Regardless of the selected upper view, the lower half provides continuous access to the oscillator, noise, grain, filter, and output controls. Quanta is a full-featured ten-voice true stereo granular synthesizer, with up to a hundred 1000ms grains per voice, and full control over the grain state, with direct randomization and modulation of most parameters. Each of these, as well as the volume and grain playback direction controls, has an associated Random knob, used to vary that parameter for every generated grain within the dialled-in range. Forward plays the grains in the direction you would expect, while Reverse plays them backwards; Play Dir determines the perceived direction of grain playback in relation to the waveform and plays it accordingly while -Play Dir inverts this behavior; Random mode selects a mode from the other four options for each grain by chance. Granulate Quanta is a full-featured ten-voice true stereo granular synthesizer, with up to a hundred 1000ms grains per voice, and full control over the grain state, with direct randomization and modulation of most parameters.
Granulate Quanta is a true stereo granular synthesizer, you can use it for all parameters. Granular synthesis is the process of breaking up a sound into tiny grains which are then reconfigured and reorganized into a brand new sound altogether. Quanta is customizable to your taste and playing style. In a world gone mad for analog devices, acclaimed American developer Audio Damage has created a truly elegant virtual instrument designed to push the digital potential of granular synthesis to its limits, while ensuring it remains accessible for producers of all skill levels. Audio Damage showed the first executable beta version of their new large software synthesizer Quanta at the Superbooth 2018 in Berlin. This would be compatible with both 32 bit and 64 bit windows. And I would have quite liked to see a little visual image of the sample waveform too.
Can be injected directly into grain engine. Each segment can be set between 0ms and 10s in length, although the envelope graphic can be very misleading, as the time scale used by the display is non-linear - you have to mouse over a breakpoint to see the duration of the segment preceding it. This apraoch to synthesis lends itself to movement, character driven detailed sounds! You might think that smashing up a sound into a gazillion grains will result in some kind of buzzing nonsense, but there is everything here from dreamy pads, to rhythmic textures, lush strings to indescribable atmosphere. Granular synthesis engine works in stereo. Below the Shape dial is a pop-up menu with five playback directions. Used discretely, the analogue oscillator is just the thing for adding a solidifying sub tone, harmonic texture or smoothing layer to the grain stream. Taken on their own without any sample layering or granular synthesis, Quanta functions as a solid synthesizer.
Super granulator The signals from the granulator and oscillators meet at the Filter section, in which a pair of two- or four-pole multimode resonant filters are arranged in series or parallel. Quanta has mod coming out its ears. Threshing Grains The crucial engine driving Quanta is, of course, the Grains section. Feature Highlights: Granulate Quanta is a full-featured ten-voice true stereo granular synthesizer, with up to a hundred 1000ms grains per voice, and full control over the grain state, with direct randomization and modulation of most parameters. The Shape knob morphs the waveform from a sine, through a square to a saw, while Pulse Width modulates the rectangular width of the square wave and the symmetry of the other shapes.
I would suggest opening Quanta and the manual side-by-side if possible to walk through each function as it is laid out by Audio Damage. Use your Linnstrument, Roli Seaboard, Haken Continuum, or Madrona Labs Soundplane among others to directly access per-note pressure, pitch bend, and modulation. Modulate Quanta has mod coming out its ears. Jump to the Videos of Jump to the Demos of Review: Quanta by Audio Damage Quanta by Audio Damage opens a world of deep granular synthesis to anyone willing to dive in. By reconfiguring its powerful features into a highly intuitive interface with more than a few clever twists, Audio Damage succeeds in making this somewhat arcane and often overlooked synthesis technique feel fresher than ever. Next along from the oscillator and noise sources are the controls for the granular engine.
This is the world of granular synthesis, and Quanta seems to have harnessed this power and presented it in the simplest form I have seen so far. The great part is that if you have tweaked and crafted a great sound in Quanta but would like to try all the same parameters with another sample, you can! Modulate Quanta has mod coming out its ears. Quanta is customizable to your taste and playing style. If grain location is randomised in any way, the dot spreads horizontally into an oval shape to show the range over which sample data will be read. The All Stop button provides an emergency exit if you accidentally create something too loud, awful, and continuous to endure.
Their devices range from quirky a neuron-inspired percussion synth, a rotary beat-slicer, a step-sequenced multi-effects unit to indispensable a variety of elegant and nicely designed reverbs, choruses, filters and flangers. That sounds like interesting sound results! Better still, even without being audible on their own and left entirely unaccompanied by audio content, both oscillators can be fed through the granular engine to rapidly synthesize otherworldly tones and textures without any sample loaded into Quanta at all. The main control knob sets the grain envelope shape: there are 10 distinct choices, with various attack and decay curves. I own and use a lot of Audio Damage plug-ins, so Quanta had a familiar look and feel out of the box. The tool offers a mixture of granular and subtractive synthesis.
This would be compatible with both 32 bit and 64 bit windows. The operation should be as easy as a comparable subtractive synthesizer. These are expanded by a wealth of randomization options and modulation routing that should have any advanced sound designer's mind racing with possibilities. Quanta is a full-featured ten-voice true stereo granular synthesizer, with up to a hundred 1000ms grains per voice, and full control over the grain state, with direct randomization and modulation of most parameters. This helps you further craft exactly the sound you want. Keeping thing even simpler than the granulator in terms of controls, the analogue oscillator could hardly be easier to program. In addition, the oscillator and noise sources can be passed directly into the filter, bypassing the granular process altogether.
Audio Damage are a two-person company who have been building plug-ins since 2002. Better still are those presets, programmed by Chris Carter, Joseph Fraioli, Marcus Fisher and MusicTech interviewee and sound designer extraordinaire Richard Devine. Breakpoints and looping in the envelope generators. Quanta is a sample-based synthesizer that plants its flag in granular synthesis. Granulate Quanta is a full-featured ten-voice true stereo granular synthesizer, with up to a hundred 1000ms grains per voice, and full control over the grain state, with direct randomization and modulation of most parameters. This audio is broken down into grains which you then simply manipulate in various ways to synthesise. Can be injected directly into grain engine.
Control Quanta is customizable to your taste and playing style. An unlimited number of breakpoints is supported, the segments can be curved, and an arbitrary portion of the envelope between two breakpoints can be looped in a single or bidirectional manner. Some of the sounds in the rhythmic category are more obviously rhythmic than others — when your basic sound is so highly textured and dynamic, it can be tricky to impose an additional sonic attribute which is clearly locked to the beat. Any goodwill attached to those brands rest with the brand owner. On the extreme end, Ramp Down creates plucky, almost percussive rain drops of sound, while Ramp Up delivers reverse sweeps full of atmospheric tension. These grains are kind of like single cycle wavetables that you might be used to in other synths like Serum, Synth Master and Avenger. In just a few days, Quanta quickly became a workhorse for all manner of intricate textures that I would have had difficulty even dreaming up without it.