PolyFreq is a boutique maker of musical tools, based in Bristol, UK, energised by its deep-rooted and diverse sound culture.
Audio technologist and PolyFreq founder Nick Mariette spent over two decades at the heart of modern spatial sound. His career has navigated between high-end industry research and underground innovation, from work on the Atmos format with Dolby Laboratories, to Pure Data-driven performances, audio augmented reality, and locative art projects. Now based in Bristol, he's channelling this audio obsession into boutique instruments for sonic alchemy.
I received this plugin for free from the developer, however I will still try my best to be honest about my opinion with this plugin.
This is a fun, easy to use plugin with a good looking UI that reminds me of older plugins. It features pretty much everything you would expect to see in a granular synth, and it comes with extra powerful modulation capability for good measure. I do believe that often times the modulation capabilities this plugin has out preforms the overall feature set of the synth, leaving me to not use them as much as I would hope to. The small number of presets showcases the features well, however the number may be disappointing for those who use them. The effects are also a bit lacking, so bringing your own is a must.
Overall I think Phonon is a fun, easy to use granular addition to my collection, and I am happy that I spent time creating with it.
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