The Malty VST effect is designed for hosts such as Orion, sadly lacking in granular facilities. Malty is an analogue style delay line granulator with built in filtering and auto-panning. Hmmm. Nice. It can turn skip textures into smooth things; rearrange rhythms; turn sustained textures into stuttering snippets, and is happy to render your original audio quite unrecognisable. Although primarily aimed at VST hosts lacking in granular abilities, it compliments Audio Mulch well, offering an attractive alternative to Mulch's sophisticated granular contraptions.
Sonix: A single-stream quasi-synchronous granulator
which also features an analog filter to further
manipulate the sound with a smooth lowpass
phatpass (with some big bottom end)and highpass formant hybrid settings ...
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(Quality freeware and commercial soft synth's and vst effects,also preset packs(sound-sets)for popular commercial soft synths).
Cyclotron x2: an experimental granular signal modifier. Samples grains from the incoming audio, replays them at a specified rate, whilst performing an optional degree of pitch-shifting on each grain.
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The resulting audio can be fed back to the Cyclotron's input, the three main sections (pitcher, grain size & rate) can be modulated via their in-built lfo's, and an adjustable amount of randomness can be applied to the settings for each grain. Grain repitching can also be conrolled by incoming midi notes.
With judicious tweaking and modulation, the Cyclotron can create some seriously weird faux-timestretching, buffer override effects, repitched echoes and more.
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