diff --git a/vall_e/config.py b/vall_e/config.py
index 2afac34..c3b69b0 100755
--- a/vall_e/config.py
+++ b/vall_e/config.py
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ class Model:
 	tasks: int = 8 # ["tts", "ns", "sr", "tse", "cse", "nse"] and leaves two more for anything else I want (like "svc")
 	arch_type: str = "transformer"
 	training: bool = True
-	interleave_pattern: str | None = None
+	interleave: bool = False
 
 	@property
 	def full_name(self):
@@ -174,6 +174,9 @@ class Model:
 		if self.arch_type != "transformer":
 			name.append(self.arch_type.replace("/", "-"))
 
+		if self.interleave:
+			name.append("interleaved")
+
 		name.append(f'{cfg.models.prom_levels}')
 
 		return "-".join(name)
@@ -228,8 +231,8 @@ class Models:
 	_prom_levels: int = 1
 
 	_models: list[Model] = field(default_factory=lambda: [
-		Model(name="ar", resp_levels=1, prom_levels=8, tasks=8, training=True),
-		Model(name="nar", resp_levels=7, prom_levels=8, tasks=8, training=True),
+		Model(name="ar", resp_levels=1, prom_levels=8, tasks=8, training=True, interleave=False),
+		Model(name="nar", resp_levels=7, prom_levels=8, tasks=8, training=True, interleave=False),
 	])
 
 	def get(self, name=None):
diff --git a/vall_e/ext/interleaver.py b/vall_e/ext/interleaver.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f7d9590..0000000
--- a/vall_e/ext/interleaver.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-# From: https://github.com/facebookresearch/audiocraft/blob/main/audiocraft/modules/codebooks_patterns.py
-# audiocraft has heavy dependencies, so it doesn't make sense to depend on it just for this file.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vall_e/models/ar.py b/vall_e/models/ar.py
index 363c94e..b2b7baa 100755
--- a/vall_e/models/ar.py
+++ b/vall_e/models/ar.py
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ class AR(Base):
 
 	@property
 	def arch_type(self) -> str:
-		if hasattr(self, "_cfg") and self._cfg:
-			return self._cfg.arch_type
+		if hasattr(self, "config") and self.config:
+			return self.config.arch_type
 		return cfg.models.ar.arch_type
 
 	@property
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ class AR(Base):
 
 	@property
 	def n_resp_levels(self) -> int:
-		if hasattr(self, "_cfg") and self._cfg:
-			return self._cfg.resp_levels
+		if hasattr(self, "config") and self.config:
+			return self.config.resp_levels
 		return cfg.models.ar.resp_levels
 
 	@property
@@ -55,12 +55,30 @@ class AR(Base):
 			return 0
 		return cfg.inference.recurrent_chunk_size
 
+	@property
+	def interleave(self) -> bool:
+		if hasattr(self, "config") and self.config:
+			return self.config.interleave
+		return False
+
 	def _prune(self, l: Tensor):
 		indices = (l == self.stop_token).nonzero()
 		if len(indices) == 0:
 			return l
 		return l[: indices.min().item()]
 
+	def _interleave( self, codes ):
+		if not self.interleave:
+			return codes
+
+		return codes.flatten()
+
+	def _deinterleave( self, codes, length = 0 ):
+		if not self.interleave:
+			return codes
+
+		return torch.unflatten( codes[:codes.shape[0] // self.n_prom_levels * self.n_prom_levels], 0, ( codes.shape[0] // self.n_prom_levels, self.n_prom_levels ) )
+
 	@staticmethod
 	def _unsqueeze_list(x_list, axis=-1):
 		return [x.unsqueeze(dim=axis) for x in x_list]
@@ -74,7 +92,10 @@ class AR(Base):
 		sampling_temperature: float = 1.0,
 	):
 		if resps_list is not None:
-			resps_list = [r[..., 0] for r in resps_list] # guarantees we only have the first levels
+			if self.interleave:
+				resps_list = [self._interleave(r) for r in resps_list]
+			else:
+				resps_list = [r[..., 0] for r in resps_list] # guarantees we only have the first levels
 
 			return super().forward(
 				text_list=text_list,
@@ -94,6 +115,9 @@ class AR(Base):
 
 		state = {} if cfg.inference.recurrent_forward else None
 
+		if self.interleave:
+			max_steps *= self.n_prom_levels
+
 		for n in trange(max_steps // max(1, self.recurrent_chunk_size)):
 			# get next in sequence
 
@@ -116,9 +140,10 @@ class AR(Base):
 			if stopped.all().item():
 				break
 
-
-		pruned = [self._prune(r) for r in resps_list]
-		return pruned
+		res = [self._prune(r) for r in resps_list]
+		if self.interleave:
+			res = [self._deinterleave(r) for r in res]
+		return res
 
 
 def example_usage():
@@ -163,6 +188,10 @@ def example_usage():
 		'n_heads': 16,
 		'n_layers': 24,
 	}
+	try:
+		kwargs['config'] = cfg.models.ar
+	except Exception as e:
+		pass 
 	model = AR(**kwargs).to(device)
 	engine = Engine(model=model, optimizer=torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=1e-4))
 	
diff --git a/vall_e/models/base.py b/vall_e/models/base.py
index c74bace..7eefaeb 100755
--- a/vall_e/models/base.py
+++ b/vall_e/models/base.py
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 	@property
 	def recurrent_chunk_size(self) -> int:
 		raise NotImplementedError
+	
+	@property
+	def interleave(self) -> bool:
+		return False
 
 	def __init__(
 		self,
@@ -137,8 +141,11 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 		n_heads: int = 8,
 		n_layers: int = 12,
 		p_dropout: float = 0.1,
+		config = None, 
 	):
 		super().__init__()
+		self.config = config
+
 		self.n_tokens = n_tokens
 		self.d_model = d_model
 		self.n_heads = n_heads
diff --git a/vall_e/models/interleaved_ar.py b/vall_e/models/interleaved_ar.py
index 3d78576..d2644cf 100644
--- a/vall_e/models/interleaved_ar.py
+++ b/vall_e/models/interleaved_ar.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 
 	@property
 	def n_resp_levels(self) -> int:
-		return 4
+		return 1
 
 	@property
 	def n_max_levels(self) -> int:
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 
 	@property
 	def interleave_pattern(self) -> str | None:
-		return "musiclm"
+		return "flatten"
 
 	@property
 	def stop_token(self):
@@ -192,27 +192,12 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 			return codes
 
 		return codes.flatten()
-		"""
-		pattern_provider = _get_pattern_provider( self.interleave_pattern )( self.n_resp_levels )
-		pattern = pattern_provider.get_pattern( codes.shape[0] )
-		res, _, _ = pattern.build_pattern_sequence( codes.t()[None, :, :], self.interleaved_token, keep_only_valid_steps=True )
-		return res[0].t().flatten()
-		"""
 
-	def _deinterleave( self, codes ):
+	def _deinterleave( self, codes, length = 0 ):
 		if not self.interleave_pattern:
 			return codes
 
-		return torch.unflatten( codes[:codes.shape[0] // self.n_resp_levels * self.n_resp_levels], 0, ( codes.shape[0] // self.n_resp_levels, self.n_resp_levels ) )
-		"""
-		if codes.dim() == 1:
-			codes = torch.unflatten( codes[:codes.shape[0] // self.n_resp_levels * self.n_resp_levels], 0, ( codes.shape[0] // self.n_resp_levels, self.n_resp_levels ) )
-
-		pattern_provider = _get_pattern_provider( self.interleave_pattern )( self.n_resp_levels )
-		pattern = pattern_provider.get_pattern( codes.shape[0] )
-		res, _, _ = pattern.revert_pattern_sequence( codes, special_token=self.interleaved_token)
-		return res[0].t()
-		"""
+		return torch.unflatten( codes[:codes.shape[0] // self.n_prom_levels * self.n_prom_levels], 0, ( codes.shape[0] // self.n_prom_levels, self.n_prom_levels ) )
 
 	def __init__(
 		self,
@@ -232,13 +217,13 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 		self.n_layers = n_layers
 
 		# + tasks for each token they represent in the prom
-		n_prom_tokens = n_tokens + (self.n_tasks - 1) + (1 if self.interleave_pattern else 0) # - 1 because tts is an inherent task
+		n_prom_tokens = n_tokens + (self.n_tasks - 1) # - 1 because tts is an inherent task
 		# +1 to include the stop token + 1 to include interleave token
-		n_resp_tokens = n_tokens + (1 if self.use_stop_token else 0) + (1 if self.interleave_pattern else 0) # AR requires a stop token to... know when to stop
+		n_resp_tokens = n_tokens + (1 if self.use_stop_token else 0) # AR requires a stop token to... know when to stop
 
 		self.text_emb = Embedding(n_tokens, d_model)
 		self.proms_emb = MultiEmbedding(self.n_prom_levels, n_prom_tokens, d_model)
-		self.resps_emb = MultiEmbedding(1, n_resp_tokens, d_model)
+		self.resps_emb = MultiEmbedding(self.n_resp_levels, n_resp_tokens, d_model)
 
 		self.sep = nn.Parameter(torch.randn(d_model))
 
@@ -270,7 +255,6 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 			))
 
 		# I imagine because each step returns `resp_level`s tokens at once, so we need to have a classifier for each level
-		#self.classifier = nn.ModuleList([ nn.Linear(d_model, n_resp_tokens) for _ in range(self.n_resp_levels) ]) if self.interleave_pattern else nn.Linear(d_model, n_resp_tokens)
 		self.classifier = nn.Linear(d_model, n_resp_tokens)
 
 		self.accuracy_metric = MulticlassAccuracy(
@@ -385,11 +369,6 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 		# Remove padding
 		h_list = [hi[:li] for hi, li in zip(x, map(len, x_list))]
 
-		if True:
-			logits = [hi[:] for hi, li in zip(h_list, map(len, resps_list))]
-			ret = [ Categorical(logits=hi / sampling_temperature).sample() for hi in logits ]
-			print( [ r for r in ret ] )
-
 		# compute loss if the target is given
 		if targ_list is not None:
 			if any([l == 0 for l in map(len, targ_list)]):
@@ -487,6 +466,8 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 
 		state = {} if cfg.inference.recurrent_forward else None
 
+		max_steps *= self.n_prom_levels
+
 		for n in range(max_steps // max(1, self.recurrent_chunk_size)):
 			# get next in sequence
 
@@ -502,6 +483,7 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 			for i, ri in enumerate(r):
 				if self.stop_token in ri:
 					stopped[i] = True
+
 				resps_list[i] = torch.cat([resps_list[i], ri])
 
 			# stop token found
@@ -509,12 +491,7 @@ class Base(nn.Module):
 			if stopped.all().item():
 				break
 
-
-		pruned = [self._prune(r) for r in resps_list]
-		print( [ r for r in pruned ] )
-		deinterleaved = [ self._deinterleave(r) for r in pruned ]
-		print( [ r for r in deinterleaved ] )
-		return deinterleaved
+		return [self._deinterleave(self._prune(r)) for r in resps_list]
 
 def example_usage():
 	from ..config import cfg
@@ -548,7 +525,7 @@ def example_usage():
 	for name, model in models.items():
 		print(f"{name} parameter count: {sum(p.numel() for p in model.parameters() if p.requires_grad)}")
 
-	engines = Engines({ name: Engine(model=model, optimizer=torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=1e-4)) for name, model in models.items() })
+	engines = Engines({ name: Engine(model=model, optimizer=torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=5e-5)) for name, model in models.items() })
 
 	train = True
 
@@ -565,7 +542,7 @@ def example_usage():
 		qnt.to(device),
 	]
 	
-	def sample( filename, steps=450 * 4 ):
+	def sample( filename, steps=450 ):
 		AR = None
 
 		engines.eval()
@@ -578,10 +555,10 @@ def example_usage():
 		decode_to_file(resps_list[0].cpu(), f"./data/{filename}.wav", device="cpu")
 	
 	if train:
-		sample("init", 15)
+		sample("init", 75 )
 
 		engines.train()
-		t = trange(100)
+		t = trange(500)
 		for i in t:
 			stats = {"step": i}
 			"""
diff --git a/vall_e/models/nar.py b/vall_e/models/nar.py
index 531720b..43a3078 100755
--- a/vall_e/models/nar.py
+++ b/vall_e/models/nar.py
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ class NAR(Base):
 
 	@property
 	def arch_type(self) -> str:
-		if hasattr(self, "_cfg") and self._cfg:
-			return self._cfg.arch_type
+		if hasattr(self, "config") and self.config:
+			return self.config.arch_type
 		return cfg.models.nar.arch_type
 
 	@property
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ class NAR(Base):
 
 	@property
 	def n_resp_levels(self) -> int:
-		if hasattr(self, "_cfg") and self._cfg:
-			return self._cfg.resp_levels
+		if hasattr(self, "config") and self.config:
+			return self.config.resp_levels
 		return cfg.models.nar.resp_levels
 
 	@property
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ class NAR(Base):
 	def recurrent_chunk_size(self) -> int:
 		return 0
 
+	@property
+	def interleave(self) -> bool:
+		return False
+
 	def forward(
 		self,
 		text_list: list[Tensor],