PolyFreq have released Phonon, available at the intro price of
Phonon is a precision granular laboratory that transforms any sound source into a spectrum of new sonic possibilities, ranging from vaporized textures and dark drones to sharp, machine-funk beats, offering sub-sample precision and audio-rate modulation.
What Phonon does:
- Pitch shifting
- Time stretching
- Sample mangling
- Sound design
- Classic textural, granular clouds
- Synchronous, tuned granular tone creation
- Create a synth from any sample
- Rhythmic grain generation, synced to host
- Beat retiming and timbre distortion
Its innovative granular engine features eight voices and sub-sample precision, enabling surgical time-stretching, sample mangling, and the creation of playable, expressive synthesizers from any sample, with advanced controls for grain shape, density, and rate.
Phonon boasts a highly flexible, drag-and-drop modulation matrix with audio/grain-rate modulation capabilities, supporting nine modulator types including LFOs, envelopes, and metadata, with 12 modulator slots per patch for extensive sound shaping.
The tool includes a character-driven effects chain with saturating drive, resonant filtering, and a utility reverb, alongside a limiter or saturator for the final output stage, and comprehensive metering for true peak and LUFS levels.
Designed for ease of use, Phonon offers a drag-and-drop workflow, resizable interface, sample embedding for presets and 8-way snapshots.
Features include:
- 8 voices of polyphony
- Tune pitch automatically or manually to the sample’s root note
- Up to 256 grains per voice
- High quality grain playback
- Precise, sub-sample grain scheduling
- Many randomisation options for asynchronous control (for versatile, classic, randomised granular textures)
- Unprecedented timbral control, with separate control of grain density and grain rate
- 4 keyboard follow modes
- Grain shape control between gentle curves and sharp, rectangular window for “graintable” synthesis
- Stereo pan and randomisation – or modulation – for versatile perceptual widening control
- Cross-fade between granular and straight sample playback for further fun
- Legato mode for mono with ability to slur notes without retriggering the envelope
- Extra creativity controls: snappy onsets, control grain length at source or playback (linking or unlinking grain pitch and length), and auto-tune
Watch the preview video HERE.
Phonon is available to PC and Mac users (VST3 and standalone).
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