A standalone granular sampler. Terra records a few seconds of audio into a buffer and plays it back as overlapping grains, steered by an on-panel XY field — read position on one axis, grain pitch on the other. Six voices spread around that point for thick, gestural textures. Released as a standalone experiment outside the main module families.
Six grain voices share a stereo 8-second buffer fed from the audio input; FREEZE captures the buffer so you can scrub a held sound. The XY field sets the center of the playback — X is read position, Y is grain pitch (±12 semitones) — while the POSITION and PITCH knobs (with X-CV / Y-CV) move it. SPREAD distributes the voices on a ring around that point and SCATTER randomizes each grain.
DENSITY (1–100 grains/sec), SIZE (1–500 ms), SHAPE (Hann to rectangular), JITTER, and FEEDBACK shape the grain cloud, and V/OCT transposes the whole field. Outputs are a stereo mix plus a polyphonic out carrying one voice per channel for downstream processing. Terra is on the experimental track, so its panel and docs are still settling.
The module ships from the SHLabs GitHub. Detail page and panel screenshot land here once the design settles.
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