Hey andros1983,

I thought I'd make up a quick granular demo for you to listen to using Alchemy's granular engine.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4849676#484967 6

It uses a single sample. What I did for the manipulation in this is pretty straightforward. On a midi-keyboard, I assigned eight parameters for performance. The position knob was assigned to the modwheel and an encoder; it was also modulated in small amounts by a random hold LFO. The stretch knob (which sets the rate at which Alchemy will read through the sample) was assigned to a knob, as was grain size, grain density, random time, random pitch, and delay and reverb.

Everything you'll hear was me performing all of those parameters in real-time, in one take. The idea was to show a variety of textures and sounds you can get out of the engine with what I consider to be minimal tweaking. The track is kind of a noise/soundscape track, but you can adjust Alchemy's parameters to make really nice "normal" sounding tracks and sounds; consider that you get four sources to work with (I used only one source), Alchemy's granular engine offers an extremely powerful option. I definitely suggest playing around with it a bit to learn it in and out--you'll be really happy you did.

Honestly, I personally feel that working with Alchemy's granular engine is the best you can currently get short of designing your own granular instrument in something like Max, Csound, or Reaktor, etc.

@Neon Breath

Thanks for the compliments on the track.

Yeah, the Ferrari/Porsche example is kind of true . But let's not be too hard on the OP, Alchemy is so deep, it's kind of hard to always know everything it's capable of without spending dedicated time with the manual.

@Neon Breath

But let's not be too hard on the OP, Alchemy is so deep, it's kind of hard to always know everything it's capable of without spending dedicated time with the manual.

If I get a hold of this, your BOTH, cooked!!

Hi.
It is possible that in future versions we can manipulate samples like Steinberg padshop?? It would be really amazing.....

Yes I agree I think that would be quite amazing. I've tested out both software and I find padshop perhaps a little bit more unique than Alchemy in some areas but that's just me. Overall both of them are very amazing in there own ways of creating sounds. I know one thing I think you'll be quite happy with the padshop just like for me I'm quite happy with both Stienberg-padshop and IL-harmor. I'm just going nuts over both of them

But again, what does ''manipulate samples like padshop'' exactly mean? What are the Padshop manipulation techniques that can not be achieve with Alchemy? Just curious here, cause I don't get it.

Alchemy is hard to program and I kind of feel it is time consuming to create my own patches since you have to be jumping all over the place to come up with your own patches

Is Alchemy supporting granular synthesis?

Alchemy is hard to program and I kind of feel it is time consuming to create my own patches since you have to be jumping all over the place to come up with your own patches. For now it may be better off for me just to purchase sounds than to make my own in alchemy. I know one thing alchemy and absynth 5 are both difficult to make your own sounds out of scratch but again it takes alot of skills and patiance.

Strange, really. Cause I totally feel the opposite! For me Alchemy is very easy to program and it's one of the easiest synths around to get amazing sounds without too much effort and hours spent. Well, to each its own

Strange, really. Cause I totally feel the opposite! For me Alchemy is very easy to program and it's one of the easiest synths around to get amazing sounds without too much effort and hours spent. Well, to each its own