I get what you’re saying. How I see it rings into clouds is such a meme that anyone who doesn’t hold that opinion about it must be very new so I can’t fault them for it. Brings more people into the game which is a net positive I say. Where did you disappear to anyway? Used to see you post all the time and you went missing for ages
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Yeah, I really don’t understand why I should even have the slightest consideration for what the creator of a product says I should do with something after I buy it.
This is really the first time I’ve ever encountered something like this while looking for gear advice, so I wasn’t sure how to take it. I might not have reacted appropriately, but it just struck me as weird at first.
Anyway, onward and upward.
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I got banned for a year, then I kind of forgot it existed because I wasn’t using any Elektron gear anymore, then I read there was a new third party firmware for the machinedrum and that this is where you dl it, so headed over.
I ordered most of my eurorack modules to experiment with this and see if it works for me, then I run across this, which is the exact, ideal looping setup I could imagine. Mainly the loops keeping in time for sampling, then all the benefits of the Morphagene.
My timing is terrible, I’ve already made a pretty steep investment in a completely different direction. Damn.
I really think microgranny does have some special sauce still after all these years of having it… really minimal, but it sounds pretty great when you drop some midi lfos on different parameters, naturally very raw unworldly alien chirpings and such. I think people would probably talk about the microgranny more if it had built in lfos as not many people bother diving into midi ones. The types of parameters you are manipulating don’t need great resolution though so midi is fine. Elektron samplers kind of do similar things but there is something about working with actually grains that step forward after each pass rather than having the play head speed, grain size and grain movement fight with each other.
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Yeah I like mine too, very immediate and fun, capable of pretty wild sounds.
My only bug is it is a little noisy compared to other gear.
I hope they are working on a polyphonic microgranny.
Has there been a mention yet of the Miso Modular Cornflakes?
It looks pretty cool and brings some unique features to the table.
Some snark about Cornflakes on this ModWiggler thread. Miso Modular Cornflakes - Page 2 - MOD WIGGLER
Yeah. Some concern it may never actually get into people’s hands, but still, if it does materialise, it does some cool things that beads/nebulae/arbhar etc. don’t.
So as an alternative to cornflakes for breakfast, perhaps some would prefer Brinta ?
( BTW Cornflakes is available. Brinta is too. )
Here’s a recent video done by Robin Vincent, mucking about :
For other ways to use Brinta and more details, you can check out the videos and information in this post.
There’s lots of versatility and possibilities for a module so small, and relatively inexpensive.
I agree.
I’m interested in what specifically you might suggest ?
Instruo Arbhar springs to mind. Polyphonic playback of up to 88 grains at any one time is pretty beefy.
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On the expensive side of course. But the Iridium is fantastic for granular stuff. Plus you have so many other engines to pair that sounds with
Also on the slightly more costly side – $1500 USD + tax – is the about to be released Tasty Chips GR-MEGA. ( thread )
The GR-MEGA
Surprises me how it is pretty much ignored, with all the on-going discussion about the teasers for the Torso S-4.
Perhaps with the name it is being confused with the GR-1 ? Not sure.
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Mordax might actually have that in mind, six years later.
Their blurb on the Superbooth Exhibitors List says :
… and the forthcoming GXN Granular Synthesis System
Not that that matters at all now that there 1,001 different granular systems available. It’s all about innovation now.
Will Mordax deliver anything special enough to get any notice ?
Ya…too long ago. Many options now.
Lost interest. 
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I have owned Mordax DATA for thirty months now, and despite the occasional reference to upcoming firmware updates on MW, there has only been one small bug fix. My expectations from this company are now at zero.
Why no one mentioned Tempera?
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No one ever wrote about telephones either in novels before the mid 1800s. Telephones had not yet been invented. ( This thread only got plugged in again six weeks back. )
Good you recommend Tempera. ( thread )
It’s from the Czech company Vector that also makes the Vector Synth.
It’s a multi-sample, 16-voice polyphonic granular synth. The user interface surface gives a lot of flexibility to the user, sort of like if you had eight stereo tape tracks laid vertically, with your finger tips each being little tape heads that can move across different sections of the tape. Nice conceptual easy to understand interface.
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