Granular Synthesis
date
Aug 13, 2023
type
Post
year
slug
granular-synthesis
status
Published
tags
Synth
Granular Synthesis
Research
summary
Split sound into tiny grains and play those back in interesting ways to create something new
One of the most interesting things I’m exploring for Synthspace is Granular Synthesis!
You take a sound and split it into many tiny segments (grains) and play those back in different ways and fade between them to create entirely new sounds. It’s quite fascinating, really. Here’s a video of me playing with all the many settings I put in for the
GranularSamplePlayerNode, in an attempt to try and figure out sensible defaults: