A 16-pad sampler powered by granular synthesis. Record anything. Sculpt it grain by grain. Sequence it on the spot.
Sixteen pads. One hundred twenty-eight grains. Endless possibilities.
Sixteen pads, each with its own sample and live waveform preview. Tap to trigger, hold to tweak, swap the whole kit with a scene name at the top. Step sequencer right below the grid.
Five knobs — Size, Density, Pitch, Spray, Spread — plus a dedicated ADSR envelope, four window shapes (Hanning, Gaussian, Triangle, Trapezoid), and reverse playback. Up to 128 grains at once. Switch between Linear and Granular on the fly.
A full mixer: volume fader, pan knob, mute, and solo per pad. Color-matched to the grid so you always know what's where.
EQ, Compressor, Reverb, Delay, Distortion, Chorus, and a multi-mode Filter — seven effects, stackable up to eight per pad, chain reorderable anytime.
Up to 60 seconds from your mic. Scale Lock pitches your source into any root (C–B) and scale (Maj, Min, Penta, Dor, Phr, Chrom) — perfectly in tune before it hits a pad.
16, 32, or 64 steps with per-step velocity, synced to the metronome. Tap steps live while pads play.
Run GranSample inside any AUv3 host — Logic, AUM, GarageBand. Per-pad parameters automate from the host; MIDI Settings live in the extension itself.
Trigger pads from any external MIDI controller. Per-pad note mapping in Settings, velocity-sensitive.
Native landscape body on iPad — pad grid, properties panel, and step sequencer share the screen without scrolling.
Ten scene palettes to start from — each loads a whole kit and effect chain tuned to a mood.
Toggle any pad between clean one-shot playback and full granular synthesis. Same sample, two completely different instruments.
Everything under the hood, at a glance.
Built in the open — here's what just landed and what's next.
Per-pad LFO for the granular cloud — six waveforms, host-sync or free-Hz, modulating grain position, size, and pitch. Pro feature.
Native landscape layout on iPad, plus a fix that bridges Pro entitlement into the AUv3 plugin via App Group.
Run GranSample inside any AUv3 host (Logic, AUM, GarageBand). Per-pad parameter automation; MIDI Settings sheet inside the extension.
Factory + user kits, FX preset chips, and live EQ/Filter curve readouts you can drag.
Play pads from any external MIDI controller, or fan one sample across all 16 pads at semitone pitches.
Thread-safe voice allocation and per-pad 1/√N master compensation — drop granular on every pad without crackle.
Snap grains to any key, unlock all 16 pads, WAV/M4A export.
Slice a long sample across the 16 pads — equal, transient-aligned, or manually placed.
Chain patterns into verse → drop → breakdown arrangements on one track.
Sync tempo with DAWs and other iOS apps over Wi-Fi.
Free to download. No accounts. No tracking.