Red Timbre Audio Graphiti & DelayCat are new granular sampler and delay plugins with AI-supported audio analysis algorithms.
Since last year, granular synthesis has been a big topic in electronic music production. A lot of new granular hardware has come onto the market, and the market for granular software is also growing and growing.
The latest release comes from a new company named Red Timbre Audio. They published not only a new granular instrument but also an effect—so granular double fun.
Red Timbre Audio Graphiti
Graphiti is a new granular sampler plugin for macOS and Windows. The engine uses analysis and AI to organize sample audio into clusters of grains.
Drag and drop your samples into the plugin and select your analysis settings. You can tweak grain and sample analysis by modifying the weight of the parameters. You can adjust the loudness, max burst, strongest frequency, core frequency, noisiness, slope, change, brightness, richness, activity, and timbre.
Based on these settings, the engine then analyzes the sample content. Once you’ve done this, Graphiti will paint a colorful picture of grains in the plugin’s center. Red Timbre Audio added grain parameters to Graphiti in this section, including window, envelope, separation, size, pitch, and more.
Then, you can have two envelopes, one for the amp and another for the pitch. There is also a playlist feature. According to Red Timbre Audio, the plugin is designed to breathe new life into sample libraries.
It looks like an exciting new granular sampler plugin. Some demo sounds are on YouTube. They don’t trigger a wow moment, but I think you can generate a lot of rich textures with Graphiti. Unfortunately, there is no demo version yet.
Red Timbre Audio DelayCat
The second plugin, DelayCat, was released in June. Since I didn’t report on it, I’ll catch up on it now.
DelayCat is a unique delay plugin that focuses on textures and unusual delay-based effects. Its core consists of a delay line-powered extraction audio analysis and concatenation synthesis techniques.
Concentration synthesis is a method for creating new sounds from short pieces or segments of audio. Yes, it is a bit like granular synthesis but with more control through the grains, thanks to its analysis-based engine.
It works by analyzing and breaking down your sound into segments in real-time. Then, it uses these segments to create new delayed sounds, selecting segments with a special algorithm incorporating delay time.
DelayCat has a wide arsenal of parameters – a lot for a delay. It has a signal flow section with dry/wet control and feedback controls, a segment selection part, and a segment section. Like the Red Timbre Audio Graphiti sampler plugin, the analysis + granular part works with weights that can be set in a dedicated section.
The developer promises you can make all kinds of effects with DelayCat, from regular delays to new textures. There is no demo version for DeleyCat either. But I like the sounds that the plugin generates (demo video). Nice textures that mix into the dry signals.
First Impression
Two exciting new granular plugins, each with its twist. I hope there will soon be demo versions with which you can test the plugins.
Red Timbre Audio Graphiti is available now for a limited time at an introductory price of $29,99 instead of $99,99, and DelayCat is on sale for $19,99 instead of $79,99. They run as VST2, VST3, AU, and AAX plugins on macOS (native Apple Silicon + Intel) and Windows.
More information here: Red Timbre Audio
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