GRFX by Imaginando: Granular Meets Modular Multi-FX in a Cool GUI
New Sound Design Plugin for Advanced Users
4,3 / 5,0 | 
GRFX by Imaginando: Granular Meets Modular Multi-FX in a Cool GUI · Source: Imaginando
With GRFX, software developer Imaginando presents a new effect processor that takes granular sound processing to the next level in a playful and technically sophisticated way. And not only graphically very cool. The plugin focuses on the creative decomposition and recomposition of sounds in connection with a modular effect concept that will surely appeal to experimental sound designers and composers with ambitions.
All About Imaginando GRFX
Imaginando GRFX Takes Granular Sound Design to the Next Level
At the heart of Imaginando GRFX is a granular engine that draws on classic parameters such as grain size, envelope shape, frequency range and pitch, but adds innovative control options such as random modulation and targeted probability distribution of sound fragments. If you are interested in organic movement, changing textures and self-evolving soundscapes, this is a tool that goes far beyond what you are used to with conventional granular processors. Very powerful!
A notable feature is the so-called Harmonic Triangle, a three-pole control panel that not only visually invites interaction, but also very effectively influences harmonic sound movements. Using morphing techniques, individual sound fragments can be combined to form musical structures that oscillate between chords, arpeggios, and microtonal structures.
Granular Effects with Innovative Modulation Structure
Controlling the unit with a mouse or MIDI controller makes the whole process highly intuitive, while routing individual grain paths to two separate effect blocks, a mixer, and delay and reverb sections allows for great sonic depth. You can distribute sound components in a targeted, probabilistic way, or route them through the system completely randomly – always with the goal of creating new sonic constructs. And it’s a lot of fun!
Further refinement is provided by an integrated effects architecture with two full-featured multi-FX units, each with filter, distortion, delay, EQ, chorus, phaser, bit crusher and reverb. These can be used individually, in series or in parallel, and can be fine-tuned using a flexible mixer with return channels. There are also two additional reverb and delay sends that can be configured independently of the main signal.
GRFX Offers Randomization, Harmony and Sound Decomposition in a Single Plugin
If you want to modulate the sound, you have access to four versatile LFOs with different waveforms, drag-and-drop assignment and even cross-modulation – so you have the possibility to influence the modulators reciprocally, giving the whole system a high degree of dynamics.
Imaginando’s GRFX proves to be a sophisticated tool for modern sound design, allowing you as a granular sound designer to create many creative sounds and soundscapes. The modular structure, combined with targeted effect processing and flexible modulation, allows sonic experimentation with a high degree of precision and a great deal of creative freedom. If you are looking for an inspiring tool to create vivid textures, unconventional atmospheres or rhythmic sound movements, you should definitely take a closer look at this plugin.
Price and Availability
Imaginando GRFX is available here at Plugin Boutique* at a price of $32 / £25 / €29. If you purchase the plugin, you will also receive MOK Miniraze for free until April 30, 2025.
The plugin is available in 64-bit in VST, VST3 and AU formats and runs on Windows 10 or later and macOS 11 or later. A demo version and user manual can be downloaded from the manufacturer’s website.
More Information
- Product page at Imaginando
- More about Imaginando
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