Chop a Sample on the KO II

Slice a loop across the pads and rearrange it into something new.

1. Open chop mode. First select the pad that holds your sampled loop so it is the active sound. Then press CHOP (hold SHIFT and press SAMPLE) to enter chop mode and lay the loop out as slices across the pads. (You should see your loop split into evenly spaced slices spread across the pads. If nothing changes, you probably did not have a pad with a sample selected first, so back out and reselect the loop.)
2. Audition the slices. Tap pads 1-9 one at a time to hear each slice. By default the sample is split into equal pieces across the pads. (Each pad should play a different consecutive chunk of the loop, so tapping them in order from pad 1 upward should replay the loop roughly start to finish. If two pads sound nearly identical, your loop may be longer than the slices and that is fine.)
3. Flip it. Play the slices back in a new order by tapping pads 1-9 out of sequence to build a fresh melody or groove from the same source. (You should hear the loop rearranged into something that no longer sounds like the original. If it still sounds like the source playing straight through, you are likely tapping the pads in order, so jump around more.)
4. Capture the flip. Press RECORD, then press PLAY to start the loop rolling, and finger-drum your rearranged slices on pads 1-9 into the pattern. (You should hear your chopped performance recorded and looping back to you. If nothing was captured, check that both RECORD and PLAY were lit before you started tapping.)