Favorite granular effect?

[Ah_Dziz]

Oh damn.. RS met pitch shifter is actually a pretty nifty granular processor (designed for simple pitch shifting, but capable of some very odd stuff).

[Neon Breath]

I'm a big fan of salty grain or reaktor for most stuff. I use crusher x when I gotta get super crazy. My issue with most of the real-time buffer granulizer effects out there is that most of them won't let you generate grains fast enough or or small enough to achieve many of the stranger sounds that are possible with granular delays.

Speaking of which... Did you get the latest SaltyGrain update? They updated it few weeks ago with a new filtering per grains. Very cool feature that opens up lot of new possibilities instead of most granular delay using lame post-filtering. Check it out

[greententacle]

its long ago i tried grainstuff.
how's reaktor travelizer and grainstates compared to the "newer" stuff?

[Ah_Dziz]

I'm a big fan of salty grain or reaktor for most stuff. I use crusher x when I gotta get super crazy. My issue with most of the real-time buffer granulizer effects out there is that most of them won't let you generate grains fast enough or or small enough to achieve many of the stranger sounds that are possible with granular delays.

Speaking of which... Did you get the latest SaltyGrain update? They updated it few weeks ago with a new filtering per grains. Very cool feature that opens up lot of new possibilities instead of most granular delay using lame post-filtering. Check it out

Why thank you! I didn't know that had happened.

[Neon Breath]

I'm a big fan of salty grain or reaktor for most stuff. I use crusher x when I gotta get super crazy. My issue with most of the real-time buffer granulizer effects out there is that most of them won't let you generate grains fast enough or or small enough to achieve many of the stranger sounds that are possible with granular delays.

Speaking of which... Did you get the latest SaltyGrain update? They updated it few weeks ago with a new filtering per grains. Very cool feature that opens up lot of new possibilities instead of most granular delay using lame post-filtering. Check it out

Why thank you! I didn't know that had happened.

https://www.samplesumo.com/product/saltygrain

[chrisstiles]

I'm a big fan of salty grain or reaktor for most stuff. I use crusher x when I gotta get super crazy. My issue with most of the real-time buffer granulizer effects out there is that most of them won't let you generate grains fast enough or or small enough to achieve many of the stranger sounds that are possible with granular delays.

Which Granular delays would you suggest looking at ?

[Neon Breath]

its long ago i tried grainstuff.
how's reaktor travelizer and grainstates compared to the "newer" stuff?

I think they really are showing their age, compared to the newer granular ensembles built lately like:

Grip https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/7775/

Cirrus Grain https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... show/8813/

Modulatable https://www.native-instruments.com/en/r ... how/13625/

And much more in the User Library...

[greententacle]

thanks for the link, will try.
for me, that grainstuff is like a diva. nice to hear solo for a few seconds, put hardly fit in a song context.

[Neon Breath]

thanks for the link, will try.
for me, that grainstuff is like a diva. nice to hear solo for a few seconds, put hardly fit in a song context.

Depends greatly what you mean by 'song'. Depends on the context, style & the genre. In a typical rock song, it would probably be a challenge to make fit granular clouds for sure. In Electronic music, glitch, techno, sound design, much more easier & useful.

See, I'm an ambient artist and granular synthesis is part of every pieces I create. So it really depends on the material you work on. Definitely not a swiss knife technique.

[greententacle]

for ambient it's great, i think.
but haven't heard anything weird and freaky.
or seldom. most time it sounds like a pad with a bell on it.

[WasteLand]

for ambient it's great, i think.
but haven't heard anything weird and freaky.
or seldom. most time it sounds like a pad with a bell on it.

that has granular most become, pad like... but it is capable of so many textures, results, quite unlimited. make drum sounds out of recording, or synth track... that have there 'own' live, still synced..
or extract a new layer of sound from several sources, can be quite freaky...

[greententacle]

thats what i was always looking for. something rythmical synced without cutting it in the sequencer.

[Neon Breath]

for ambient it's great, i think.
but haven't heard anything weird and freaky.
or seldom. most time it sounds like a pad with a bell on it.

You obviously haven't listened to the right things if you think it's only good for belly pads and it cannot sound crazy. Granular is very powerfu when used in skilled hands and is capable of many sonic possibilities, from deep lush pads to crunchy, organic textures & brittle glassy particles.

[Neon Breath]

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[greententacle]

show me, please.
i was always dreaming about a acoustic guitar track, slowly get atomized in small pieces.
can i do that with granular?