Transient Swapper

Every slot is exactly 100 ms, and your sample is cut to fit. 4,800 samples at 48 kHz, the same for all 34 — there is no length field to change. Anything longer is truncated; anything shorter is padded with silence at the end. A slot that had to cut your file says so, with the original length, and the start control moves which 100 ms is kept. The slot's waveform shows your whole file with the imported window shaded, so you can see exactly what is kept and what is dropped — and, for a short sample, how much of the slot is silence.

Elektron's own transients do not all fit either: 20 of the 34 are still ringing when their slot ends, and that ring is what you hear at the beginning of the next one. So the factory bank behaves like a continuous 3.4-second recording cut into 100 ms pieces rather than 34 self-contained hits — and replacing a slot quietly changes the opening of the slot after it, because the borrowed tail goes away. A sample that decays inside 100 ms will behave more predictably than the factory content does.

Each slot sits at TRAN = 4 × slot − 8, measured on hardware. Slot 20 is at TRAN 72, slot 33 at TRAN 124. Every slot below shows its value.

Slots 0 and 1 cannot be selected at all. TRAN starts at 0, which is already slot 2, so the first two entries are in the bank but out of the knob's reach — worth knowing before you spend a sample on one. 32 of the 34 are reachable.

The engine also interpolates between neighbours over that four-unit stride, so values between two slots blend them rather than snapping. How this was measured.