Work with Granular Pads
The final pad mode is granular mode. Granular is similar to sample mode, but with the
additional ability to use multiple grains when playing back your sample. You can use
granular to facilitate loop cross fading and to generate new sounds from your samples. In
this mode, the sample is played back in small portions about 10 to 200ms in length, called
grains. You can control the size, count, spread and playback speed of the grains.
Pad Parameters Specific to Granular Mode
Granular pads support the same parameters as sample pads, except for Loop Fade. They
also use the following additional parameters:
Parameter Description
Range of Values
Mod
Target?
Grain Size
The size of the small segments of the WAV file that
will be played, measured in number of samples.
1024
to
16384
, which is
about 10ms to about
200ms
No
Grain Count
How many different grains are layered together
during playback.
2
to
8
. Keep in mind that
more grains require
more processor power.
No
Spread
The width of the range from which the grains are
randomly chosen for playback. The range is centered
around the current playback position in the WAV file.
0 to 75,000
No
Speed
How quickly the playback of the grains advances
through the source WAV file. At 100% it will sound
most like the original file. At 50% it will be half speed.
At 200%, it will progress through the WAV file at
twice the original rate.
0
to
200
%
Yes
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