Granular Poetry

Granular Poetry on YouTube

In MetaModule v2.0, you can now load audio directly from an SD card, making it easy to incorporate your own samples into patches.
This patch uses a VoxGlitch Grain Engine to scramble a WAV file. The audio used in the patch is a recording of the poem All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan. An EQ and reverb are applied to make the final result a little less harsh. Granular synthesis lets you grab tiny snippets of audio and stretch or warp the sound. It’s somewhat like a delay, pitch shifter, and time compression/expansion device all in one. The size and number of grains greatly influence the resulting sound palette. This particular granular synthesis module also includes a “jitter” feature, which introduces unpredictability and glitchy textures.

External Audio Path:

  • Main audio outputs are on channels 1 and 2.

Internal Audio Path:

  • The VoxGlitch Grain Engine runs into an EQ filter and then a Valley Plateau plate reverb.

Internal CV Path:

  • An LFO controls the playback head position in the WAV file.

MetaModule Knob Mappings:
A - Playback speed
B - Granular rate
C - Grain size
D - Number of grains
E - Pitch
F - Jitter
U - Reverb size
V - Reverb decay
W - Reverb diffusion
X - Reverb dry/wet
Y - N/A
Z - N/A


Granular Poetry.yml (6.9 KB)
Granular Poetry.vcv (2.4 KB)

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Yes this works good. Quick use of the grain module :slight_smile:

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