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crusher-X

crusher X 9.5 poster
 
Its powerful live, polyphonic, multichannel granular synthesis algorithm creates very complex sounds, drones and outstanding surround effects. Since 1999, the crusher-X trademark has been "the" granular effect standard. crusher-X is used by famous sound-designers, composers, musicians and film-makers all over the world. It comes with GCOs, an Autotune and Pitch tracking system, up to 10-channel surround outputs, up to 199 individual grain streams, unique 3D grain visualization, over 4300 LFOs, over 410 real-time parameters and more than 190 presets. Read more about the crusher-X key features here.
 
macOS
Download
crusher-X-DEMO.dmg
  windows
Download
crusher-X-DEMO.zip

crusher-X 10 released!

This is the "Glitcher-X" upgrade of crusher-X ! Consider this major version as a milestone in granular synthesis as it introduces an unique grain generation mode called Glitcher!

 

 

How to get crusher-X 10?

Upgrade / crossgrade: 99,- € (incl. VAT - For outside EU residents VAT will be removed from card)

Full version: 289,- € (incl. VAT - For outside EU residents VAT will be removed from card)
 
What's new in crusher-X 10?

Why crusher-X ?

With its mind-blowing controls and highly intuitive workflow, crusher-X truly is a hidden gem in the world of audio production ... crusher-X is perfect for a range of purposes, including film-making, composing, sound-designing for video games or other media, and much more. On top of that, this incredible plugin would be perfect for a range of music production styles, including ambient and downtempo genres.

Producer Sphere 2022
I’m loving Crusher-X. It’s absolutely insane and I am very happy to have come across it here at KVR as it’s not spoken of much elsewhere. I have lots of great granular tools (Portal, Silo, Fragments, GranularMB, Dust, WaveWarper2, Novum, and a few Eurorack modules; Beads and Supercell) but this has got to be the deepest and craziest of them all. As a granular enthusiast, I’m totally blown away.

PsychicVST at KVR
As a niche sound designer, I'm often asked to create sounds for cinematic portrayals which are inaudible, unhearable, or never-before-heard. The application of known sound classes for these moments can be immediately underwhelming whereas sounds without established realworld meaning can do the job of transporting the audience into the scene. I can't think of a better computer-based tool to do this than crusher-X.

Karl Mohr - IMAX sound designer - builder of sounds for the Star Nursery in Hubble 3D
It is a very advanced granular processor with very deep features. Where many plugins only scratch the surface, crusher-X goes clearly into the matter. It’s a paradise for granular lovers [...] the “Rolls Royce” among the granular Synthesizer plugins.

SYNTH ANATOMY
Just wanted to say that this is ‪possibly the most inspiring piece of software I’ve purchased in a very long time.

Jacob Sologub
Ihr macht den BESTEN GRANULAR SOFTWARE SYNTH auf dem Markt!

Mattia Bonafini
I purchased crusher-X about a year ago because I was looking for the perfect granular synthesizer. Well, crusher-X is even greater than perfect, it is a deep well of experimental possibilities. What I am working on right now is granulating my voice for spoken word performance, in an effort to capture a kind of “viral” breakdown, deconstructing & pulverizing language as we see life around us crumbling under the weight of Covid-19. I feel that Crusher-X is a great medium for the cathartic release of angst in this crazy time we’re in.

Randall Packer - multimedia artist
crusher-X is spectacularly great. I’m finding new ways to use it every day. I’m especially finding the link with my ROLI and LinnStrument extremely creative.

Simon Franglen - Avatar, Titanic, Skyfall, Spectre
crusher-X is a mind-blowing tool! I love this new tool in my DAW ... lot FX I’m using are very predictable ... but in case of crusher-X I was blown away! I start running my sound designs and recordings thru crusher-X and right the way I hear a completely new sound design! I just spend an hour playing just with one of my 5.1 recordings and I was completely blown away what was happen to the sound ... so cool and beyond of my imagination! The 5.1 FX is what I was looking for a very long time. Thank you for creating this fantastic tool!

Robert Dudzic - sound designer
I just want to say THANK YOU for all the imagination and inspiration you put out there in the way of this amazing instrument! You keep coming up with more ways for us to reach and see sound.... I studied at IRCAM... I worked with Johnathan Harvey and have been mesmerized by spectral composition for years. Xenakis and his theories are also huge influences on my perspective of composition. Your product is right up there with the cannon of great theories in action. Thank you and please keep up the amazing work!

Chris Portwood
crusher-X takes sound into completely uncharted sonic territory. Any sound designer would be a total loss in their industry if they don't get this application to experiment with and use

Michael
... it’s a sound designers wet dream. Combining it with an MPE controller is going to take a lot of the legwork out of designing sounds. Instead, they just seem to flow from experimenting with capturing different parameters

Robin, Gearnews
In its current incarnation, it truly is the Rolls-Royce (or Jaguar) of granulation programs

Warren Burt, SoundBytes
I felt like I've been there and already created what I was currently working on. As soon as I applied a preset from Crusher-X to one of my tracks, it gave my song a new breath of life. Crusher-X changed the direction of the song and gave me new creative ideas, all through a preset

Blayne Stone, Music Marketing
crusher-X is now unreal! What a plugin it is now! Works absolutely flawlessly with Logic as well since the last update (8.61) - its so smooth, detailed and the amount you can do before it crunches up the CPU is mind bowing, honestly. Im controlling it with ROLI and Wave ring and I feel like I'm in the future. No words - one of the best plugins ever made. Thank you!!!

Joe
Thank you! Thank you! I will buy it as soon as I return to the studio! I LOVE this program - it's great for sound design, and doesn't require a PhD to operate. First program I've been excited about in YEARS

Stew
If I didn't thank you already, thanks sooooo much. I highly value your Crusher, and never, never want to be without it; it's that cool a tool. I don't know what other audio moshing products you might consider to develop, or have already, but I look forward to any ingenious devices you might have created

Mike
Vielen Dank für die schnelle und unkomplizierte email obige Programme betreffend. Hatte diese vor langen Jahren installiert, sehe aber erst jetzt mit dem neuen und schnellen PC, was damit alles möglich ist. Ich bin begeistert!!!!!

Klaus
After getting a taste for granular synthesis with [...] Granulator, I was looking around for a more comprehensive plug-in and found a video. Soon I watched many more videos about your VST, and after trying demos of many other granulators it was clear yours was the best!

Robert
 

Robert Dudzic

 

Granular synthesis

join a world beyond music

For this purpose the qualification „beautiful“ or „ugly“ makes no sense for sound, nor for the music that derives from it; the quantity of intelligence carried by the sounds must be the true criterion of the validity of a particular music.
Iannis Xenakis in "Formalized music: Thought and mathematics in composition.", 1963-1992

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

When experimenting with those (length of grains), I have discovered a certain confusion as to what effect one can expect when setting parameters to certain values. Not only it seemed that length and density each had an impact of its own on the character of the granulated sound, but it also appeared that their relational value was highly important.
Leon Zadorin "Composing with Granular Synthesis"

A "window function" blends in and out the grains at the beginnings and endings of their life cycles. This function determines the character of the continuum and thus the different perceptions. Xenakis recommended the Gaussian window because of its theoretical considerations.

graingeneration
 

All sound is an integration of grains, of elementary sonic particles, of sonic quanta. Each of these elementary grains has a threefold nature: duration, frequency, and intensity. All sound, even all continuous sonic variation, is conceived as an assemblage of a large number of elementary adequately disposed in time. (...) Hecatombs of pure sounds are necessary for the creation of a complex sound.
Iannis Xenakis in "Formalized music: Thought and mathematics in composition.", 1963-1992

Instead of the “classic” file-based approach, the crusher-X algorithm provides a floating grain buffer which allows real-time input and output. In this floating buffer, the grains are created by several generators routed to several outputs (surround modes) or combined to become single outputs (mono and stereo modes). You are able to apply many unusual modulations to the grains such as pitch, filter, pan, reverse, X-Crush, waveshape as you like - all modulated by independent modulation sources and modulation phases, either synchronized or not synchronized to the host. The X-Crush parameter is unique in the world of granular synthesis: It applies a ring modulation between the overlapping areas of the grains that follow each other.  A feedback loop from the output towards the input is capable of generating extremely complex and non-linear sounds. 

A complex sound may be imagined as a multi-colored firework in which each point of light appears and instantaneously disappears against a black sky. But in this firework there would be such a quantity of points of light organized in such a way that their rapid and teeming succession would create forms and spirals, slowly unfolding, or conversely, brief explosions setting the whole sky aflame. A line of light would be created by a sufficiently large multitude of points appearing and disappearing instantaneously.
Iannis Xenakis in "Formalized music: Thought and mathematics in composition.", 1963-1992

Now its up to you! Try the free demo and dive in...

macOS
Download
crusher-X-DEMO.dmg
  windows
Download
crusher-X-DEMO.zip

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