It probably won't change your mind, but as the developer of this plugin, I still felt I should probably clarify some of the statements you made:
Well, as with all the other min/max slider combo's, the left slider is for the min. value and the right is for the max. value. It's not as if the left slider should determine panning to the left, and the right slider determine panning to the right (if you put both sliders at the max. then what should that mean? as much left as right?). It actually means that all grains will have high panning values, which means panned towards the right (and vice versa). Just tried it again and it works fine in Cubaseon the pan sliders, the left one shifts pan to the right; and vice versa
(and also Live):
Yes, you can: as we noticed very quickly that this seems to be purely a matter of personal preference, we allow the user to choose the knob behavior: see the manual (or just click on the "settings" icon at the bottom right): Sorry about the noise/beeps in the demo: as a workaround (and I realize it's not an optimal solution to your annoyance), while trying out the plugin, you could just quickly remove the plugin and put it back to get another new test period without any demo noise/beeps.can't click and hold and move mouse up and down--rather have to swing the knob around
It's a compromise: between making sure people can experience the full plugin while trying out a few things for some time vs. avoiding that people just keep using the demo plugin without buying it even if they really use it (which was actually what happened when the "non-polluted" demo time was much longer after we released the plugin years ago...) Simple time-limitations easily get cracked/worked around, so we built in something that directly works on the audio instead. But yeah, maybe the kick-in times are a bit too short now...
You're right, there is no preset control in the plugin window itself as it's the host's task to provide a uniform interface for preset browsing/selection for all plugins. But that doesn't mean you can't easily switch/select presets. See below for an excerpt from the manual again (with some info specifically for Live, which seem to handle presets slightly better for the VST version than for the AU version):No preset window/tab in the interface. In Live, it shows up in the device container thing's pull-down. I dislike this very much. Live has no quick scroll to flip through them (anyone know of a shortcut for this?).
This plugin was originally inspired by one of the granular contraptions in Ross' AudioMulch, which had/has(?) similar "double sliders"Man, I dig these sliders. You can lock a range and then slide it up and down. I haven't seen this before in a plugin (feel free to inform me).
Anyway, long post, and this probably won't change your mind, as I understand you have a few other granular plugins already, but just wanted to take the time to clarify things a bit.
All the best!
Koen
PS
I don't know if the other plugins you have can do this, but with SaltyGrain you can also live-sample the real-time audio stream and then use a MIDI keyboard to "play the grains" live (with the sample buffer either frozen or still live streaming). See section 7.2 in the manual for that. I believe someone from Sigur Rós once told me they like this feature a lot. Someone should actually do a video of this at some time
