slice trigger and looper

 Hi everyone,
I'm an absolute newb at using max and am putting in a lot of time trying to understand other peoples patches and learning the way things work. One of my primary reasons for interest in this is to accomplish the following....and I thought I'd ask here to see if anyone has suggestions on somewhere this may even already exist.
 I have long been on the search for a plugin that can do two things to an audio buffer via MIDI: 1) trigger individual slices, 2) allow me to select loop points.
The first part is the most important at the moment and I know it is possible with chucker but haven't figured out how to trigger cycle offsets or anything yet. "Mind Shuffler" seems to do a lot of these things, but am having a hard time understanding how that one works due to the integration with the other items in the suite. The second part is even further beyond my abilities, and will come with time.
Any help anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. Or else I'm off to the drawing board to try and develop/modify this myself. 
Take care all,
Marc