KVR Audio

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:52 am

https://sugar-bytes.de/graindad

Did not have the time to test or demo yet, but coming from Sugar Bytes I'm pretty sure it's quality stuff, going to be a pretty hot one (and very glitchy I'm sure

) and appreciated by alot.

Since I haven't seen any thread about it, well there you go.

More grains!

Sinisterbr · Post by **Sinisterbr** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:12 am

Shouldn't it be in the instruments forum?

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:22 am

Sinisterbr wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:12 am Shouldn't it be in the instruments forum?

It's an effect. It can be used for granular synthesis and played with MIDI, but the main thing it does is process incoming audio.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:37 am

foosnark wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:22 am
Sinisterbr wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:12 am Shouldn't it be in the instruments forum?
It's an effect. It can be used for granular synthesis and played with MIDI, but the main thing it does is process incoming audio.

Exactly.

Straight from website product page, the first line: "Graindad is a granular effect for high quality realtime audio manipulation. Freeze, texturize or reorganize & slice your audio, triggered by transients, clocks or MIDI notes."

plexuss · Post by **plexuss** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:53 am

It's an effect. I just bought it. $49USD because have their Sugar Bundle. Sweet. Downloading the combined installer 4GB so should be able to fire it up soon.

Neon Breath · Post by **Neon Breath** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 3:09 am

plexuss wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 2:53 am It's an effect. I just bought it. $49USD because have their Sugar Bundle. Sweet. Downloading the combined installer 4GB so should be able to fire it up soon.

Let us know what you think after some experiments and exploration

plexuss · Post by **plexuss** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:29 am

I was able to produce something with it. This is a drum machine (Beat Scholar) and a bass synth (RPapen SubBoomBass2). The synth has a Graindad on it. The drums are split off into 4 tracks: dry, left, right, centre. Each of left right centre has its own Graindad. Each Graindad has a separate factory preset. I automated the mix. It's just nonesense but shows some capability. I haven't dug into the engines or done any programming yet...

(streaming track on bandcamp. I'm going to stop using SoundCloud.)
This is all glitchy presets. Graindad can do much more however. I haven't got to programming it. Just flip through this to hear different glitcht effects. Still pretty useful/cool....

https://plexus.bandcamp.com/track/graindad

Andreya_Autumn · Post by **Andreya_Autumn** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:22 am

My impression from a distance is this really cool. I'm not using granular effects much, and have been very happy with RIBS for the occasions when I do. If that ever changes though, this will be on the shortlist to check out.

Totally unrelated to the plugin itself: Not so long ago, that trailer video would've blown everyone's frickin minds. Even today's standards I feel like that's a bit overkill for a plug-in release trailer. But probably animation like this has gotten so much cheaper to do that this is in fact a sensible level of ambition for the context. Or they wouldn't have done it I guess. Tech sure is advancing...

Fleer · Post by **Fleer** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:17 pm

Pretty interesting real time use
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_5hVT6cZk

Effectsworks · Post by **Effectsworks** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:55 pm

Fleer wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:17 pm Pretty interesting real time use
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qe_5hVT6cZk

Fantastic!!

c_voltage · Post by **c_voltage** » Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:41 pm

Folks do anyone remember if SB big sales usually does affect to upgrade to bundle price too ? Or nope.

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 3:59 am

Looks good. I really love Sugar Bytes and their experimental attitude towards everything.

gaggle of hermits · Post by **gaggle of hermits** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 6:47 am

c_voltage wrote: Wed Oct 05, 2022 10:41 pm Folks do anyone remember if SB big sales usually does affect to upgrade to bundle price too ? Or nope.

not usually, maybe not ever.

iirc they generally take the bundle upgrade off the site if a big sale is on though you can send them an email to get a price.

Funky40 · Post by **Funky40** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 2:32 pm

like it, bought it,.....i was allready broke. But who cares. they deserved it. oh well

its nothing like any other granular tool i had.
the linked demos do show "some aspects" of it.
my first jamm was for example completly different than any of these takes.

what i rapidly noted: its allways ( well, mostoften) very musical.
this will make noobs sound like pro´s when it comes to make "good" glitchy tracks.
( not the usual " clickbait everybodys mind" stuff* (*read: crap...ymmv) )
i could even just jamm with it, and it often soundet like tracks
probably a gamechanger for some types of production
( while i´m not into production work myself. just creating "nice" realtime-play patches, and jamm with it)

martiu · Post by **martiu** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 4:33 pm

It is very good, never enough granular and reverbs for me, but i am experimental soul

Sugar Bytes Graindad - new realtime granular FX