I’m finally getting around to doing something that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time: updating the Databending page. Put a small dent in my overall idea of progress, but my goal this weekend is to have it completely finished with tutorials worthy of gracing the same site as the Mutant Phaser and Pedal Bending Guide tutorials.
We’re less than two weeks from the release of Of Places and Moments, so I may also, sometime this weekend, get the official page up for the new project.
Speaking of databending, anyone out there have any suggestions for instruments/applications that use granular synthesis? I’m thinking of including a quick and dirty link list on the Databending page for those interested, but the only one I can think of, off the top of me own dirty head, is AtomicCloud.
As always, caveat emptor, motherfuckers.
Granular Synthesis? Well, Reaktor 5 by Native Instruments comes to mind. They have a number of VST instruments have have GS ability. Also, I think Camel Audio Alchemy does as well.
Hope that helps
Bill K
Awesome. Thanks, Bill!
U&I Software’s Metasynth uses granular features, so does AudioEase’s Th0nk!_0+2 (Mac OS 9 only), as well as a few other products from that AudioEase.
An old favorite of mine from over a decade ago was Crusher-X, although that was more for my music projects, not so much for my noise stuff.
The Cycling ’74 “Pluggo” VST/VSTi plug-in pack has a few granular goodies in it as well. If you know how to program Cycling ’74’s program “Max/MSP” you can make a ton of your own granular programs and plug-ins.
Native Instruments’ programs FM8, Absynth, and Reaktor also have granular functions, although Reaktor’s are more in depth compared to FM8 or Absynth.
Reason also has a few synths that can use granular synthesis. I never get tired of that program when it comes to actual music, although surprisingly I have made some full-blown noise compositions with that program as well.
Going back to U&I Software’s Metasynth, a very useful data-bending feature of sorts would have to be the ability to translate images into sounds, and vice-versa. The great thing about this feature is that you can get extremely specific with this program, unlike other programs that claim to have the ability to morph image to sound/sound to image.
I have tried all of the programs I have just mentioned, and I recommend any/all of them!
Sincerely,
Curtis D. Cousins/DANADAX