Creating granular synthesis with Fruity Granulizer

Fruity Granulizer is an effect using granular synthesis. Granular synthesis splits source audio into small pieces called grains. These grains are then looped and played back based on the plugin settings.

Fruity Granulizer is a great effect for bass sound design and for transitions such as risers and falling sound effects.

Let’s get started using Fruity Granulizer:

1. Create a new pattern and add it to the playlist.
2. In the channel rack, insert the new instrument, Fruity Granulizer:

Figure 11.11 – Fruity Granulizer

3. Load a new sample into Fruity Granulizer such as by clicking in Click to Load Sample and navigating to an audio sample you want to use. Alternatively, you can drag and drop a sample from the browser into Fruity Granulizer:

Figure 11.12 – Fruity Granulizer loaded with sample

4. We need MIDI data to tell Fruity Granulizer when to play...