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Pads, Playback, and Pad Controls

Play Pads

Section titled “Play Pads”
  • Mouse: click a populated pad.
  • Keyboard: use the keys shown in the map below.

AutoSamplr results screen with centered computer keyboard keys overlaid on the pad grid.

  • MIDI: choose a controller in Settings > MIDI input, then play notes C1 through G3 to trigger pads 1 through 32.

Use Stop or Ctrl+. to stop all currently playing audio.

AutoSamplr Stop button.

Pad Actions

Section titled “Pad Actions”
  • Lock pads you want to keep before reranking.
  • Right-click a pad to edit or trim it. On macOS, Control-click also works.
  • Shift-right-click a populated pad and choose Select to enter bulk-selection mode. You can also Command-click on macOS or Control-click on Windows/Linux.
  • While bulk selection is active, the display-only status bar shows how many pads are selected. Check more pads, or press Command+A on macOS / Control+A on Windows and Linux to select every populated pad. Normal clicks still audition and normal right-click still opens the wave editor.
  • Shift-right-click while pads are selected to export or normalize the checked samples. Drag any checked pad to drag all checked WAV files together into Finder, Explorer, or a DAW.
  • Press Escape or choose Clear selection from the Shift-right-click menu to exit bulk selection.
  • Normalize includes checked locked pads. Lock protects a pad from rerolls; it does not block explicit edits or bulk actions.

AutoSamplr single-pad context menu with playback, lock, trim, copy, Select, export, and delete actions; bulk selection adds checkboxes and a selected count in the status bar.