Introducing GRFX – Granular Effects | Granular Audio Plugin by Imaginando

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Imaginando Launches GRFX – Granular Effects: Turn One Sound Into a Universe

7th April 2025 – Braga, Portugal – Imaginando is proud to announce the release of GRFX – Granular Effects, a powerful new audio plugin designed to radically transform sound through the magic of granulation. GRFX takes granular processing to new creative heights—offering a flexible, expressive, and highly playable environment for sound design, experimentation, and exploration.

With GRFX, users can break down ordinary audio into micro-particles and rebuild it into evolving pads and drones, glitchy rhythms, ethereal textures, or alien soundscapes. Whether sparse or dense, shimmering or chaotic, GRFX is your sandbox for bending reality—layering, modulating, and shaping sound through time and space.

At the heart of GRFX is the Harmonic Triangle: an interactive, three-point control panel that morphs your sound into chords, arpeggios, and microtonal variations. This unique interface invites exploration and 'happy accidents,' especially when combined with the plugin’s four cross-modulatable LFOs.

Modulation is made effortless with drag-and-drop routing, instant amount control, and a global

Modulation Panel. A probability-based routing system lets users direct grains to the two

multi-effect engines, the Mixer, and dedicated Delay and Reverb sends—each with independent routing for rich, layered sonic results.

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Strokes Multi Out Beta with Imaginando VS

video upload by BoBSwanS

"Just a quick test of 5 tracks using the latest beta of Cong Burn 'Strokes' https://www.congburn.co.uk/strokes
Multi outs from Strokes into Ableton, Using Strokes Receiver to pump Midi into VS Visual Synth https://www.imaginando.pt/products/vs..."

STROKES

Sequencer, Sampler, Synthesizer & Groovebox

Runs on Windows 10/11, MacOS 10.11 & iOS 11 (or later)

Supports Intel Macs and runs natively on Apple Silicon

Quickstart guides for Ableton Live, Bitwig, VCV Rack, Cubase, FL Studio & Logic

On iOS, runs as an AUv3 inside a host, or as a standalone application

Strokes is an all-in-one, cross-platform workstation for sequencing, sampling and synthesis.

"Strokes is an amazing device for rhythmic inspiration. Its a lot of fun to play with and can lead to some very cool unexpected patterns and combinations" - Tom Rowlands [Chemical Brothers]

SynthFest UK 2022 - New Product Launches

Use the player controls to skip around. See the SynthFest UK label below for additional posts.

Playlist:
SynthFest 2022 - Steve Levine
SynthFest UK 2022 - Yamaha MODX+ Range
SynthFest UK 2022 - Bjooks Roland & Korg Book Titles
SynthFest UK 2022 - Korg Drumlogue
SynthFest UK 2022 - Digisound Full Modular Range
SynthFest 2022 - Imaginando Visual Synthesizer
SynthFest UK 2022 - AJH Synth Minimod System
SynthFest UK 2022 - Studio Fabrications Prototype Instrument
SynthFest UK 2022 - IK Multimedia iLoud Precision Range
SynthFest UK 2022 - Enjoy Electronics The Godfather
SynthFest UK 2022 - Soundtronics Full Synth & Module Range
SynthFest UK 2022 - Tileyard North

Audiovisual Piano Jam (iPad + Roli Lightpad Block)

video upload by Perplex On

"Playing some piano sequences using #roliblocks #lightpad loaded with #pressurecafe script which sends notes to the iPad loaded with #purepiano and #decentsampler and a few fx. The same midi notes are used to trigger the visuals made with #visualsynthesizer @Imaginando using my preset 'Blinds' that comes with the recent Retina Refill preset pack."

Imaginando FRMS, Birdkids OffGrid and Cocoquantus2

video upload by Luca Longobardi

"I put together a very special live set that will debut very soon.
Looking forward to tell you more about it."

"Autumn Rain" - Jupiter-Xm, iPad Air 4, Boss EV-1 WL

video upload by gattobus

"Headphones recommended.
Real time performance, no overdubs or backing track.
I used a Roland Jupiter-Xm with BOSS EV-1 WL Wireless Expression Pedal, an iPad Air 4 running the following Apps: Kymatica AUM, Fugue Machine, Patterning Drum Machine, BPST Zeon, Imaginando DRC, Decent Sampler, Bleass Granulizer, AudioDamage Channel Strip, Kymatica AU3FX Space."

GLITCHES FROM THE HEART (FRMS Preset Pack By Perplex On)

video by Perplex On

"I had the huge opportunity to create my very own patches for FRMS synth. Have fun exploring them and i hope they inspire you for your own musical adventures. Read a bit about the creation process here: https://www.imaginando.pt/media/intro..."

Let's Play with FRMS

Published on Mar 28, 2020 Tim Webb

"Imaginando brings us an impressive combination of granular and traditional synthesis in a powerhouse combination. This video is a bit unlike others in this series. Due to the complexity of FRMS, I didn't try going into this with a clear plan. I just wanted to document the sound design process. Which honestly turned into a train wreck that lasted over an hour. I've done some aggressive editing on this to bring it down to less than 30 minutes.

I think it still retains all of the essential information. I hope it reveals that the process of creating a patch doesn't always go smoothly, but if you take your time and explore you will be rewarded! I love the final result!

FRMS on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1381392223

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FRMS - Granular Synthesizer

Published on Mar 23, 2020 Imaginando

"To celebrate the release of FRMS we have a very special launch offer:
50% OFF ALL VERSIONS UNTIL 12TH APRIL 2020.
Get FRMS right now for half price - https://www.imaginando.pt/products/frms

FRMS (pronounced frames) gives granular synthesis a musical edge by mixing it with subtractive and FM synthesis to produce a wide variety of possible timbres. From heavily-dense ambient drones, to glitchy mechanical beings, turn simple sounds into complex evolving soundscapes, with up to four layers of synthesis in any combination.

FRMS is available for Windows, Mac OS, iOS and Android. All versions use the same high-quality audio engine and support Imaginando Cloud Sync, so you can go granular on the go!

Features:

- 3 synth engines, 4 layers per voice
- Granular, Subtractive, FM
- 8 FM modes, layers as operators
- Granulate Samples or Live Audio
- Up to 20 grains per layer
- 1 modulation matrix per layer
- 2 EG’s per layer
- 1 filter per layer and a master filter
- 8 voices polyphony
- 4 LFO’s with 5 modes
- Arpeggiator with 5 modes
- Delay and Reverb FX as layer send
- High Quality Sample Bank
- Built-in Audio Recorder
- MPE Compatible
- Ableton Link

We can’t wait to see and hear all the crazy twisted and warped sounds you guys get out of FRMS, so be sure to share your creations with us!"

DRC Analog Modelling Synth Demo

Published on May 8, 2017 redskylullaby

"DRC multi platform synth for iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows and Android by Imaginando. Demo on iPad version of some presets played with CME XKey Air bluetooth midi keyboard."

Still free on iTunes: DRC - Polyphonic Synthesizer - Imaginando, Sociedade Unipessoal Lda

DRC - Polyphonic Synthesizer

Published on Mar 10, 2016 Imaginando

Currently free on iTunes: DRC - Polyphonic Synthesizer - Imaginando, Sociedade Unipessoal Lda

"DRC is powerful virtual analog polyphonic synthesizer that recreates the characteristic sound of an analog synthesizer.

DRC aims to reproduce the special characteristic of the most cherished analog synthesizers by proving a minimal but powerful set of parameters, for limited but incredible sonic capabilities.

Designed with portability in mind, it’s sound engine is common to all platforms sounding exactly the same whether you use it on VST, iOS or Android.

With the cloud preset sync technology, DRC enables you to sync patches across devices effortlessly. With this powerful feature, you to start the creative process on one device and continue on another, seamlessly.

Features:

- Up to 8 voices
- Two main oscillators, one sub-oscillator and one noise source
- Detune, sync and ring modulation
- 4 pole self resonant low pass Ladder Filter
- 2 pole multi-mode filter (LP, HP, BD, NOTCH)
- 2 LFO's and 2 analog modeled envelope generators
- Stereo Tape Delay with time modulation
- Lush Stereo Reverb with modulation and self growing decay
- True stereo, analog modeled multi mode chorus
- Arpeggiator with 4 modes, tempo sync and hold function
- MIDI compatible (in/out/ext sync/clock out)
- Audiobus and Ableton Link ready (iOS only)"

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