Grainity

Description

A sound sculpting tool with a unique approach

Check out my Youtube video (link, or see below) for a comprehensive analysis. In it, you can find several patch examples:

• Bass line generated by Grainity. I’m sending in a high pitched note sequence. Grainity outputs a suboscillator, but at the same time distorts and adds harmonics.
• Percussion through Grainity. By setting the two built-in filters to low and hi pass mode, you can cross-fade using the frequency slides. This cross-fade gives you the high frequency part of the granular filter, but the low frequency part of the multimode filter.
• Giving a drone texture with Grainity. By sequencing Grainity’s structure, we get strange, chopped-up, even chiptune like sounds.

Patch docs are below in the Links section.

Official specs:

Digitally-controlled full-analog granular + multimode VCF

• Unique concept of granular VCF
• 100% analog audio path
• Two simultaneous filter flows, Granular VCF and Multimode VCF, with separate outputs
• Mixing of both filter’s output to a dedicated out
• Phase inversion switching between the two filters
• Shared frequency and resonance controls
• Multimode filter with various types and poles
• Self-resonance capability
• Granular filter with unique controls:
  • Structure selection from a predefined list
  • Division to extend the grains length
  • Phase setting of the cycling point
  • Tracking and offset tuning of the cycles
• Detect input for cycling unrelated to audio input
• 7 CV inputs to control all settings
• Current settings maintained over power cycle
• Firmware update via a simple audio file
• Eloxal printed aluminium (silver panel)
  or bath anodized brushed aluminium (black panel)
• Compact and skiff-friendly module

Links

Patch notes from the Youtube video

Official manufacturer page: https://www.klavis.com/all-products/grainity

ModularGrid page: https://modulargrid.net/e/klavis-grainity

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