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This sequel to “1001 Subtractor Patches Refill” was made by Dave of Reasonfreaks and various contributors and once again, the name pretty much says it all.

The refill can be downloaded here

The Malström is a very advanced synth. It uses a cool way of sound generation which is called Graintable synthesis. This is actually an invention of Propellerhead.

The Malström is a very advanced synth. It uses a cool way of sound generation which is called Graintable synthesis. This is actually an invention of Propellerhead. They have combined Granular synthesis with Wavetable synthesis. Graintable synthesis uses wavetable like sounds. Which are sampled sounds like the attack of a guitar. Then this sound is cut up in little parts which are the grains. Each of these grains have a timbre (sound color) of their own. If you load up a graintable and leave all the controls on the Malström alone the sound will play back like it would have normally.

The fun part begins when you start to mess, speed and modulate the grain sequence up. You can control the speed of which the grain sequence is played without changing the pitch of the graintable. You could also isolate one grain at a time by making the sequence to stand still. Further on in this tutorial you will learn how to do that. I’ll try to explain each control of the Malström and tell you what it’s used for. Read the rest of this entry »