introducing fragment, a plugin that turns any passing moment of audio into looping, cycling material. hit freeze and whatever’s currently sitting in fragment’s rolling buffer locks in place, ready to be carved into four independent loop fragments: each cycling, rotating and wandering through it on its own schedule.

fragment isn’t only for live input, either. drop a sample straight onto the waveform and it loops and fragments in exactly the same way, so an old recording can be broken apart and rebuilt into something new. every fragment: blue, green, yellow and purple, gets its own cycling rate, cycle size, pitch, filter, stereo wander and volume, all four running independently and simultaneously.

fragment takes its cue from tape phasing – the same idea steve reich built whole pieces from, looping one recording at slightly different rates until it drifts out of sync with itself to create interesting textures and rhythms. here you get four fragments at an extreme of that idea, each one cycling independently and completely randomly: the soundscapes that emerge reveal a completely new sound every time.

fragment is built for the loops and textures that sit underneath a track. the kind of detail that’s rarely the main event, but gives a mix its character and add intrigue. freeze a passing moment, let it drift and fragment in the background, and leave it to work as flavour rather than focus.