LENS
Load a sound you love. Have a track by the time the coffee is cold.
If you have ever lost a night to a box with a light under every step, you know how this works. Sixteen tracks, sixty-four steps, a knob lock on any step, conditions that change the fourth bar, a FILL key under your thumb. Load a kit, press play, and the pattern is moving before you have thought about it. Then slice, warp, sweep the map and record the Scenes into a song.
01Steps that hold more
Lock almost any knob to a single step: pitch, filter, FX, the slice, even which sample plays. Velocity, hold, PROB, MICRO, RATCH and conditions (1:2 to 4:4, FILL, FIRST) per step, and every track keeps its own length for polyrhythms.
02Cut and stretch
The SLICER chops a loop on the grid or on its hits and deals the slices onto steps in order, shuffled or reversed. WARP keeps loops on tempo; TEXTURE turns any sample into a grain cloud.
03A library that listens
BROWSE sorts your samples into kicks, snares and hats by sound. MAP lays a folder out from dark to bright and soft to punchy; sweep across it to audition while the pattern plays.
04Motion you keep
An XY pad per track (and one for the mix) that moves up to four controls, and can DRIVE itself in circles and sweeps. Press REC and every knob move is recorded with TRACE.
05Scenes to song
Sixteen Scenes, a song list and SONG REC: play the Scenes by hand and your take becomes the arrangement. Song templates write a whole structure: HEARTH, MOTORIK, AUTOMATA or FJORD.
06Out into the world
Export with stems, 16 track outputs into your DAW, MIDI out to Elektron gear or your DAW's drum rack, MIDI learn and Launch Control XL 3 support. Record straight in with SAMPLE IN.
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What you get
| Tracks | 16 sample tracks, 64 steps each, per-track length and swing |
|---|---|
| Per track | Filter (LP / HP / BP / LP24 ladder), 3 LFOs, grains, 2 FX inserts, 6-band EQ, XY pad |
| Master | ECHO + SPACE sends, 2 master FX, master EQ, GLUE / TAPE / TILT, safety ceiling |
| Song | 16 Scenes, song list, SONG REC, song templates |
| I/O | Export with stems, 16 track outputs, audio input, MIDI in / out, drag patterns into the DAW as MIDI |
| Sounds | Kits cut from our own drum machines, synths, tape and field recordings |
| Formats | Standalone app · VST3 · AU |
| Systems | macOS 11+ (Apple silicon + Intel) · Windows 10/11 64-bit |
Demo
The demo is the full instrument: every sound, every page, no time limit. Saving (projects, presets) and taking audio out are switched off, and the sound dips softly for a second once a minute, until you add a licence key; your DAW session still saves with it inside. The same install unlocks.
The quick guide takes you from silence to a moving loop in five minutes, then through slicing, the library, motion and song mode.
Read the quick guideMOVE THE LENS, NOT THE SAMPLE.
LENS · $99
Or get all six in the LENS SUITE for $249.