GRM Tools Atelier

Atelier is a modular environment for creative sound manipulation and generative synthesis, designed to encourage an exploratory approach to music making, and inviting you to play it like an instrument. Eight simple but powerful modules, a completely novel polyadic modulation engine, unbounded multichannel processing... and much more.

More than 30 years after the first release of our legendary software suite, GRM Tools, we are proud to introduce Atelier, a new milestone in GRM's software history and the beginning of a new era.

Atelier is a reinvention of the venerable GRM Tools suite: while respecting and preserving the underlying philosophy, it bears no single line of code in common with its older sibling.

Patch, play, discover

ina - GRM says Atelier is a sandbox for the curious, a platform for exploring endless sonic ideas. Modular at its core, multichannel from the ground up, it is a modern tool for all sound adventurers.

Standing on decades of research in audio signal processing and electronic lutherie, Atelier is the new software platform in the GRM Tools series, coming straight from INA grm's research & development department and developed in close connection with GRM's avant-garde composers and sound designers.

Atelier comprises a set of Modules, which are freely chainable and connectible: Processors which generate or transform sound, and Modulators which generate modulations, freely assignable to any parameter.

Modules

Every module has simple and easy to understand functions: everything is observable and documented, nothing is a black box; there is no wrong way to use them. Just by playing, you will learn how things work, and discover new uses for the tools. Keep it simple or build something complex.

Atelier Features

• Polyadic Modulation Engine: A novel modulation paradigm: making it fast and expressive to build complex, evolving patches. Everything modulatable, no artifacts.
• Full Multichannel Support: Create in stereo, quad, or 64+ channels without changing how you work. Perfect for spatial composition.
• Groundbreaking yet simple modules: From granular delays to multi-playhead samplers, modules are simple and understandable, yet reward curiosity and creative misuse.
• Hybrid Workflow: Sound generation and processing in one place; build an advanced synth, a granular FX chain, or something never seen before.
• Parameter Morphing: Transition between module snapshots or randomize parameters with smooth sonic interpolation, ideal for performance, evolving patches or simply to be surprised.

ina - GRM have partnered with Andrew Huang to introduce Atelier. Discover Atelier with Andrew: {See video at top of page}