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Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:03 pm

Curtis Roads as a consultant and helper?!!? Man that's like the Steven Spielberg of granular!

Soarer · Post by **Soarer** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:19 pm

Wow..! I new you guys must have thought about it!

Great news!

mt3 · Post by **mt3** » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:48 pm

dandezebra wrote:You guys going to have the first synth that PA sells?

They already have the first SpecOps and first Sandman and first Fault that PA sells.

martinjuenke · Post by **martinjuenke** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 7:55 am

Sounds quite interesting, innovative, instabuy...

cron · Post by **cron** » Thu Jan 25, 2018 10:40 pm

thelizard wrote:The granulator is something that we've wanted to do since starting the company. Curtis Roads showed me a lot of excellent OS 9 granular software that had crazy amounts of power. A lot of these had, ehhh, "academic" interfaces and/or required a lot of work to use and run. He emailed me to let me know that he will happily consult with us while we design and test it. We plan on doing a granular effect this year, and potentially a granular instrument next year. Our goal is to do something similar to what we did with SpecOps: lots of algorithms and techniques distilled down to a modulation and performance friendly interface.

Oh, nice! Will we see any dictionary-based/matching pursuit granular concepts in there? I've been absolutely fascinated with the concept since reading about it, but can't find any PC software implementing it (and I'm not sure if Scatter for OSX by Roads et al is freely available outside university walls anyway). I've used Michael Klingbeil's SPEAR since my university days and that's let me play with some of the editing possibilities (e.g. deleting 'atoms' above/below a certain amplitude or duration threshold), but I'm sure I'm missing an awful lot when the only item in the 'dictionary' is a sine wave function.

tapiodmitriyevich · Post by **tapiodmitriyevich** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 4:53 am

cron wrote:Oh, nice! Will we see any dictionary-based/matching pursuit granular concepts in there?

-v

SteveWZ · Post by **SteveWZ** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 6:34 am

SpecOps for some auto vocal shifting:

https://soundcloud.com/synth-presets-co ... io-specops

bundoo · Post by **bundoo** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:55 am

which of their plugs do you guys prefer if u could only get one?

Soarer · Post by **Soarer** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:35 am

I'd say Sandman Pro since it has so many great uses. Of course SpecOps is the more exotic one now so it depends on what you want.

lnikj · Post by **lnikj** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 8:39 am

Sandman Pro for me too. I bought Sandman the day it was released, and Sandman Pro likewise.

Soarer · Post by **Soarer** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 10:08 am

So after a lot of playing around with SpecOps I made another video.

I used my Ableton Push 2 this time for the live performance and I think SpecOps works great this way. Sandman Pro does the delay/reverb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Q8BosAvIc

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:08 pm

bundoo wrote:which of their plugs do you guys prefer if u could only get one?

I use G8 Gate all the time, but in the bizarre circumstance that I could only have one of their plugins (nobody has ever been able to explain why

) I'd find another gate and stick with SpecOps.

dandezebra · Post by **dandezebra** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:23 pm

Of the ones I have, you cannot really go wrong. G8, Fault, and Sandman Pro are all amazing. It really depends what you want to do. I would guess Sandman Pro might have a more broad application for general use.

CrystalWizard · Post by **CrystalWizard** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 3:00 pm

thelizard wrote:
The granulator is something that we've wanted to do since starting the company. Curtis Roads showed me a lot of excellent OS 9 granular software that had crazy amounts of power. A lot of these had, ehhh, "academic" interfaces and/or required a lot of work to use and run. He emailed me to let me know that he will happily consult with us while we design and test it. We plan on doing a granular effect this year, and potentially a granular instrument next year. Our goal is to do something similar to what we did with SpecOps: lots of algorithms and techniques distilled down to a modulation and performance friendly interface.

Wow, that's seriously cool. I vote for a granulator that isn't that simple. Something that goes deep down the granular rabbit hole!

Jonny Quest · Post by **Jonny Quest** » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:16 pm

Soarer wrote:So after a lot of playing around with SpecOps I made another video.

I used my Ableton Push 2 this time for the live performance and I think SpecOps works great this way. Sandman Pro does the delay/reverb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Q8BosAvIc

That's rad

Did you start with a specops preset or your own setting?

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