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NEL Incline gets an Easter update with improved display, output quality — and echo
Your mission to investigate sonic anomalies could use a holiday boost. NeverEngine Labs’ Incline gets a significant update today, festively labeled as an “Easter egg.” Now you get internal echo in playback, high-fidelity audio output options and tweaks, and proper zoom.
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Incline, “toposonic corpus explorer,” transforms granular synthesis
Imagine granular synthesis, taken in entirely different dimensions. That’s Incline — Cristian Vogel’s cross-bred mixture of microsound and machine learning segmentation. It explodes sounds into a highly configurable topography, then applies precise envelopes, with unique rhythmic and textural results. Here’s how to explore those strange new worlds.
Peter Kirn - March 30, 2026
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Free experimental and ambient bank for Grainferno, plus sound design tips
Chattering hyperreal vocal rhythms, delicate sparkling piano gestures, spacey pads — I’ve built a free bank for you for Baby Audio Grainferno. Here’s the download (direct download link), plus some tips on making your own sounds and banks. Download and try now Thanks to Baby Audio for partnering with CDM and helping support this pack […]
Peter Kirn - March 13, 2026
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Fractiv wants to make granular sound easier to shape, sculpt, and play
Peter Kirn - January 16, 2026
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JW-Modules free Grains, Buffer are must-downloads for VCV Rack
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2026
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Torso S-4’s 2.0 OS makes it the performance sampler it wanted to be
Peter Kirn - June 18, 2025
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