Grainer arrives on Tonverk as part of a major OS upgrade, adding a new, creative, and playful granular machine. Also arriving are more features, more possibilities, and a number of improvements and fixes - especially when it comes to performance and stability.
Grainer
Grainer is a SRC machine that lets you chop and sculpt your sample from the smallest fragments of sound into entirely new sonic forms. You control grain amount, size, density, position, randomness, spread, direction, and more - with three Play Modes that shift it from drifting pads to tempo-synced stutters to smooth, oscillating layers. Dive in and explore - you’ll likely manipulate your own wild sounds into existence. Jump over to the FLTR page and dial in Grainer’s unique dual shelving filter to take things even further. Each voice can run up to eight grains, and with every one of Tonverk’s audio tracks able to use eight voices, the Grainer potential is massive. It’s granular made polyphonic, tactile, and expressive.
Shape machine added
Shape is a special machine added to enable the shaping of sound on the bus and send tracks. These can be utilized via additional parameters on the filter page, offering a dual shelving filter with low shelf gain, low shelf frequency, high shelf gain and high shelf frequency. You can also head to AMP to access ADSR or AHD envelopes and stereo width control on these tracks.
Bus compressor Sidechain source
Choose what the compressor listens to when shaping the bus mix. Select any track (TRK 1–8) or the external inputs as the sidechain source - letting kicks carve space, external signals drive movement, or any element in your pattern control the dynamics of the whole bus track.
Post FX pan control
Open up the FX Setup and gain the ability to pan the track’s sound after the effects stage, affecting the entire output of the track. This is available for all audio tracks, as well as the buses and sends.
Numerous fixes and improvements
We’ve tackled bugs and made improvements all across Tonverk. The USB MIDI input and output is now functioning as intended (alongside the previously fixed MIDI over DIN), meaning you can create multisampled instruments yourself with ease, via the Auto Sampler. Undo/Redo functionality is also accessible for paste/clear operations of patterns and track sequences, with deeper Undo/Redo powers to come/in the pipeline. The sample browser’s look and feel have been sharpened too, part of a number of general improvements to navigation, performance, and stability.
And more
Then there’s a bunch more things added too, from Trig Preview offering a quick and easy view of what lives on each trig, to a name editor in the Auto Sampler, support for loading samples in additional audio formats (specifically FLAC and ALAC - M4A and CAF), and a new handy little memory-usage display.
Please check the release notes to see all features, improvements, and fixes included in the OS. There are a few more fixes that didn’t quite make 1.1.0 that we’ll put out in the near future, and we’re already looking forward to the next big updates for both Tonverk, and its siblings.
Check out the Grainer tutorial.
Watch the OS launch video here.
And look/listen out for more snippets of Grainer, spread out across all of our platforms.
