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granular

Builds sound from many short fragments of a source.

Also called grain granular synthesis texture

Part of synth

Related sampler

11 plugins in this category. Also as Turtle.

Bifractalizer

Bifractalizer— Andrew Kotov

An audio plugin that fractalizes and defractalizes sound 😺

free open source MIT VST3 effect instrument synth granular

dm-GrainDelay

dm-GrainDelay— Dave Mollen

A granular delay effect, written in Rust and compilable to LV2 or MOD Audio plugin formats.

free open source GPL-3.0 LV2 effect instrument synth delay granular

dm-TimeWarp

dm-TimeWarp— Dave Mollen

Granular delay, looper & sampler plugin with time stretch capabilities

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 LV2 AudioUnit CLAP effect instrument synth delay granular

DrumCloud

DrumCloud— Fuimadane

Granular sample instrument that loads your own samples and manipulates them into massive atmospheric soundscapes, with built-in cloud reverb and a state variable filter

free open source ISC VST3 LV2 CLAP effect instrument synth sampler reverb granular

Gamelanizer

Gamelanizer— Luke M Craig

A real-time audio effect plugin inspired by the processes of traditional Indonesian Gamelan music. Accompanying material for the DAFx19 paper.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit effect instrument synth granular

GlitchNexus

GlitchNexus— OTODESK

Granular glitch multi-effect plugin with a cross-modulation engine and a 16-step sequencer for controlled destruction

free open source AGPL-3.0 VST3 effect midi instrument synth sequencer granular

gRainbow

gRainbow— Strange Loops Audio

Granular synthesizer that uses pitch detection to choose harmonically matched grain candidates from a sample, producing MIDI-playable, polyphonic textures without the inharmonic artifacts of typical granular synths.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 LV2 AudioUnit Standalone midi instrument synth sampler granular

LayerEngine

LayerEngine— samplaman

Quad-layer granular synthesizer for sound design and atmospheric textures, with per-layer position/pitch/density jitter, filters, spatialization, modulation and a global FX suite (chorus, delay, phaser, limiter).

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit CLAP Standalone effect instrument modulation synth granular

Oi, Grandad!

Oi, Grandad!— Modular Samples

Four-voice granular sampler with modulation and resynthesis capabilities, built with HISE.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit Standalone instrument synth sampler granular

Prism

Prism— powerpcme

Granular sampler with 10 independent voices, each with its own sample, loop, and modulation state, per-voice DSP (pitch shift, overdrive, bit crush, AM), and an XY pad for pan/volume placement

free open source AGPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit Standalone instrument synth sampler granular

The Archaeologist

The Archaeologist— larrymarmalade

Generative resampler / memory instrument — listens to your playing, archives it, and re-excavates fragments as degraded, transformed memory objects

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit Standalone instrument synth sampler granular