MANTIS-64 is a 64-pad performance sampler with a sequencer, a song timeline, an 11-effect rack and a live looper — plus an engine that mines loops out of whole records, smelts them into drum kits, and a resident AI DJ that performs full sets from what you dig.
Most tools cover one stage of a track. MANTIS-64 runs the entire line — and every stage hands its work to the next.
01
MINE
Drop any record down the shaft. The miner tracks the beat — the drummer's drift included — and racks the sixteen most loopable bars on a pad bank, BPM and key attached.
02
SMELT
Loops melt into one-shots: kicks, snares and hats found, classified and cut into a playable drum kit.
03
SEQUENCE
Sixteen steps, accents, swing, auto-fills. Write it yourself, or let the producer lab write with you.
04
ARRANGE
Song Studio lays your patterns on a timeline. Set the bars per block, hang a drop on any downbeat.
05
PERFORM
Ride builds, drops, breaks and rewinds by hand — or hand MC MANTIS the deck and let the AI DJ read the room.
06
MASTER
Render a clean WAV, export every pad as a stem, or tape the live set exactly as it happened.
SPOTLIGHT
THE MINER & THE RESIDENT DJ
THE MINE TAB · MC MANTIS IN THE BOOTH
The crate is any record you own. The miner digs it — beat-tracked against real drummer drift, cut at zero crossings, ranked by how well each bar actually loops — and racks the best sixteen with BPM and key.
Then MC MANTIS takes the crate. Pick hype, chill, festival or underground, and the resident AI DJ plans a whole set — builds, drops, breakdowns, patter on the mic — performing your loops live and re-planning mid-set when it reads the room.
ARM ⏺ TAPE AND THE SET RECORDS ITSELF.
SPOTLIGHT
SONG STUDIO — THE DAW LAYER
Arrangement is blocks on a timeline: this pattern for four bars, that one for sixteen, a drop hanging on the downbeat between them. AUTO ARC sketches a festival structure from whatever patterns you have; every block resizes, reorders and re-arms with a tap.
Play it live, or print it: a clean WAV master in one click, or every pad as its own stem — ready for any DAW you already mix in. The song saves inside your project file, like everything else you own here.
SONG STUDIO · A FESTIVAL ARC, SIX BLOCKS
SPOTLIGHT
LEARN IT IN ONE SITTING
THE TUTOR · STEP 7 OF 16
The built-in TUTOR is hands-on: sixteen spotlight steps across every deck, and the important ones only advance when you actually play the pad, place the step, arm the move. No videos, no manual — the studio teaches itself.
It ships in the free demo too. Send it to a friend who has never touched a sampler; they will be arranging drops within the hour.
YOUR RIG
SPEAKS FLUENT HARDWARE
MANTIS-64 is complete on its own — and it treats the gear on your desk as a first-class citizen.
TWO-WAY SP-404MK2 BRIDGE
Clock lead or follow, pads fire in both directions, orientation flips per unit — and a full sampling desk chops whatever you play through it.
NEOTONE MUTANT SUITE
The on-screen pan mirrors the instrument: 26-zone note learning, scale libraries that retune on the fly, pressure expression, AI duet and stage-ready rig presets.
SPEC-SHEET ILLUSTRATIONS, NOT ENDORSEMENTS · ROLAND AND SP-404 ARE TRADEMARKS OF ROLAND CORPORATION · MANTIS-64 IS AN INDEPENDENT INSTRUMENT THAT SPEAKS MIDI TO BOTH
THE FULL SPEC
EVERYTHING IN THE BOX
64 PADS · 4 BANKS
Velocity pads with pitch, trim, reverse, choke groups and per-pad FX sends. Sample from the mic, a file, or the master bus itself.
16-STEP SEQUENCER
Eight patterns with accents, swing, chaining and auto-fills that roll the snare into every transition.
SONG STUDIO
The DAW layer: pattern blocks on a timeline, DJ moves on the downbeats, one-click WAV master and per-pad stems.
11-FX RACK + XY PAD
Filter, delay, reverb, crush, drive, gate, wobble, punch, wub, pump and multiband squash — one performable surface.
LIVE LOOPER
Bar-synced overdub looping of anything on the input. 1/2/4/8 bars, four layers, loops feed straight into the chopper.
LOOP MINER
A record goes in; the sixteen most loopable bars come out — drift-tracked, zero-cross cut, ranked, keyed.
MC MANTIS · AI DJ
A resident AI DJ that plans and performs full sets from your mined loops — builds, drops, breakdowns, patter on the mic.
SMELT + REFINERY
One record becomes a drum kit and six performance variants per loop: half-speed vinyl, 45→33, reverse, riser, stutter, radio.
THE SOUND LIBRARY
600,000+ free, properly licensed sounds searched and auditioned without leaving the app. Keepers drop straight onto pads.
AI PRODUCER LAB
Original AI artists compose full tracks in your kit and write beats from your own chops — real measurement, not vibes.
VOCODER + AUTOTUNE
Speak into a talking synth or sing hard-tuned to any key, then resample the result onto a pad.
HANDS-ON TUTOR
A sixteen-step guided tour that only advances when you actually play. Ships in the demo — learn it in one sitting.
ZERO FRICTION
HOW BUYING WORKS
01 · BUY
One payment through Stripe. No account to create, no forms — checkout takes a minute.
02 · GET YOUR KEY
Your studio password appears the moment payment completes. Keep it — it is your license.
03 · PLAY FOREVER
Enter the studio on any laptop or phone. Install it to your home screen. Every future update included.
ONE PRICE
FOUNDING LIFETIME LICENSE
$99
ONE PAYMENT · LIFETIME ACCESS
✓ The full MANTIS-64 studio, forever ✓ Loop miner, MC MANTIS, Song Studio, stems out ✓ The 600,000-sound library, searched in-app ✓ SP-404 bridge + Neotone Mutant suite ✓ AI producer lab + hands-on tutor ✓ Every future update — recent ones above arrived free ✓ Founding price, locked before memberships launch
A laptop or phone with Chrome or Edge. MIDI hardware (SP-404, Neotone, any controller) is optional — the sampler is complete on its own.
I'm brand new — can I learn on it?
Yes. The built-in TUTOR walks every deck hands-on — pads, sequencer, song studio, the miner, the AI DJ — and the free demo includes the full tour.
Is the AI required?
No. Every AI feature has a hands-on twin: the DJ moves are your buttons, the sequencer is yours, the miner is signal processing that runs on your device. The AI needs the internet; the instrument doesn't.
Where do my tracks end up?
In your downloads, as ordinary files you own: WAV masters, per-pad stems, taped sets, and .mantis project files that load back in anywhere.
Is it really lifetime?
One payment, every future update, no subscription. Founding licenses keep lifetime access even after memberships launch.
Does it work offline?
Yes — it installs to your home screen like an app and keeps working after the first load. Only the AI bridges and the sound library need a connection.
