I do like Granite, but I rarely use it now that I have The Mangle. Its range seems fairly narrow; it's great for getting lush, modulated smears of sound quickly, but it's quite difficult to push it into spiky, fractured territory. Very much a tool tailored toward a specific sound rather than an open-ended, all-purpose granular machine to my mind.Neon Breath wrote:Yeah I agree with you, it’s not the best sounding granular sampler around. But its workflow is unique and easily leads to a creative path, especially with those loop points & parameters recordable gestures.Dasheesh wrote:It’s pretty basic in operation and still sounds hard and glitch (very digital sounding granular) but ya, that’s what I’m looking at. They also have other great sampler options the OP might like more.Neon Breath wrote:Check New Sonic Arts Granite. Very well done and built, easy to use and fun. Granular synthesis used in a 'sampler' philosophy, to mangle beyond recognition any audio material you want.
Has OP considered looking at Padshop Pro? It's a tremendously powerful granular sampler. Waiting for it to go on sale here.
Polygon is superb too. Monophonic sadly. Although it was marketed and built as a sound effects machine, it works great on 'musical' material too. I quite like loading old classic rave samples into it to give the sounds a modern spin - you can really destroy things while still preserving a lot of the character.
