in a way the granulated makes for life
now is yeah a bit the result of 12 years
of occupation of the topic in the first
place I made it because I like the
granular synthesis sounds and I made a
mix for life instrument out of it
because I just want to have the
convenience to use it as a finished
product
I like textures slowly evolving things
so I try to build an instrument which
allows me to quickly get those sounds
I also like this idea of sharing here
because I made the kinda lighter for me
anyway and now it's there why not
sharing it
the granulator is as the name implies
granular synthesis based sample playback
instrument it goes beyond what you could
do with normal sampling at the same time
it does not replace a sampler basic idea
behind granular synthesis is that you
take a very short piece of sound like
really a fraction of a second and you
loop it and you playback the stream of
loops then you can apply all kinds of
modulations to this loop the classical
thing to do is smearing it in time so
you're looping one single portion of a
sound file which will just generate a
very static sound and then you just
randomize the position so they become
this kind of swarm of sonic particles
and this is what's the magic of granular
synthesis just a tiny little bit random
to the position and suddenly you get the
pad sound and if I move a little bit the
position of the loop then I can decide
if I want to have the beginning of the
the airtec face as part of it sometimes
like now or if I only want to get the
the part out the attack its transpose
this downside and need to reach solo and
what you're hearing now has no reverb on
it that's a really a completely dry
signal if I turn off the release it's
gone there's no reverb so all the sense
of space there is just from the
synthesis itself
so let's fool around a little bit with
it again a little bit high frequency
content by RFM and a little bit a
modulation of the position terms the
random wave form a tiny little bit
modulation
so yeah that's a good example how to
make a lash cord out of everything let's
make it a little bit noisier this
waveform here is absolutely not
according to the book
that's a noise waveform as a source for
the envelope and that's just plain wrong
but the music plane wrong could be
exactly right let's listen to what it
does
so it's a very cool machine for pets
which sound noisy and dirty in a way at
the same time very lush a good example
for a classical way how I use this
specific noisy characteristics of
granular synthesis is on the track
fragile from the gravity album where the
whole background atmosphere is created
with granular synthesis and this creates
this always changing modulating kind of
field in the background this is what I
personally find a music always
interesting this a very rigid structure
combined with elements which are very
loose and in terms of granular synthesis
this vagueness is a sonic characteristic
which I like
you