Tutorial & Sound Demo

Granulator has always been an amazing sampler. With version III, we now get a streamlined interface along with powerful new engines like the Cloud Engine.

In our Granulator III workshop, we explored how to create granular chord progressions from a single note and use automation techniques—just like in this video.

We can transform Granulator III into a slicing-style granular sampler by disabling key tracking for transposition and enabling it for position.

The Instrument Rack

Macros

Pitch Spread – Adding a 2nd layer with pitch variation

Grain Var – Adding time variation to granular looping up to 2s

Scan – Jumping granular position forward by up to 4x

Dynamic Shape – Volume envelope for the grains

Filter Cutoff – Double filter Lowpass/Notch

Filter Reso – Filter Resonance

Phasing – Manual control over Ableton’s Phaser with an external LFO to create old school phasing effect.

Space – a custom Hybrid Reverb Preset

Requirements

– Latest version of Ableton Suite

– Granulator III

INSTALLATION

1.  After unzipping, you might encounter a bug that removes the file extension. If that happens, simply rename the file to end with .adg

2. Click on the Save button at the top right corner of the device to save to your User Library

DOWNLOAD

Granular Slicing

This rack is part of Compostion Power Tools