Scatter Plot

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Overview

The Scatter view in the Library plots every sample on a grid, with two sound characteristics you pick driving its horizontal and vertical position. Each sample is its own dot, the same way it is on the Map and the Circle — the difference is what the position means. On the Map dots cluster by overall sonic similarity; on the Circle they cluster by key; on the Scatter you decide the two qualities being compared. It answers questions the other views can’t frame directly — “show me the bright, snappy sounds” is the top-right corner when X is attack and Y is brightness — and it makes the trade-offs in your library visible at a glance.

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Switching to Scatter

Pick Scatter from the view switcher in the Library toolbar. Each Library panel remembers its own view mode independently, so you can keep one panel on the list and another on the Scatter if you split your dock.

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Choosing the axes

Two dropdowns in the Scatter header set the X (horizontal) and Y (vertical) characteristics. Low values sit to the left and bottom; high values to the right and top. Pick from any of the sample’s sound characteristics — tempo, brightness, attack, stereo width, loudness, duration, and the rest of the Sound Profile.

• A swap control flips the two axes when you want to look at the same pair the other way round.
• Axis labels along the bottom and left edges name the chosen characteristics and which end is which.
• Changing an axis re-plots the dots in place — nothing is added or removed, the cloud just rearranges.

Because both axes are sound characteristics, a corner of the plot is a precise sonic description: with X = brightness and Y = stereo width, the top-right gathers your bright, wide sounds and the bottom-left your dark, narrow ones.

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Incomplete samples

A sample needs a value on both chosen characteristics to be placed exactly. Samples still waiting on analysis, or missing one of the two values, are parked near the middle of the axis they’re missing so nothing silently disappears. You can hide them instead from the Scatter header’s overflow menu, leaving only fully-placed samples on the grid.

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Interactions

Everything from the Map and Circle works here too.

• Click a sample to play it through the audio player.
• Drag a sample straight into Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, or any DAW that accepts file drops.
• Right-click a sample for the full sample menu — favourite, add to collection, set key/scale/tempo, classify, upload, copy, delete.
• Shift-drag to lasso a region and multi-select. Save the result as a collection or apply it as a filter on the list view.
• Arrow keys step through the visible samples in the direction you press.
• Mouse wheel zooms; click-and-drag pans.

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How the Scatter relates to filters

Active filters dim non-matching samples the same way they do on the Map and Circle. If you’ve filtered to loop + genre: techno, the grid still shows every dot’s position but only matching dots stay at full brightness; the rest fade. Isolate in the Scatter header hides the dimmed dots entirely, leaving just your filtered set spread across the two axes.

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Searching on the grid

Describe a sound in the search bar — or run Deep Search — and the Scatter becomes a map of your matches — the closest samples stay at full brightness while everything else dims, so you can see where on the two axes your matches sit. Isolate hides the rest entirely. Suggestion chips appear in a strip above the grid.

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Zooming and clusters

When you zoom out far enough that dots would overlap, the Scatter thins each crowded area down to a few representatives. Those surviving dots grow to show they stand in for a cluster; as you zoom back in, they shrink and split into the individual samples behind them.