Ian Johnston has announed the availability of Celestine Granular FX pre-order, available for $5.99, increasing to $9.99 after the promotion. Celesrine is due to land May 28th.
No samples required. Celestine listens as you play and transforms your sound into shimmering clouds orbiting textures, and evolving ambient beds.
Feed it vocals, guitar, synths, piano, drums, field recordings, or full mixes, and Celestine transforms the incoming sound into shimmering clouds, drifting harmonics, orbitiną textures, rhythmic fraqments, and
evolving ambient beds No samples to load. Celestine listens continuously, through a rolling live buffer. Whatever you play becomes the source material. Incoming audio is broken into swarms of micro-grains that can be pitched, reversed, widened, scattered, synchronized, softened. distorted. and animated in real time insert it on a track, blend dry and wet, send multiple sounds into it, or perform it like an instrument. From delicate halos to chaotic scatter. Celestine is built to feel organic, musical, and expressive,
Eight granular engines:
- Grain: classic granular textures
- Mosaic: pitch-shifted harmonic clusters
- Glide: bending, sliding grains
- Reverie: dreamy reverse washes
- Bloom: ghost-echo reflections
- Tide: amplitude wave undulations
- Stars: rhythmic anchor patterns
- Orbit: circular spatial movement
Shape time, pitch, density, motion, tone, and space Scrub through the live buffer by hand, or lock grair triggering to the host tempo for evolving patterns ana rhythmic clouds.
Built-in effects:
- Wavefolding distortion for rich harmonic color
- Bitcrush for subtle grit or digital destruction
- Lush reverb for spacious depth
- Magic multi-FX with seven tone-shaping algorithms
- Dry/wet blending for subtle enhancement or ful transformation
Celestine turns melodies into alowing pads, vocals into spectral choirs, guitars into frozen halos, drums into glittering glitches, and simple loops into evolving celestial motion. Ideal for ambient, cinematic, IDM and sound design.
Features include:
- Real-time live-buffer granular processing 8 distinct granular engines
- Up to 30 simultaneous grain voices
- Tempo-synced, bar-locked grain triggering Pitch, reverse, width, scatter, motion, and timing controls
- Wavefold, bitcrush, reverb, and Magic multi-FX Smooth, click-free DSP
Watch the overview video HERE.
Celestine is an AUv3 audio effect and requires ar AUv3-compatible host app.
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