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Granulate is a Granulator VST Plugin (and Standalone .exe) modelled after a famous Granulator plugin from a certain DAW, but in a version that is not available anymore. It focuses on the basic elements that any granulator should have: A sample playback engine with choosable amounts of grains, their position, their spread around an interval and their duration. You can either press a MIDI note for resampling, or click on the loaded waveform to hear the sound grains around the position you click.

Version 1.1 improves file loading safety. The new version requires a bit more CPU, but with it you can now load audio files that are up to 3 hours long (albeit everything longer than 1 hour is experimental since then the memory required will be in the low gigabyte range instead of a few megabytes for shorter files). The earlier version 1.0 is still provided in the download but WILL CRASH YOUR DAW when you load any file longer than 5 minutes (and probably less than that in some cases, like file format etc.).

Please note (haha) that only clicking a part of the waveform is intended, when you click and drag the mouse it still works but you will hear some crackle sounds while moving (which are not too loud though).

A visual representation of the grains as small playback heads is also provided.

Thanks for checking it out! As with my other plugins, this too was made with the help of AI.

Controls

Load Sample: Opens a file browser to import a supported audio file.

Waveform Display: Visualizes the sample and allows you to click or drag to set the playback position.

Grains: Controls the number or density of grains playing simultaneously.

Size: Sets the duration of each individual audio grain.

Position: Selects the point in the sample buffer where grains are currently being grabbed from.

Spray: Adds random variation to the playback position to create a wider texture.

Window: Defines the width of the playable area around the current position cursor.

G-ADSR: Attack / Decay / Sustain / Release. Shapes the volume envelope of each individual grain.

N-ADSR: Shapes the volume envelope of the overall MIDI note.

AM: Applies amplitude modulation to the grains.

AM Disp: Adds random variation to the amplitude modulation.

Pitch Disp: Adds random pitch variation to the grains.

Pitch (Mouse): Manually changes the playback pitch offset for the mouse click mode.

Stereo: Randomizes the panning of grains to widen the stereo image.

Volume: Controls the master output level of the plugin.

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Granulate VST  ( 22 MB )

size 3 MB

FourHead is an experimental granulator effect, despite not really being a delay or a granulator, though it lives in that realm.

It is based on an audio buffer which constantly records the input in chunks. This buffer is then read by four “play heads” which play it back as looped segments.

The length of the chunk to be played back is set independently from the length of the recorded buffer, and the pitch and start offset for each “head” can be modulated (the playback on 3 of the 4 heads can also be delayed), creating odd retriggering arpeggiations and granular-style swarms of sound.

The output can also be fed back to the record buffer for endless noisy fun.

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fsa-fourhead  ( 3.3 MB )