Bleass Granulizer iOS App / Desktop Plugin Walkthrough / Demo / Review
Bleass Granulizer is a really enjoyable and intuitive universal (iPad/iPhone) granular FX app for iOS, and this is a detailed walkthrough teaching you all you need to know about the app. It has an extremely cool multi-buss feature which allows you to mix together at random short snippets of audio from up to 4 different audio sources, and in this video tutorial I show how to set this up. Scale options allow for very musical granulation. With this you can basically pulverize something into granular mayhem, or come up with lovely harmonic arp- and chord-like effects. As always with Bleass apps, it has some great presets - which I demo on drums as well as melodic content - and a fantastically thought-through interface.
00:00 intro and giveaway details
01:12 1st audio example - melodic lead. Main features walkthrough
11:08 2nd audio example & how to set up multi busses
15:30 a neat trick with Granulizer and several Gauss instances
17:01 3rd audio example: on drums, preset walkthrough on drums
21:28 4th audio example and preset walkthrough on melodic content
FROM THE APP STORE:
BLEASS Granulizer generates short samples (‘grains’) from input signal and plays them with certain properties such as :
Volume
Pan
Size ( = grain’s duration)
Offset ( = the amount of time between record and play)
Backward/Forward
Shape ( = grain’s envelope)
Warmth ( = strength of the distortion applied to the grain)
Tune ( = grains can be pitched up or down)
Grains properties are set randomly from a range set by the user using controls with the dice icons.
BLEASS Granulizer takes up to 4 sources from different busses as inputs. When multiple busses are on, each grain is randomly extracted from one of the available sources.
A Density control sets the frequency of grains creation.
Density, grain size and the offset range can be free or synchronized with the host’s tempo and transport status.
INPUT stage:
Low-pass and high-pass input filters
Busses activation and gain control
GRANULIZER stage:
Grains 3D visualizer. Height represents grain’s warmth, width represents grain’s pan and depth represents time. Touching the visualizer sets pan and density.
Volume in percent of the input level
Volume random range in percent
Pan in percent
Pan random range in percent
Size in milliseconds (FREE) or in fraction of a bar (BEAT)
Size random range in milliseconds (FREE) or in percent of the size (BEAT)
Sync selector to choose between FREE and BEAT modes
Density in percent (FREE) or in fraction of a bar (BEAT)
Offset random range in milliseconds (FREE) or in fraction of a bar (BEAT)
Backward/Forward chance in percent. If set to -100% all grains are played backward, if set to 0% half the grains are played backward.
Shape sets grain’s envelope from a cosine shape to a square shape
Shape random range in percent
Warmth sets the amount of distortion applied to grains
Warmth random range in percent
Tune mode choice between Fine, Chromatic, Major, Minor, 5th, Major 7th, Minor 7th and Octave
Tune random range.
If Tune mode is Fine and tune random range is 100%, a grain is pitched by a random value between -0.5 semitone and 0.5 semitone.
For other modes, pitch value can take the following values:
Chromatic: 0, +/-1st, +/-2st, +/-3st, +/-4st, +/-5st, +/-6st, +/-7st, +/-8st, +/-9st, +/-10st, +/-11st, +/-12st
Major: 0, 4st, -5st, 7st, -8st, 12st, -12st, 16st, -17st, 19st, -20st, 24st, -24st
Minor: 0, 3st, -5st, 7st, -9st, 12st, -12st, 15st, -17st, 19st, -21st, 24st, -24st
5th: 0, -5st, 7st, -12st, 12st, -17st, 19st, -24st, 24st
Major 7th: 0, -1st, 11st, -12st, 12st, -13st, 23st, -24st, 24st
Minor 7th: 0, -2st, 10st, -12st, 12st, -14st, 22st, -24st, 24st
Octave: 0, 12st, -12st, 24st, -24st
OUTPUT stage:
Output gain
Dry/Wet control