Lucid slices, stretches, and scrubs sound like no other granular FX

Talking granular effects is like talking ice cream — it’s all about the different flavors. So look at what Minimal Audio has given us: Lucid is a pulsing purple granular multi-effect. And it’s capable of everything from bleeding-edge and ambient drones to animated, tempo-synced rhythmic sliced mayhem. It’s in control when you want it — rhythmically, and in key — and totally extreme when you want that, too.

Imaginando GRFX puts granular effects in sweet harmony: review

Just when you think you’ve had enough granular effects, Imaginando’s GRFX does everything right. That includes fine-tuned harmonies (including microtuning), per-grain effects, and drag-and-drop modulation from four LFOs.

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2025

GrainyDay for Max for Live opens up elegant streams of sound

There are grain effects aplenty, but AVAL’s latest hits on a uniquely satisfying sound processor in Ableton Live, as input signals unfold into layered, pitched, organic textures.

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2023

Autochroma, a granularizer that’s designed to be fun

Peter Kirn - July 31, 2023

Dedalus Delay “delay mangler” plug-in packs in modulation, granulation

Peter Kirn - March 10, 2023

Emergence 1.0 granular plug-in arrives, with host sync, audio modulation, ADSR, presets, more

Peter Kirn - February 13, 2023

Fluss: Hainbach and Bram Bos teamed up on an iOS granular app, and it’s an instant gem

Peter Kirn - December 5, 2022

Arturia V-Collection 9, feature by feature: a dreamy, futuristic update, new and old

Peter Kirn - June 8, 2022

Free plug-ins: Finding beauty in the Emergence granular effect for Mac and Windows

Peter Kirn - February 7, 2022