Grain Delay

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Published in SOS January 2012

Technique : Ableton Live Notes


Len Sasso
1: A Grain Delay embedded in an Audio Effects Rack with its controls mapped to the rack’s Macro knobs. I’ve colour coded the controls by function: orange for grain settings, green for pitch, blue for delay and yellow for output. Spray (top-left) is actually a delay setting, but its effect is to add jitter to the grain spacing, so I think of it as a grain setting. The numerical box next to Grain Delay’s Sync/Time button has different functions and separate mapping assignments in Sync and Time modes, and I’ve dedicated a knob to each.
1: A Grain Delay embedded in an Audio Effects Rack with its controls mapped to the rack’s Macro knobs. I’ve colour coded the controls by function: orange for grain settings, green for pitch, blue for delay and yellow for output. Spray (top-left) is actually a delay setting, but its effect is to add jitter to the grain spacing, so I think of it as a grain setting. The numerical box next to Grain Delay’s Sync/Time button has different functions and separate mapping assignments in Sync and Time modes, and I’ve dedicated a knob to each.
If you’ve experimented with Live’s Grain Delay Audio Effects plug-in or used other granular synths and effects, you may be left with the impression that granular processing is chaotic, hard to control and mainly useful for creating sound effects. However, with a little care in choosing your settings, you can use Grain Delay to achieve subtle and very musical results that are beyond the reach of other types of effect — and that’s what we’ll be looking at in this month’s article.
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Published in SOS January 2012

 

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