what is coming up next – NDVR & Stuff

Mosaik is a granular beat matching tool for 16×32 slots with live input with beat & transient detection. it’s so to say some kind of DJing approach but also the engine we know from Ableton Live and Bitwig which is coming to town at the same time – End of March. # this is a player not a DAW but maybe they focus on audio quality since the newer IOS devices are more and more powerful and even got 64bit. Musikmesse is near, so this is not the only one, the…

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Qu-Bit Elektronix – Nebulae – the VSynth kind of CV Module (Granular)

this one i simply like – sort of CV’able Sample Module – like the VP9000 (VSynth) Engine – freeze – granular movement in any direction without evil things.. not cheap, – USD429 – don’t know the price in € / over here since schneider does not have it so far – but .. nevertheless very cool. <3 -> Manual PDF – Plays .wav, .aif, .flac , and .ogg files from a USB device – No naming convention for files – Independent control of pitch and speed – 1V/oct pitch tracking…

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Madrona Labs Kaivo Granular Synth

you do know it – I am a fan of Aalto, and they or Randy makes an new Aalto influenced plugin which is not the same but a new concept which will base on grains and granular synthesis and it has physical modeling in it.. aaaand – it can access and play samples – well it’s playing it granularly.  here’s a little preview since it’s not yet out – but you can get Aalto for $49 these days for a limited time period. very interested in checking it out ..

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granular sampler for iPad – Granular App collection list: Borderlands,iDensity & Performance Samplers

Borderlands.is a nice granular sampler which is (hence the name) between everyhing from reactable to sample wiz‘ – as you can see – it’s also beautiful, not just sounding. aaand there’s 2D directional sample waveforms placed when working with it – looks a lot like getting it for my stage noises.. still hope for a cool Ensoniq EPS/ASR’ish AU Plugin – means granular PLUS modulation of loops, position and multiple ways of playing the sample back & forth – AND App for the iPad..–>  ipad granular there’s still nothing that…

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The Granulizator – Granular synthesis tool for Ableton Live – YouTube

The Granulizator – Granular synthesis tool for Ableton Live – it’s Max4Live, so here’s a little Demo, the sample position can be varied so it greates a lot of IDM style FX, there are 2 well known granulators as well (one by Mr. Henke, the other one by Steinberg) and there is granite Requires Max for Live Features – buffer size from 1ms to 10s – 5 parameters to control grains (pitch, noise pitch, length, gain, stereo) – 2 sources possible (grab audio from input OR use a sample from your…

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Padshop – Granularsynth by Steinberg.

Padshop is the repsonse to Monolakes „Granular Synth“ for Max for Live and Granite, this one looks like loopable kind of thing in here as well (envelope?) not a bad idea – well, it says 2 LFOs, ADSRs, 10slot Modmatrix and Step Sequencer for modulation – the sample grain action display looks like this:  (in deutsch) Forum: Steinberg kündigt einen Granularsynthesizer an

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