DataMind have updated Refractalizer, available $149.00. The update is FREE to existing users.
What’s new in version 1.2:
- Four new FX modules: Filter, Chorus, Flanger and Phaser. A complete onboard effects section for sculpting, smearing and animating your grains, with a new LPNotch filter mode for resonant motion that you can’t get anywhere else.
- A new on-screen keyboard with pitch bend. Play and audition Refractalizer directly inside the plugin window, with configurable upper and lower Pitch Bend bounds for fast performance setups.
- Modulatable switches with Unipolar and Bipolar modes. Switches, including Reverse, are now fully modulatable, so you can automate, randomise and morph them with LFOs and macros. Combined with the new uni/bipolar modulation modes, this unlocks a huge new layer of sound design depth.
- New presets and factory content. A fresh wave of presets built around everything 1.2 can do, from textural beds and evolving pads to glitchy rhythmic chops.
- Plus plenty more under the hood: a new Grain Length/Rate ms/hz/sync toggle, a max grain count parameter, an expanded Record Length range, a gain-based mix control, and a long list of UI polish and fixes.
Refractalizer is a novel synthesizer designed to enhance the musicality of granular synthesis, allowing users to manipulate time, transform samples, and smoothly transition between rhythmic chopping, granular soundscapes, and traditional synth sounds.
Its core functionality lies in its ability to seamlessly blend rhythms, tones, and textures by interpolating between milliseconds, offering extreme time-stretching with subatomic resolution and sample-accurate precision.
Unlike conventional granulators, Refractalizer’s grain rate is MIDI-controllable, enabling users to play grains as a synthesizer and transform audio slices into pads, drones, or rhythmic phrases through buffer playback manipulation.
The multi-buffer system supports an unlimited number of samples, facilitating smooth crossfades between drum hits, loop variations, or bass layers, and can also be used tonally to morph between stacked synth voices or vocal snippets.
Refractalizer unifies rhythmic divisions and arbitrary millisecond timing by allowing interpolation between BPM-locked divisions and precise Hz values, and its polyphonic grain-rate synthesis turns granular textures into playable instruments like leads, basses, and chords.
Watch the walkthrough video HERE.
Refractalizer is available to PC and Mac users (VST and AU).
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