What's new?
With crusherX-Mac! 4 you will explore new static sound dimensions: Stop the live grain buffer and load your favorite audio file into the vapor buffer. Let the grains dance on your file and trust your ears! Play this cloud with your midi keyboard. Run the live vapor buffer mode and save the content of the current buffer to disk at any time. Starting and stopping the live vapor mode will not create transitions because a smooth small fading is automatically calculated. You can now use over 140 predefined and assigned plug-In parameters to control the plug from your host. With the new sizable and separated Cloud 3D window you can view the grains in detail. crusher-Mac! 4 supports Mac OS X.
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Requirements to run crusherX-Mac!

crusherX-Mac! is a pure AU (Audio Unit) and VST plugin effect (VST version 2.4) with 2 inputs and 2/10 outputs (stereo version 2 outputs, surround version 10 outputs) and about 120 presets. It runs on Apple Mac Computers with Intel CPU, 1 GB, 2 GHz CPU and Mac OS X:

Requires Mac OS X v10.4 or higher.

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crusher-X Algorithm

The crusher-X algorithm is based on the traditional granular synthesis algorithm (Xenakis, Roads, Wilkins) invented in the early 1950s. In granular synthesis, short (e.g. 50 milliseconds) sound fragments, "the grains," come from a fixed file buffer. The starting time, length and silence between the grains can be modulated. More than one grain at a time is possible, so you can create complex sound "clouds" from any sound signal. 

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