REQ: MonkeyC Rando

Rando seamlessly connects to all the sample libraries on your computer, bringing a fresh perspective to your music-making process. Go full random and let Rando surprise you with its choices, or tailor the experience. Want only drum sounds? Or perhaps a keyboard filled with shakers? Rando does it all. Plus, each sound is equipped with six unique effects for individual customization.



The idea is simple: you point Rando at any or all of your sample folders and then let it assign a random selection to notes on your MIDI keyboard and in your piano roll. You can narrow down your selections by text, type and category, but as a rule, unpredictability is something that this plugin revels in.

The good news is that tonal samples are automatically tuned and rhythmic ones time-stretched to tempo, so it’s not a complete lottery. There are basic sampler editing functions, a chromatic mode that pitches a sound across the keyboard, and a Life control that adds analogue-style drift.

You also have six global effects to play with - filter, chorus, distortion, crush, delay and reverb - and there’s a sequencer section with (you guessed it) a randomization function that will automatically generate patterns.