Not at all what your asking for but i recently downloaded EmissionControl2 and have been loving its granularised sounds and its scientific appearance

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Hologram Microcosm is super fun for real time granulation and many other time based effects! If you’re looking purely for granulation it doesn’t have as many controls as some other options, but it more than makes up for it with overall versatility and playability.

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Gotharman’s Little Deformer 3 mk2 can granulate live inputs, as can Waldorf Iridium. Yet each is far more than a granular effect, and more expensive than a GR-1.

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Yes, I love it too!
I can’t yet reproduce the kind of things I use to do with Hourglass though, and I really miss that one…

Im not familiar with that one unfortunately. IPlusaret on ios is also impressive and well presented

I’m curious what kind of things? I never really dug into hourglass, but others have spoken highly of it. Does it have some specific capability?

Well for me it was the ability to have looped envelopes for some automations and at the same time MIDI control for improvising with other parameters, it helped create variations of the same mouvements, with one impro you could make quite a few one shot sounds that would feel like they belong together and still have some differences, like words from the same foreign language…
And I like how you could synchronise stuff easily too, and the global sound it had. Oh And you could use VSTs inside it and control their parameters the same way…