This app lets you control granular sound synthesis modules via drawing trajectories on its GUI.

Sound Grain is written with Python and uses Csound as its audio engine. Csound 5 must be installed on the system to allow Sound Grain to run.

Changes in v4.1.1

• This version fixes an important memory leak and a few minor bugs.
• Fixed crash when playing with number of channels.
• Fixed unicode support, allowing non-ascii characters.
• Fixed trajectories and FxBalls position when resizing the application frame.
• Added support for ASIO driver on Windows.
• Added sample floating-point precision in the Audio Drivers menu.
• Added new FxBalls : Chorus, Frequency Shift, Detuned Resonator.
• Added the possibility to mix multiple sounds (with crossfade) into the drawing area.

Changes in v4.0

• Midi support : User can add and remove trajectories with a midi keyboard
• Fx balls : User can put balls on the drawing surface to add temporary effects on sound produced by the granular process
• Grain envelope : User can modify the grain envelope with a graph window
• Amplitude control on each trajectory
• Panning can be assigned to the Y axis