crusher-X

Granular synthesis revolutionized Sound Design, Electronic and Experimental Music. crusher-X does advanced granular synthesis on your live input in real-time!
crusher-X granular synthesizer and effect plug-in for Windows (VST 2.4 32bit and 64bit) and macOS (AU, VST 64bit)
Its powerful algorithm creates very complex sounds, drones and outstanding surround effects. The crusher-X trademark is known since 1999 as "the" granular effect standard. crusher-X is used by famous sound-designers, composers, musicians and film-makers all over the world. The professional, open-minded and curious "crusher-X community" creates outstanding, unique, multi dimensional sonic pieces.
crusher-X features:
- Real-time live granular synthesis engine that creates grains from live input signals
- Real-time modulation of all Grain parameters: Delay, Length, Birth, Speed, Sweep, Overdrive, Filter, X-Crush, Diffuse, Volume and Pan
- MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) support
- Autotune and Pitch tracking system
- 10 channel surround outputs (e.g. 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.2, 9.1)
- Microtonal tuning. Comes with hundreds of different tuning scales and MIDI keyboard control
- Up to 199 individual grain streams that are processed multi-threaded (Multi-Core CPU support)
- Physical modeling faders and an unique physical modeling X/Y controller.
- 3D grain visualization
- Around 150 preset patches
- Around 270 free assignable real-time plug-in parameters, real-time MIDI control
- Morph system for parameters and patches
- Unlimited undo/redo and randomize functionalities
- Parameter phase and frequency spread modulations (spreading modulations over several grain stream generators)
- Grain quantization to host
- Grain lengths up to 60 seconds
- Shadow programs
- Meta parameter modifications with 13 adore parameters
- Several granulation live buffer and freeze modes: Switch continious from live processing to file processing
- Offline rendering
- Automatic triggered grain buffer filling modes
- Free editable multi-channel Compressor/Expander/Limiter stabilizes feedback and output level behavior
- Smart latency compensation system
Feel free to try the demo!
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