Instruments built to be taken apart
We make music software. Two of them: Grainstorm, a four-track granular sampler, and Voltaic, a wavetable and virtual analog synth. Both are on Android today, with iOS, Windows and macOS — standalone and plugin — on the way. Nothing is hidden behind a preset.
A comprehensive tool for sound design, sampling and granular synthesis. Granulate a sample in real time and give every grain its own effects, including spectral manipulation and live cross-synthesis between two tracks. Then run the finished track into a vast selection of effects.
A wavetable on three axes: 27 tables, a continuous morph axis, a warp axis on top, and a pitch axis that band-limits every one of them — so even the wavefolding is alias-free and still modulatable. Then a modal resonator bank, and eighteen filters — ladder, SEM and 303 models among them.
Sampling, granular synthesis and sound design, grain by grain
- — Four tracks. Sample editing, cut, paste and fades on each of them, all undoable.
- — Thirty-seven effects per track, from EQ and dynamics to spectral delay, convolution and modal resonators.
- — Two tracks merged into one, in real time, by any of nine cross-synthesis algorithms. It runs inside the grain engine — the FFT frame is the grain, read straight from the loaded sample, so there is no latency at all. Or merge them in the time domain on the track effects instead: 28-band channel vocoder, or LPC.
Alias-free folding you can still modulate
- — Three oscillators, any of them sine, triangle, saw, pulse, wavetable or a struck modal resonator.
- — 27 wavetables, a continuous morph, eleven warps, and a pitch axis that band-limits every combination.
- — Eighteen filters — the textbook set plus ladder, SEM and 303 models, and the modal bank again. Four envelopes and two LFOs reach sixteen destinations, and the aftertouch is polyphonic.
