#38

So I (foolishly) upgraded to Big Sur, which means I can’t begin my NuPG explorations seeing as Supercollider is non-functional. But I came across this Pulsaret m4l device today…anyone here actively using (and enjoying) it?

#39

I don’t often find that the modular grain samplers are really what I imagine when I want to chop up a signal but this thing really sounds good to me
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ-xQifh09c/?igshid=3tknea9vys18

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#40

Longer video has just been posted to youtube.

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#41

wow the harmonizer is really something. i think i’m going to have to et a small euro setup again just so i can use this thing. nice find

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#42

I have become a tough crowd when it comes to granular stuff but this thing really sounds great.

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#43

…20 times agreed !
Just posted on the

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#44

realllllly intrigued by that cornflakes… i love my arbhar to bits but ive also recently been drawn to granular engines like glut, grainshifter, cycles etc etc for how powerful/versatile the playback speed & pitch controls are & how seamlessly those fit into the workflow of each engine. cornflakes really appeals to me in that regard. esp since i dont have the funds for norns+grid to run glut full time (ive been v lucky to borrow a friends) this may be a hopefully more affordable option.

the shadow of clouds 2 will loom over all granular modules for a while it seems, esp w this one i feel since theyre both 14hp, and im def excited to see what that will look like… but cornflakes may be exactly right to replace monsooon for me (:

what other granular options do yall like lately?? specifically for playback speed/windowing/pitch controls??

#45

this looks incredible. Thanks for sharing!

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#46

that corn flakes seem to tick a lot of boxes. looking forward to fuller specs, but it seems to veer in a different direction from Arbhar.

Bicycle looks intriguing too—I hope it’s not too dumb/“quantized-only” as a looper. No feedback looping (unless you connect the two sides) that I can see.

#47

It’s the best sounding granular module I’ve ever used,if that amounts to anything.

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#48

Curious to learn more about how cornflakes does real-time granular. (The YouTube video mentions it can function as a ‘real-time effect’.) Can it granulate a continuously updating buffer (like clouds) or does it need to grab a discrete chunk of audio onto a fixed buffer (more like arbhar)?

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#49

Arbhar can do continuous granulation (of sorts) by combining the onset detection and hold duration (with hold determining how long the continuously updating buffer is)

#50

You can have it constantly rerecording the buffer with incoming audio or record the buffer and fool around with that. Sooo both?

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#51

Been really thinking about granular stuff lately in terms of what I want to do in and out of the box. @mattlowery had a nice post about sequential switches for juggling granular euro voices that got me thinking more generally about how to perform with these complex sound soueces

What is everyone’s preferred way to attack this? With such a wide variety from eurorack, Norns scripts, to VST’s and m4L plugins, what do you all view as the most performable/fun way to do music concrete compositions or to add that flavor to your music. Is it the primary focus of your music, or just something to add texture?

#52

Just to link people here to some things already on lines:

  1. Re-implementation of Curtis Road’s emission control granulator - open source
    Emission Control 2: Open-source granulator
    and

An excellent walkthrough of how to implement a granular system from scratch (in Kyma, which is a beautiful piece of software/hardware, albeit pricey) by @wave.terrains.

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#54

Hi everybody,

I am looking for a hardware device to use as a real time granulator (input coming from a mixer’s aux out), in the same way I use GRM Shuffling ITB. I thought I’d ask here as this comunity seem to know a lot of « unknkown » gems.
For now the only options I can think of are a Zynthian (Argolunar seems to be working on it), MODEP running Pd patches maybe?
Special difficulty : I won’t use modular, as I am still very fond of both my kidneys. Hum.

Any suggestion?

A good day to everybody !

#55

A friend of mine has the Tasty Chips Gr-1. He loves it.

#56

Yes this one looks very good indeed. I had no idea it could be used as an effect, I thought it was « only » a sample player with granular capability.

#57

You have to buy a separate interface, but any cheap usb interface will do. Here he is using it today:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CK_-hq8BxXL/?igshid=1wbbz9vjyiwi8

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#58

Ok, thank you!

Any idea for a device that would fill up a buffer in real time and use it as a source, with the buffer being a moving window ?