crusherX-Mac! is the full mac port of the crusherX-Studio! granular synthesis effect system. The new innovative tuning feature allows creating grain clouds that are tuned. Beside the well tempered standard scale the package contains thousands of historical, experimental, microtonal and exotic non western intonation scales that can be used to manipulate the pitch of the grains. Play the cloud with your midi keyboard!

crusher-X supports Multi CPU grain generation. A unique Vapor Overdrive section is available. It allows strange grain overdrive effects that are ideally used together with guitar input sounds. The overdrive curve can be edited via a new feature rich spline editor. The whole granular engine supports multichannel input processing so that the stereo information of an input signal is not destroyed. All interface elements can be assigned to controllers thru an easy to use midi or vst parameter learning function. Additional velocity, channel pressure and key aftertouch controllers can be assigned as a source for the cloud modulation. The crusher audio engine supports great sound quality and high dynamic range. The context sensitive help systems allows direct link to the various help topics. crusherX-Mac! is VST 2.4 and AU compatible and ready to use under Mac OS for Apple Computers with Intel CPU. Beside mono and stereo full surround sound on 5.1, 7.1, and up to 10 channel setups are supported.

What is new?

• Add virtual keyboard, keyboard panel and Midi Modes to support tuned granular effects
• Add Scala and Tuning File support
• Add Key indicator on grain view
• Add range buttons to speed faders
• Add CPU overload protection and CPU load display in grain view
• Add Keytune storing on non gated Midi-Modes
• Add Volume control possibility on peak meters including output volume control of all surround outputs
• Replace volume group buttons with stereo link buttons
• Add link of surround output control to stereo output
• Add DCO volume fader
• Rewire mixer to a better routing layout
• Rework AU-Plugins to support any kind of channel assignment (e.g. surround 5.1, 7.1)
• Remove Midi-Note-Off bug in parameter control
• Remove Parameter-Assignments from Undo Chain
• Highlight features in nag window (only Demo version)
• Fix Cloud Depth edit field bug
• Fix Key Aftertouch modulation bug
• Fix Morph Pause bug
• Fix Open File Dialog crash bug

 

Additional web resources and free DEMO

Find more info and a free Demo download here: http://mac.crusher-x.com