Sound Grain is a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis modules.

Requirements

Minimum versions (for running SoundGrain from sources):

Python : 2.6.x

WxPython : 2.8.x

pyo : 0.6.0

News

SoundGrain version 4.1.0 - February 2012

This version fixes several bugs and adds some important features :

• 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.

SoundGrain version 4.0.1 - February 2011

This a small bug fix release for OSX 10.6.6.

• The psyco library is no more used.

SoundGrain version 4 - February 2011

In version 4.0 is the return of Windows support with a standalone combining the interface and the audio engine.

This version fixes all known bugs and adds some important features :

• 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

SoundGrain version 3

-------- CSOUND REPLACED BY PYO --------

Revision 180 is a breaking compatilibity turn around. It's the starting point of version 3.0 and the end of MS Windows support. Csound have been replaced by pyo as the audio engine. pyo offers more flexibility for granulation process and the ability to build an App with all dependencies embeded. I hope you will enjoy!

SoundGrain version 1 and 2

Sound Grain v1.0 and v2.0 are written with Python and use Csound as their audio engine. Csound 5 must be installed on the system to allow Sound Grain to run.

Csound's download page - http://csound.sourceforge.net/#Downloads

Contact

For questions and comments please mail belangeo(at)gmail.com

Donation

This project is developed by Olivier Bélanger on his free time to provide a simple and expressive tool for sound exploration. If you feel this project is useful to you and want to support it and it's future development please consider donating money. I only ask for a small donation, but of course I appreciate any amount.