Travel with Tracktion through granular space aboard Delta-V’s Spacecraft

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Delta-V Audio’s SpaceCraft granular synth has been orbiting iOS for about a year but now it’s being brought into land on the planet of desktop so we can all have a ride. SpaceCraft What initially hits you is the bright and colourful interface that’s buzzing and pulsating at you. Then you brace yourself for the […]

Crusher-X version 8 will melt your brain and use it as a granular sound source

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Crusher-X from Accsone expands again and this time it’s going to smash you over the head with Grain Controlled Oscillators (GCOs), modulation arpeggiators, envelope following granular modulations and a sample loading DCO. Do we understand any of this yet? Probably not but it sounds like fun! Crusher-X 8 It’s a granular synthesizer that leads the […]

Output Portal: A granular FX plug-in with heaps of modulation

Published on : Published by : Lasse Eilers

Output has released Portal, a granular effects plug-in. Portal invites you to run any input signal through its granular synthesis engine, taking “your sounds to another dimension”, as Output claims. The plug-in also features extensive modulation capabilities and additional effects. Like other granular synthesizers and effects, such as Granulizer 2, PolyGAS, or Cosmosf FX4, Output […]

Grayscale’s Supercell Eurorack module breathes new life into Clouds

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Mutable Instrument’s granular synthesis module Clouds was one of Euroracks most popular and ubiquitous modules. And then it got discontinued. The coding and technology behind it are open source and so any enterprising individual or company could come up with their own versions. And several have, most notably the uClouds from Kian McEvoy. Supercell takes […]

Crusher-X Granular Synthesizer gets overly familiar with MPE

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Accsone has announced that their Crusher-X version 7.1 granular synthesizer virtual instrument now supports MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE).  Crusher-X MPE Developed with ROLI, makers of the Seaboard MPE controllers, Crusher-X is embracing all 5 dimensions of this expressive technology. Get your fingers in there wobbling and sliding to push grain density, pull in distortion or take […]

Softube Modular officially licenses Clouds from Mutable Instruments

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No pretence, no calling it Cloudz or Texture Synthesizer or some other way to rebrand the open source code. This is an official Mutable Instruments Clouds module for Softube Modular. Mutable Instruments Clouds Now, of course with the internals of Clouds being open source then anyone can build one and it’s going to sound the […]

Puremagnetik Granule granular delay – It grains for days!

Published on : Published by : Lyubomir Dobrev

Developer Puremagnetik released an interesting delay plug-in called Granule. This is a granular delay designed for mangling and glitching audio. It has been inspired by the Red Panda Particle guitar pedal and works by chopping audio into tiny grains. These are routed through a looper, a spectral pitch shifter, and a variable delay line. Granule […]