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GrainCube, a Free Reaktor Instrument for Granular Sound Manipulation

May 11, 2010 by Miguel Isaza

JazzMutant, Devine Sound, Rachmiel, Twisted Tools and ABSoundscapes announced the release of GrainCube, a new free instrument for Reaktor, specifically aimed towards sound designers looking for granular gestural sound manipulation.

GrainCube is a four part granular processing instrument with numerous randomizing functions and modulation capabilities that allow for indescribable sonic mischief. The heart of GrainCube is a 400mb sample map of exclusive sample material from Richard Devine & Josh Kay of DevineSound. GrainCube is a collaboration between DevineSound & Rick Scott (Rachmiel), with additional programming and GUI tweaks by Igor Shilov of Twisted Tools. An additional version is also available for the Jazzmutant Lemur, re-imagined by Antonio Blanca.

[Download GrainCube]
[Download LemurCube] (Lemur users Only)

Concept & sound design: Richard Devine & Josh Kay | Devinesound
Concept & programming: Rick Scott | Rachmiel
Additional programming & GUI tweaks: Igor Shilov | Twisted Tools
LemurCube control surface design & additional sound design: Antonio Blanca | ABsoundscapes

Filed Under: news Tagged With: antonio blanca, devine sound, download, free, granular, instrument, jazzmutant, josh kay, lemur, rachmiel, reaktor, richard devine, sound design, twisted tools

Comments

  1. Alec says

    May 11, 2010 at 12:01 pm

    Thanks alot for the heads up.Cant wait to get home and try this out.
    Love the blog! Especially the interviews.

    • Steven r. Brooks says

      May 15, 2018 at 8:29 pm

      It’s good with Dron-E

  2. Gary says

    May 12, 2010 at 12:48 am

    how to use this software,i mean with the unzip file extension “.ens”?

    • Hans van Hagen says

      January 5, 2017 at 2:38 am

      Drop it in a the reaktor or reaktor player

  3. martin says

    May 12, 2010 at 8:21 am

    an ‘.ens’ file is a Reaktor Ensemble. you need Reaktor to use it.

  4. Yuroun says

    May 13, 2010 at 2:25 pm

    I love this ens. Have a lot of fun with it allready. I recorded my rainstick and feeded it GrainCube. Made 2 soundscapes with it and mixed those together with Fruity Convolver. Mastered it with Maximus. Here’s the result:

    http://www.yuroun.nl/mp3/The%20grains%20grained.mp3

    If someone want’s my rainstick.map let me know and I’ll send you my map.

  5. javier says

    May 15, 2010 at 2:26 am

    thanks for this…. it is a really cool ensemble, now to try and figure it out

    Very cool blog!

  6. Tanko says

    July 2, 2011 at 1:52 am

    THX A LOT , LOVIN’ DEVINE SOUND ¡¡¡

  7. Arkady Marto aka eject project says

    December 13, 2012 at 11:12 am

    Great app!
    Thank and respect from Moscow electronica

  8. Jim Roditis says

    March 3, 2017 at 7:52 pm

    This is a great ensemble. Very complex sounds .
    Thank you!!!!!!!

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  2. Padded Cell : Granulab says:
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