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If you're into granular synthesis, granular textures and soundscapes, you really should check out this thing. I've only had it for a day or two and the learning curve is pretty steep (for a guitarist at least) but I've been getting some awesome sounds out of it already.

It reminds me vaguely of the granular part of alchemy (which I tried but don't own), but more a bit more intuitive, because it's not a side show element of a bigger synth. The funnest part is an x/y field with two moving parameter dots that you can define certain parameters of their movement (start position, drift and depth) and assign parameters to the resulting semi random paths via a modulation matrix.

My only gripes are no 64bit so far. [edit] I thought I wasn't able to make it show up in renoise but I was being an idiot and looking for instruments in the DSP tab. It works fine in both renoise and live.

Just 2 useful pieces of info to add...

1. A link: http://www.m-rgt.com/Ambitron.html

2. Ambitron is a Windows only VST

Looks really interesting. Been looking for some sort of granular synth of some sort that's pretty easy to use. Never really got into granular synthesis at all, but this might ease me into it. The interface looks relativly intuitive.

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polyslax wrote:Just 2 useful pieces of info to add...

1. A link: http://www.m-rgt.com/Ambitron.html

2. Ambitron is a Windows only VST

Thanks. I felt if I included a link and "and it's only $33!" people would think I'm afiliated. This is really the most excited I've been about a vst in ages. Check out some of the user examples on soundcloud. So awesome.