GRDelay

What it does

A delay that generates up to 16 stereo grains in real time from delayed copies of the input. Grain shape can be a saw, ramp, triangle or a random pick per grain, and a probability dial sets how often grains release, from a continuous stream to sparse glitches. Separate minimum and maximum delay times create scatter, an octave switch shifts grains up or randomly, and cascade feeds one grain into another.

In the demo

Jade builds it up one control at a time on a synth line in AUM, then pulls the dry signal out to hear the grains alone. She runs it on drums, guitar and vocals, and ends by dropping it into a track she is recording to dirty a clean section.

Worth knowing

There is no tempo sync, which Jade raises while using it rhythmically on drums, and high grain counts with cascade get DSP heavy. It colours the signal rather than behaving like a conventional delay.