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GRAIN SAMPLE MANIPULATOR215
Grain Oscillator
The Grain Oscillator plays back a mix of two very short grains of the original sample. The grain playback rate corre-
sponds to the oscillator pitch. This means the original pitch (Root Key/Formant) of the sample doesn’t affect the
pitch of the sound, but the timbre.
•Pan Spread
Here you set how much you want the grains to be panned in the stereo panorama. 0% means the signal will be un-
affected and 100% means every other grain will be panned hard left and hard right. Great for nice stereo effects
and for the impression of an added stereo sub-oscillator, depending on the settings. Note that the pitch of the
panned signal becomes 1 octave lower than the original signal due to the fact that every other grain is panned.
Pitch Jitter
Changes the pitch of every grain. The pitch modulation character is “smooth random”.
•Grain Length
Sets the lengths of the grains and also the crossfade amount. At 0% you get the shortest grains and almost no
crossfade at all. This means the sound could be a little gritty at this setting. At 100% you get longer grains, that
also overlaps each other with a smooth crossfade.
•Grain Spacing
Sets the spacing in the original sample between the two played back grains. High Spacing values render more
even sound character throughout the played notes - almost like a wavetable synth - since a lot of audio data in the
original sample is skipped. Less spacing normally creates more varying sound character between each played
note.
•Formant
Sets the formant’s initial frequency. Turn this knob to change the tone color of the sound. At high Grain Spacing
values (see above) the effect of changing the Formant could be similar to the classic “oscillator sync” sound. To
have the Formant fully track the keyboard, make sure the Formant KBD parameter (see below) is set to 100%.
•Formant Tune
Here you can fine-tune the formant curve.
•Formant Kbd
Here you set how much you want the formant to track the keyboard. 0% means no keyboard tracking and 100%
means full 1:1 keyboard tracking.