I dropped an entire piano track into a granular synth (Native Instruments Straylight)

[@frankwalders]

What I really really really appreciate is that you include your whole track at the end. There are so many of these videos and then I think "yeah it sounds weird, but what do you do with it" you showed and let me listen to it. Very inspiring and beautiful! Thanks for the video and the music. (I use Omnisphere and Falcon for Granular, sorry the usual suspects, but they do a very good job)

[@HermesAndroidProject]

Beautiful use of granular synthesis.

[@paulchapman112]

Wow, an amazing video start to end. That's the most variety / scope - an acoustic piano through to a recent synth / grain. You're all over it.

[@garaughty]

A seriously awesome use of Straylight... brilliant work Jameson !

[@christophermatranga7778]

love your videos, love your tracks, especially this one. thanks!

[@aquietgarden]

Beautiful work. You created something way over what I was expecting when I showed up here to explore Straylight!

[@IvoSiem]

The piece at the end is simply beautiful. Soulful, calm with the right amount of experimentation and texture. Thank you very much.

[@DavidChello]

Hi, stumbled across this video this evening. Very creative, nicely played, and well-granularized! The edges and textures are pleasing to the ear, as well as how you drew them into the main motif. A harmonic and melodic sketch which suits the felt piano sound well. I appreciate it.

[@ronniboi312]

A moment of serendipity brought me here... subscribed & liked I thought your presentation was first class and even THIS LUDDITE understood what you were doing..!!! liked the fact that you played the finished composition at the end Guitar's my weapon of choice and I'm new to adventures in granular synthesis. I am looking at Output portal as an effects tool to use as I'm playing directly into Logic, but as I already have NI Komplete 14 I guess I'll have to visit Straylight with new eyes & ears and an open mind..!!! Have you looked at Portal? Beautiful atmospheric piece at the end... it really resonated with me

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Thanks! Never tried Portal but it looks great 👍

[@marcclish]

Wow!! Love the track.. the piano toward the end 🖤

[@EarlyMist]

18:00 minutes sounds like a combo of wood creaking and fire crackling, but kinda not at the same time. Quite otherworldly. Great stuff.

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Thanks! I love running live recordings through granular engines to break apart all those organic textures

[@EarlyMist]

@@JamesonNathanJones certainly worthy of cinematics/game atmos with your playing, or maybe meditation style soundtrack 👍

[@jnsl1982]

I love dropping "weird" samples into Straylight, especially with lots of jitters and randomness. Awesome for cinematic textures.

[@vvcv__00]

What a nice find within a software instrument! Also, thank a lot for sharing with us. I'm in the same boat with granular instruments. I play keys and archtop jazz guitars, and since finding the world of granular, i've left my guitar alone (which i played more often) for quite some time so far. There is something about the whole granular journey that i find interesting. I sort of feel like an archeologist who is looking for that one (or many) sampled piece(s) which to work with on melody, pad, etc. Anyway, I though you may be interested in (if you haven't found it yet) Tape Room by Spitfire -it's a Kontakt instrument as well. I don't think you can add your own samples, however, it comes with many great samples which to work with. You can make a fairly dynamic song, with many varied themes, passages, etc., by using only one sample. I map the instruments knobs to my midi controller, which then adds many more options to the sample while playing. I don't know, from the type of sounds you seemed to like here, I really think Tape Room would be a nice addition to your bag of tools. Thanks again!

[@K-ORA]

Fantastic! Thanks for showing another cool approach

[@statiksky1]

That track was so relaxing 😌. Loving the vids my friend

[@Garflips]

Excellent. For additional granular adventures, I'd recommend Baby Audio's Spaced Out and Granite by New Sonic Arts. Granite also lets you drop in an entire track and has some nice animatable modulation. A lot of great tools out there. Got to add - I agree, there's nothing like playing an upright with the doors open. Make music, not war.

[@VibrantDesigns]

Straylight looks mad expensive, makes it seem like you are producing in the sunset, cool video, more on granular pls

[@WinItReigns]

Can you maybe do another video with this library😊

[@Emotivis]

Thanks Jameson. This presentation is interesting.

[@sathyngouane359]

Wow ! Great !!!!

[@johnr8106]

Very inspirational! Thanks

[@oliverrees9397]

Wow that's truly inspired me for an idea what a great video and wonderful piece at the end bravo

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Thank you Oliver 🙏

[@thesoundgardxn]

Very interesting idea, will have try that 👍🏻

[@vladimircerovic]

Fantastic.

[@boybianchi]

Interesting. I have a similar setup and got hooked on Cycles by Slateandash. Also a very fun Kontakt based engine with effects that are out of this world. Anyway, thanks for making these videos. Inspiring!

[@AndrewHeathArts]

Excellent video. I’m currently in awe of Fragments by Arturia. It’s not an instrument but an FX plugin. I’ve tried it with piano and field recordings and I loose hours of the day!

[@ZachSprowls]

Dude, great video. A demo that’s actually helpful and applicable to my style (also neoclassical). I’m wondering if you’ve experimented with Mangle granular synth. An old plugin, super simple. It doesn’t look like it’s always maintained but still seems to be working, and, hey, it’s only like $20. Are you familiar with it? Any thoughts?

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Not familiar with Mangle but will check it out. Thanks Zach!

[@ShadyRonin]

maaaaan this is so cool. Incredible idea. Those little notes when you first started testing playing the full track reminded me of sounds you'd hear in a Silent Hill game. Also, what is the song at 2:17? Have you released that? It's really nice

[@JamesonNathanJones]

It's a single from last year called "Places We Could Have Gone" and it's on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp :)

[@ShadyRonin]

@@JamesonNathanJones sweet, will check it out!

[@nkozi]

those a pair of Oktavas on the piano? 👀

[@JamesonNathanJones]

They are indeed

[@MarcoPolux]

Check out Equator2 for anything in synthesis and sound design...Wavetable, Granular, Multi-Sampler, Noise.. you'll love it.

[@VibrantDesigns]

What song 2:24 ?

[@JamesonNathanJones]

open.spotify.com/track/2gDFPo5Mez3k6dajLQ28Cm?si=dfec71967fce4ba7

[@VibrantDesigns]

@@JamesonNathanJones Thanks

[@alsopatrick]

welp you accidentally sold me the NI light trilogy. which happens to be on sale right now!

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Just tell NI I sent you….and they’ll be like: “who?” 😂🥹

[@inanesilence]

Have you tested this software with the GR1? I think is valuable to use expensive options like GR1 or IRIDIUM vs NI Straylight. Thank you!

[@JamesonNathanJones]

I don’t have a GR-1, but against the granular engine of Iridium, Straylight stacks up favorably in my opinion. However, the Iridium can do SO many other things and the ability to layer all of them together is its real strength. The GR-1 does have 4 granular layers and seems incredibly inspiring to use as a hardware unit though.

[@inanesilence]

@@JamesonNathanJones if you could choose only one of those??

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Straylight for the money. That said, I’d love to get my hands on a GR-1 one day 😅

[@jscj2066]

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[@lab-by-the-sea]

I use the bitwig grid

[@user-ze7vw8qb5y]

sounds like tim hecker radio amor

[@camreese1444]

This is a great video, but I gotta say. I straight up hated those tiny mod sticks on that studio logic sl.. great keys tho

[@camreese1444]

Great composition too, which is most important

[@sebastianmoggia4800]

Another inspiring music and video, thanks 🙏.... Have you tried Silo from Unfiltered Audio?

[@JamesonNathanJones]

I haven’t, but will check it out!

[@sebastianmoggia4800]

@@JamesonNathanJones Silo is a insert granular plugin. No need for drag and drop sampler, works straight in your audio or instrument track, plus others functions like recording mode.

[@aristotlekumpis7095]

Straylight looks pretty interesting. What other software does this but in real time? Any suggestions?

[@JamesonNathanJones]

Great question. Off the top of my head, I think there’s one from Output that does real time granular processing, but I’m sure there are others. I would imagine you lose a lot of the deeper modulation capabilities since you’re limited to a live source, but I did enjoy doing some live granular with my Iridium.

[@denistunguz]

@@JamesonNathanJones Haven't found a nice plugin for that yet... but never tried Portal from Output. Seems like a different approach to granular synthesis. That's why I just ordered the 1010Music Lemondrop that does real time processing, which sounds really good from what I've heard. Nothing like it at that price!

[@CHONKERBOT]

I've just finished playing with the Granular II M4L device in Ableton for the first time. I haven't thought about dragging and dropping, but used the companion plugin Granular Input on an audio track. It has a buffer size option, and you can trigger listening by pushing a button, mapping, or programming the automation. It’s fantastic, straightforward to use, and lightweight as the one function module created to be a part of the chain

[@CHONKERBOT]

But I want to check that shiny NI plugin NOW!

[@dazeja]

I have Output's Portal and it does live real-time processing. I'm assuming what you mean by real-time is that you don't have to drop in samples. Portal will process signal going through it, even hardware, if you have it routed correctly in your daw. That's the plus. The negative side is that you don't have the amount of mod options and (at least to me) it just sounds to digital. I always have to layer a saturation effect or additional filter effect on top of if, or my favorite chain is Portal

[@MikkelGrumBovin]

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