Feature Summary

From surgical time-stretching to total sample destruction, turn any sound into a playable, expressive synth

Granular Engine: Eight voices and sub-sample precision bridge the gap between classic textures and sharp “graintable” synthesis

Effects: Shape your sound with a character-driven signal chain, from saturating drive to resonant filtering and a utility reverb for glue or depth

Modulation: Drag-and-drop, flexible, audio-rate modulation matrix with unique sources like metadata and noise flavours

Presets: Easily capture, export, evolve and share your sonic creations with sample embedding and eight-way snapshots.

Phonon provides a drag and drop workflow in a resizable interface, for ease of use as a standalone instrument or plugin-based production in the DAW of your choice.

What can you do with Phonon?

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

Features in Detail

Innovative, precision grain engine

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

Powerful modulation capabilities

Easy drag and drop modulation, with connections list view if needed

Audio / grain-rate modulation

Modulate almost every synth or effect parameter

Highly flexible modulation matrix

9 modulator types, with scope for new options in future - send us your requests!

Envelope, LFO, spline curves, MIDI control with remapping, Step Sequencer, Noise types and sample and hold, XY Pad, Macro knob, and Metadata modulation, offering sample RMS as a modulation source, enabling envelope follower effects and much more

12 modulator slots per patch

Individual send levels and inversion option per destination

Instantiate any modulator as many times as you like, up to available slots - have 12 different LFOs if you want!

FiXED:

Fixed Presets.

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