason to own a chopper.
Vocal chops
Slice a phrase into syllables and play them as an instrument. Short chops with tight start points are what makes a vocal chop sound rhythmic instead of chopped-up.
Melody loops
Cut a soul or jazz loop on the chord changes rather than on the bar line. Each chord gets a pad, and the flip is a new progression, not a rearranged loop.
Field recordings and voice memos
A door, a train, a note you hummed into your phone at 2am. Chop out the usable second, and it is a sound you own outright — no clearance, no sample pack.
No DAW required
Why chop samples in the browser
Every other way to chop a sample starts with software: download a DAW, install a plugin, create a project, load a sampler. By the time it's ready, the idea has cooled off. A browser sample chopper flips that — the chopper is a link. Hear something, open it, slice it, play it, while it's still in your head.
It also runs on your own device. The file you drop in is decoded locally by Web Audio and never leaves the tab, which is the other reason an online chopper beats an upload-and-wait web service: there's no queue, no account, and no copy of your unreleased bounce sitting on someone's server.
Chops → pads
The chops land on pads, not in a folder
Most online choppers hand you a zip and stop there. This one is the front end of a real sampler: hit Load chops in TAIL and the first sixteen slices go straight onto the pads of the browser sampler — same tab, in order, ready to play. 16 pads, 8 banks, a step sequencer and mutegroups, so the chops become a beat rather than a folder of files.
Export the beat whenever you like. And when a sketch deserves the full studio treatment, the whole kit — pads, banks and sequences — loads into KITE as a plugin, so the flip becomes a track without starting over. This chopper is KITE's chopper, opened at the part most people come for.
More TAIL tools
Everything else that runs in the same tab
Online sampler
The instrument the chops land on: 16 pads, 8 banks, step sequencer, free in the browser.
Sample slicer
Same engine, framed around cutting one long file into many clean slices.
How to chop samples
The technique — where to cut, how to kill clicks, and how it's done in FL Studio and Ableton.
Common questions about sample chopping
Load the audio, set a chop marker at every point where a new hit or chord starts, and export each slice as its own file. On this page that is three steps: drop the sound in, add your chops on the waveform, then download them or load them onto TAIL's 16 pads and play them back.
Yes. Open it in your browser and chop — no installation, no signup to play, no export limit and no watermark. There's a native iOS/Android app as a $3.99 one-time purchase if you want TAIL on your home screen, offline.
Whatever your browser can decode, which in practice covers WAV, MP3, M4A/AAC and OGG everywhere, plus FLAC in most current browsers. Chops come back out as audio files you can drop into any DAW.
No. The chopper runs entirely in your browser on Web Audio — open the link and start slicing. Your audio is decoded locally and never uploaded to a server.
That's the whole point. The waveform, the markers, the pads — all built for a touchscreen, not a desktop UI shrunk down. It works the same on a tablet or a laptop.
Yes — download the chops as files, and export the beat you build from them. What you make is yours; there is no account and no paywall in front of the export button.
A DAW asks you to install software, create a project, and set up a sampler before you hear a single chop. TAIL is the opposite: the idea comes first. Chop in the browser in seconds — and when a sketch deserves the full studio treatment, the whole kit loads into KITE as a plugin.