KTGranulator is a free delay line granulator available as a VST effect plugin with custom editor and as a MacOSX Audio Unit. It was made as an exploration in building VST effect plugins and using the VSTGUI library and was inspired by the great DLGranulator effect in Ross Bencina's AudioMulch.
It works like this: incoming (mono) sound is fed into a delay line from which small pieces of various durations and at different moments in the past are selected. Each of these pieces is then amplified, transposed and enveloped to form a "grain". Each grain is also randomly panned and the whole mix is sent out to a stereo output stream. Feedback of the grain output back into the delay line is also provided, and the delay line can also be frozen so that the grains are only taken from what is currently stored in the delay line.
free vst plugin. pc, mac
GSP: this plugin is a Granular Sample Player based on AudioMulch's Bubble Flower. There are, of course, some slight differences.
Firstly, this is playable with a midi keyboard.
Secondly, this is nowhere near as CPU efficient! :D
However, it works wonderfully and is capable of producing some fantastic sounds if you experiment with it.
Granular processing
- one input to eight outputs
- based on the xtension DH_Granulator from David Haupt
- control over the speed, the duration, the shape and the pitch of each grain
- shifting of the order of the eight grains
- each grain can be separately moved or they can be controlled together in the same manner that in the SpatGroup 88 : alignement, shifts, rotation
Splinetime: shape your sound in 4 different step-sequenced dimensions :
time - speed - pitch - frequency
based upon a granular engine
splinetime features :
- 16 timesynced steps per effect dimension
- variable step length
- 16 audiobuffers or live-input
- morphing between audiobuffers
- time and frequency domain output visualisation
- resonant filter
- full parameter automation