HISSTools Granular

HISSTools Granular UI

HISSTools Granular is a lightweight plugin for granular synthesis based on samples.

HISSTools Granular was originally built for teaching purposes at the University of Huddersfield.
It supports the generation of grains in either 'streams' or 'clouds' modes.
It allows per-grain distortion and filtering, as well as giving control of more common granular synthesis parameters.
A full manual can be found here.

Formats / OS:

HISSTools Granular is curently provided as AUv2 (mac only) and VST2 / VST3 (mac / windows).
Other formats are support by iPlug 2 but not yet configured to build correctly.

Automated builds of the plugin can be found on the releases page of GitHub (the latest version is at the top).
If you do not need to build from source you are strongly advised to download the official builds linked above, rather than to download the source code / repository available directly from the frontpage of the repo on GitHub.

You will require a fully setup version of iPlug 2.
This repo is designed to be placed in a subfolder of the iPlug 2 repository (e.g. iPlug2/Projects).
The HISSTools_PluginLib repo is also required to be placed next to this one before building (e.g. iPlug2/Projects).
You will need to make sure that the HISSTools_Library submodule is correctly initialised (which can be done with git submodule update --init if you have already pulled the repository and you did not pull in a manner that already handled this).
The supplied Xcode workspace and Visual Studio solution should then build the valid plugin formats (AUv2 / VST2 / VST3) correctly.

iPlug 2 - a C++ audio plug-in framework for desktop, mobile (iOS) and web
https://github.com/iPlug2/iPlug2
HISSTools_PluginLib - Common code that provides UI controls / DSP for all HISSTools plugins
https://github.com/AlexHarker/HISSTools_PluginLib
HISSTools_Library - a C++ library for DSP (included as a submodule)
https://github.com/AlexHarker/HISSTools_Library

HISSTools Granular by Alex Harker
CeReNeM - The University of Huddersfield