Granular synthesis

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The chapter on granular synthesis from the SuperCollider book is quite helpful too

Definitely. Code examples (Alberto’s Chapter 16) can be found here:

GitHub - madskjeldgaard/scbookcode: The code examples used in the SuperCollider book...

Note the incluced and necessary extension. Also, this refers to an old SC-version, replace memStore by add.

miSCellaneous_lib contains the tutorials ‘Buffer Granulation’ and ‘Live Granulation’ (without buffering). Other classes of miSCellaneous also refer to granulation: DX suite (multichannel envelopes), PbindFx (granulation with effects), Sieves and Psieve patterns, ZeroXBufRd / TZeroXBufRd (wavesets), PLbindef / PLbindefPar (granulation and live coding).

Here’s another live granulation strategy not included in the tutorial:

Real-Time Attack and Decay Control of grain envelope for Granular Synthesis

Hi, Patterns are one, but certainly not the only approach. As always, much depends on personal taste. I think that Patterns are most flexible for granular synthesis, so it might be that a certain bias from my side comes across in miSCellaneous_lib’s Buffer Granulation tutorial, although it contains alternative server-side and hybrid approaches as well. With Pattern-based granulation, you can do granulation with some hundred grains triggered per second. But indeed, as @scztt points to, you are …