Normal, Chromatic and Slice mode — which do I want?

Normal — one note plays one sample, and the keyboard is filled with different sounds. This is the mode you'll use most, and it's what makes Rando feel like Rando.

Chromatic — takes a single sample and pitches it across the whole keyboard, low to high, like a classic sampler. Use it when you've found a sound you want to play as an instrument rather than trigger as a one-shot.

Slice — cuts one waveform into pieces and lays them across the keys, so you can chop up and rebuild a loop by playing it. Built for breakbeats and long loops, where the interesting part is the order of the pieces.

Short version: Normal to find sounds, Chromatic to play one as an instrument, Slice to rearrange a loop.

A note on glide

In Chromatic mode, Poly ignores pitch glide entirely, whatever you've set Glide Speed to. If you've dialled in a glide and hear nothing, that's almost always why — switch to Mono for glide on every note, or Legato for glide only when notes overlap.