Granular Synthesis On Your iPhone, For 1 American Dollar

This is a demo of Curtis (App Store link), a $1 granular synthesizer application for the iPhone. Description: Granular synthesis works by combining many tiny grains of sound from an existing recording, generally creating new sounds with the textural properties of the recording. Granular synthesis allows you to regenerate the recording, playing it forward or… Read More Granular Synthesis On Your iPhone, For 1 American Dollar

Curtis Roads And The Secrets Of Granular Synthesis

Curtis Roads is a composer, author and computer programmer specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis. He co-founded the International Computer Music Association in 1980 and edited the Computer Music Journal for over 23 years. He has created software including PulsarGenerator and the Creatovox, both with Alberto de Campo. In this series of interviews, Roads talks… Read More Curtis Roads And The Secrets Of Granular Synthesis

Aaron McLeran’s Granular Synthesis Piano Tranformation

Composer Aaron McLeran has posted a series of “digital etudes”, each based on a solo piano recording that has been treated to various granular synthesis techniques: Until recently, a downside to granular synthesis was the fact that there was no good way to build meaningful granular models of sound. This is not the case with… Read More Aaron McLeran’s Granular Synthesis Piano Tranformation

Audio Ease releases the Nautilus Bundle v2 for OSX

Audioease has released the updated Nautilus Bundle for OSX (Mac G4 or G5). It consists of three audio plug-ins for RTAS, HTDM, MAS, Audio Unit and VST. Improvements over the previous version include additional automation features, support for surround formats and high sample rates. RiverRun is a Granular Soundscape Synthesizer capable of oozing immense sonic… Read More Audio Ease releases the Nautilus Bundle v2 for OSX