gRainbow Free Pitch-Detecting Granular Synthesizer

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https://bboettcher3.github.io/grainbow

Brady Boettcher releases gRainbow, a free pitch-detecting granular synthesizer plugin for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

gRainbow uses longer, pitch-diverse audio clips. It automatically produces harmonics matched for MIDI input and avoids too much time-stretching by generating harmonics that are already near their target pitch.

It works like this: when an audio file is loaded into gRainbow, a pitch detection analysis is run to segment the clip into discrete pitches over time, and each one is assigned a color (hence the rainbow visual nature of the GUI).

the synth finds up to 6 pitch-matched position candidates for each note, guaranteeing harmonically agreeable grains.

Candidates are a collection of viable positions in the audio clip where the pitch is harmonic with a particular note.

Finally, the user can customize each note and its generators