Spindrift Playground

A free MacOS granular synthesis app with easy yet sophisticated spatial and timbral controls

About

A standalone Max/MSP application that lets you apply sophisticated granular synthesis to an audio file. While playing around with Spindrift’s parameters, you can record the output to a new soundfile, for importing into your favourite DAW. Despite its simplicity, Spindrift Playground has very sophisticated spatialisation features, including the ability to work in quadraphonic or octophonic sound, with automated spatial trajectories, and parameter interpolation to create gradually transforming sound clouds.

Spindrift Playground uses the Spindrift external for Max.

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System Requirements

Mac OS X 10.10 or later