Minimal Audio has launched Lucid, a new granular effect plugin that’s able to rebuild any sound grain by grain into complex musical textures and harmonies.
Offering “complete musical control over time and pitch”, Lucid rebuilds sounds completely in key with your project, with “industry-first grain scale-locking” to ensure each grain is in key with your chosen scale, while timeline sync keeps stretching, freezing and playback locked to your session.
As a plugin available within your DAW of choice, Lucid can be placed onto any audio source for immediate granular processing.
At the core of the plugin is its granular engine, which rebuilds any incoming sound grain by grain in real time, resulting in otherworldly textures and sounds. There’s also 350 presets to browse at launch, with searchable tags and performance-ready macros.
As you can set Lucid to rebuild sounds within a specific key, it’s easy to play with granular harmonies, chords and arpeggiated sequences, too.
In addition to the granular engine at the heart of the plugin, Lucid also includes a flexible effects rack ripe for sonic enhancement and creative processing. Eight swappable effects are included, including multi-band compression, frequency shifting, reverb, distortion and more.
The plugin also features a powerful modulation system shared with Minimal Audio’s other products, Current and Rift. This enables you to modulate any parameter with sequencers, envelope followers, and LFOs to add movement and depth.
Lucid is available now. For more info, head to Minimal Audio, and take advantage of an early discount over at Plugin Boutique.
Sam is the Associate News Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Thoroughly immersed in music culture for the majority of his life, Sam has played guitar for 20 years, studied music technology and production at university, and also written for the likes of MusicRadar, Guitar World, Total Guitar and Metal Hammer.
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