Loomer unveils Shift – Diatonic Granular Pitch Shifting and Delay Effect

Loomer Shift is a real-time diatonic granular pitch shifting and delay effect for Mac & Windows. Shift has three independent true stereo delay lines with discrete time, feedback, pan, and volume controls. Each delay line can be set in one of three pitch shifting configurations (Chromatic, Recursive, or Diatonic) and transposed by as much as… Read More Loomer unveils Shift – Diatonic Granular Pitch Shifting and Delay Effect

Thumb Piano vs iPhone

Multimedia artist Marcus Fischer captured some of his experiments manipulating thumb piano with Curtis (App Store link), the granular synth app for the iPhone that’ll set you back 1 American dollar: the strange agency made this great little granular synthesis iphone application called curtis.  it’s named for composer, author, granular synth advocate curtis roads. this… Read More Thumb Piano vs iPhone

Granular Synthesis On Your iPhone, For 1 American Dollar

This is a demo of Curtis (App Store link), a $1 granular synthesizer application for the iPhone. Description: Granular synthesis works by combining many tiny grains of sound from an existing recording, generally creating new sounds with the textural properties of the recording. Granular synthesis allows you to regenerate the recording, playing it forward or… Read More Granular Synthesis On Your iPhone, For 1 American Dollar

Curtis Roads And The Secrets Of Granular Synthesis

Curtis Roads is a composer, author and computer programmer specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis. He co-founded the International Computer Music Association in 1980 and edited the Computer Music Journal for over 23 years. He has created software including PulsarGenerator and the Creatovox, both with Alberto de Campo. In this series of interviews, Roads talks… Read More Curtis Roads And The Secrets Of Granular Synthesis