About crusherX-Live!
crusherX-Live!  v5.20  is a stand alone synthesizer application whose powerful real-time granular synthesizer algorithm enables you to synthesize very complex sounds and cool multichannel waves. crusherX-Live! does distill and transform sounds quite radically. Based on traditional granular synthesis, crusherX-Live! can be used as a synthesizer or as a versatile effects unit. Features: up to 10 channel ASIO/DirectX, VST(i) bridges, MIDI, Effects, Sampler, FM DCO, joystick force feedback interaction, physical modelling X/Y controller.

it is more than sound... it is more than music ... it is the crusher!

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crusherX-Live! Setup Sample

crusherX-Live! guitar setup sample

A setup example:  crusherX-Live!  v5.20  running on a ASUS Eee PC 1008HA connected to the effect loop of a VOX AC30CC1 guitar amp. The guitar is a Fender FSR 2005 STRAT  (Factory Special Run) American DLX  PLR (vintage blond).

 
Requirements to run crusherX-Live!
crusher-X comes with a DSP engine that runs on Win platforms with standard soundcards.
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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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How does it work?
On the left side of the interface you see the input sections: Samplers, Live-Inputs, Feedback and DCOs.
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