Grainspace (audiority), anything similar/better?

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Yeah GRM Tools' Granular has crazy routable outputs. I've never bothered to set it up. I started making something in pure data that had lots of per grain processing but it turned into a mess that was only good for making wacky noise.

GRM Tools isn't recommended by me. I bought the GRM Collection used by mistake and sold it within days totally unsatisfied.

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Autochroma by imagiro.

Absolute hidden gem of a plugin.

It's essentially three granular engines running together.

Cannot recommend it highly enough.

thanks for that, i try to get all granulators i can find, except Crusher X, it is too expensive

I wouldn’t really mind the price if I could get over its interface, which I feel is pretty terrible for a commercial product. I’ve been using granular effects since River Run (Part of a long discontinued Nautilus Effects bundle by Audio Ease) and I could barely figure it out. I like a lot of options, but at some point, things get out of hand for me.

The interface is fantastic. It's one of the best parts of the effect.

From left to right you have scanner position modes, spacing, frequency and duration, pitch, grain envelope, filter, panning and volume.

Extended parameters indicated by an arrow where applicable.

Each engine is the same. Double click the number to activate and right click on each engine number to copy from one engine to another.

Modulation is literally drag the dot onto the parameter you want to modulate and use the standard mouse up and down to control modulation depth. Right click if you want unipolar function.

The little window in the bottom is the buffer which you can drag as audio into your daw or back into the plugin itself.

I had the whole plugin figured out in about 5 minutes.

It also looks beautiful.

I don't know what could be clearer.

Fragments or Silo are far more opaque to me.

autochroma is a gem and the other post mentions Crusher X. Major CPU hog highly recommended though. And the Fragments plugin is one of the best out there but requires online access.

[bmanic]

Grainspace is awesome. Here's a track I made with it back in 2018

[Gam456]

Grainspace is awesome. Here's a track I made with it back in 2018

Yes too underrated and more than just a granular effect

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Grainspace is one of those plugins where I think the GUI has always just put me off. It's just a mass of knobs. Everything kind of ends up with equal weight from a visual perspective but with so many knobs, it's like they're all unimportant.

I just use the Arturia grain thingy when the inspiration hits. If Grainspace had a more modern, fun, UI, I'd probably have bought it years ago. Might be a cool thing for Audiority: to have "hardware-like" GUI's for the hardware emulations, but something more modern and visually appealing for things like Grainspace, Polaris, the multiband Comp, etc.

I probably shouldn't care but I do. Even more recent Valhalla stuff will use different-sized knobs and puts the important controls towards the left with less important stuff on the right with fewer controls visible on the page. So even something like that could work.

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I agree with you. Redesigning the non-emulation in a modern way was always in the back of my mind

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oh, please do Luca! Grainspace deserves all the love it can get.