Vara Osiria Belich is taking Phase Plant to gestural, mangled frontiers

This is not granular. This is all sampler, unison. And so it sounds like things that even granular can’t do. Vara Osiria Belich is this week’s sound design inspiration, with her bonus gestural spell casting with gen-1 Leap Motion. (Remember?)

How to get started with SoundThread and CDP: wild free sound tools

Composers Desktop Project has been producing secret sauce of sound spelunkers since the cooperative began in 1986. But it’s receiving newfound attention — partly because of the revelation Aphex Twin used it, but mostly because we finally get a usable GUI. Here’s your guide to how to install this on Mac, Windows, or Linux, and how to dive into the rabbit hole.

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2025

Torso S-4’s 2.0 OS makes it the performance sampler it wanted to be

Torso Electronics S-4 already looked compelling – hard-core granular sampler hardware just when that genre needed a boost. But we were waiting on the 2.0 OS to deliver on that promise. Now it’s here, with macros, scenes, varispeed recording, unlimited sample length, dynamic modulation, and more.

Peter Kirn - June 18, 2025

Live round-up: 12.2 is out, vids, a free Grain Slicer Rack, tuner, and more

Peter Kirn - June 12, 2025

Imaginando GRFX puts granular effects in sweet harmony: review

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2025

Intellijel Multigrain, a stereo morphing granular sampler module

Peter Kirn - April 11, 2025

Serum 2: wavetable champ becomes much more in huge, free update

Peter Kirn - March 17, 2025

Whatever the Weather II: Loraine James talks about the alias and the album

Peter Kirn - March 14, 2025

Polyend Synth is a $499 polysynth with grid and a ton of synth engines

Peter Kirn - November 12, 2024

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