Minimal Audio has announced the launch of its Lucid next-generation granular effect, with a big deal made about the fact that this syncs with your DAW project’s music scale/key and tempo.
Granular synthesis has proven to be very popular and there are many plugins as well as native DAW functionality which will manipulate your samples. Lucid’s approach adds what’s often missing — melody and harmony which fits your project.
Lucid detects the pitch of every grain and retunes it in real time. Each grain also gets its own effects which evolve, adding detail and movement.
A large collection of presets are available for instant shaping of tracks, including core granular, tuned, harmony, arpeggiation, time stretching, stutter, motion, scrub, delay, ambient, tone, sweep and transformation.
Built-in effects include chorus, compressor, delay, distortion, equaliser, filter, reverb and shifter.
Check out the Lucid deal on Plugin Boutique, including free gifts
Features
Real-time granular engine
Lucid works as an insert on any channel or source, rebuilding the incoming audio grain by grain into deeply musical sounds you couldn’t make any other way.
Grain scale-lock
Every grain’s pitch is detected and retuned in real time, so you can transpose and modulate freely, always locked to your key.
Granular timeline sync
Sync time-stretching to your grid, snap to transients, or scrub manually through a captured loop while everything stays locked to your timeline.
Preset library
Over 350 track-ready presets across 13 purpose-built packs, searchable by tag, each with two macros for instant control.
Harmonic grain delay
A multi-tap delay with scale-locked pitch shifting for always in-key shimmer effects and arpeggiated spaces.
Multi-mode grain filter
Every grain gets its own filter with independent modulation and drive for shifting tone and texture no single filter could produce.
Dynamic grain imager
Spread grains across the stereo field with unique panning patterns for a wide and controlled stereo image generated by the grains themselves.
Grain chord and arp modes
Stack grains into rich harmonies from any source, or step each grain through your scale for evolving sequences.
Timeline display
A timeline-locked waveform shows your captured input and where every grain plays, so you always see exactly what Lucid is doing.
Animator pad
One animated XY pad controls many parameters at once, for organic, evolving movement across your whole patch.
Grain blur
Blurs each grain to smooth away the digital artifacts of time-stretching and freezing, so even extreme processing stays organic and natural.
Full effects rack
Eight freely loadable studio-grade effects that extend the granular output, from mix-ready polish to deep creative sound design.
Deep modulation system
Assign macros, LFOs, curve sequencers, and envelope followers to any parameter by drag-and-drop or the modulation matrix.
Check out the Lucid deal on Plugin Boutique, including free gifts
