GR-MEGA - Full overview and Preset demos

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GR-MEGA - Full overview and Preset demos

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Күн бұрын

The GR-MEGA is a sound designer's dream, offering near limitless possibilities to record and manipulate samples, even in real-time, all supported by a hands-on interface that gives you instant access to complex modulation, slicing and dicing, sequencing and effects.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:54 Table of content
02:06 Overview
09:47 Connectivity
10:33 Granular
16:43 Granular slice
20:12 Sampler
23:38 Tape
27:34 Spectral
29:38 Multitimbral
34:06 Live sampling
36:10 Saving/loading
36:49 Availability
37:35 Preset demos
All audio in the demonstrations are directly from the GR-MEGA, and no audio processing is applied.
Headphones are recommended for the best listening experience.
Website: www.tastychips.nl/
KZfaq: / tastychips
Instagram: / tastychips_synth
Facebook: / tastychipselectronics
Dealers:
Perfect Circuit Audio, Burbank, USA
SchneidersLaden, Berlin, Germany
Granular synthesis explained: • Tasty Chips GR-1 Tutor...
GR-Mega commercial: • GR-Mega
Sound design: / mistaeks_music

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@Sensorium_Studios 21 күн бұрын

Great demo but we need to see more versatility of material. Best investment you could make would be getting one of these into the hands of Stimming to do a demo video on using vocal samples with this.

@OxygenSoundStudios Ай бұрын

Amazing work guys! You can really see how much thought, time, effort and love had gone into it. Can't wait to receive mine! :)

@rayabsent2087 Ай бұрын

explanation of hdmi existence 👌

@Bouwput 29 күн бұрын

I really would like to see such a comprehensive demo with samples and phrases of natural recordings of instruments or vocals. Using already heavy processed synth and artificial sources somehow doesn’t show me the real sonic potential of this beast. Just a request from a potential buyer. Looking forward to hear more demo’s. Cheers!

@TastyChips 28 күн бұрын

Good point. We'll consider it, and perhaps some buyer with a YT will do it for us. Some of them do amazing work. However, the GR-MEGA is not designed to be a "realistic" time stretcher or autotuner. It's meant to be _transformative_. So, input your natural samples and they may come out scattered (subtly, or totally), or ringy (using spectral mode), or like a paulstretch ambient track. That's what we went for.

@Bouwput 28 күн бұрын

@@TastyChips of course I understand that but if I want to improvise on piano and send it through a Mega I need to have an idea of how this will work out and how far it will go. If I just need weird sounds I program my Hydrasynth. Your device is a ultimate metamorfoses machine between real world sound and outer world noise. This is what I am looking for!

@subradial Ай бұрын

Love my GR-1 and Integral, this is another amazing box of wonders, keep up the great work!

@rickhopkinson Ай бұрын

Ohhh wow! I’m watching this in full tonight!! 😄😎🙏🏻

@sonicultura Ай бұрын

This year will be amazing!! ❤

@Reyescult 27 күн бұрын

Thanks for the excellent overview and demo. The GR-MEGA just jumped to the top of my list!

@CinematicLaboratory Ай бұрын

Absolutely gorgeous masterpiece! But the spectrum display should have been in color so it's easier to identify harmonic content (imho). Super cool to have this on a hardware synth.

@TastyChips Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@yurijogurtsov8710 Ай бұрын

while it's great... masterpieces are usually not just enormous blockbuster artworks (or feature-packed instruments in our case), but those singular, often smaller things which open up some previously unseen perspectives, or challenge the existing ones in the field. what's a single groundbreaking feature here? arguably, GR-Mega turned out to be one of the safest bets in granular playfield - more comparable in its vibe to what workstation keyboards are, not boutique synths... no wonder 'film composers' mentioned) it's very conservative in its approaches to modulation, granularisation, sequencing and additional functions. maybe phase vocoder engine is somewhat novel for a granular hardware (as QuBit Nebulae treats it differently enough), but not in itself. all in all, it's a great (mega) instrument that arrives quite late to the granular field with a vanilla offering - vis a vis things like Tempera, Groc, even the half baked S4 (conceptually), some euro modules (though most are unambitious), and iPad apps (some 10 years old, like Borderlands).. some would also argue it's expensive, but I'd say it's just too huge for what it does so well, really.

@CinematicLaboratory Ай бұрын

@@yurijogurtsov8710 A master piece is a work by someone who mastered his profession to a very high level. I am not talking about Bach or Rembrandt. Spectral synthesis is relatively new (Izotope Iris) and I think it's great to see it on a piece of hardware with full visualization. But I don't like the full color display to be monochromatic while a spectrum is a rainbow. I chose to start with a compliment before sharing what I don't like about the unit. In general, everything before 'but' or 'however' can be ignored.

@yurijogurtsov8710 Ай бұрын

@@CinematicLaboratory you're right, the praise is due, and due first. the GRM is a tour-de-force classic granular synth. now, you're wrong about the notion of a masterpiece. guess both of us can name dozens of works of late and great masters which were considered anything but master pieces. you don't have to be talking 'Bach or Rembrandt', arts went on after the classical period. but that doesn't matter. I just felt it's worthy to criticise a conservative approach to instruments, and the similarly conservative habit of calling good things 'masterpieces'.

@CinematicLaboratory Ай бұрын

@@yurijogurtsov8710 I understand the term should be used more wisely :).

@spacewizardinspace7222 Ай бұрын

Cant wait to get my hands on this gem. Looks amazing.

@drop7vogue Ай бұрын

I was waiting for this!

@jasonmcgary Ай бұрын

Oh I am already feeling the inspiration.my other gear is gonna be jealous when this gets delivered

@XanderEwald Ай бұрын

Sounds beautiful.

@troyjlandry Ай бұрын

Can't wait to get my GR Mega 🥰

@e-conrecords4665 Ай бұрын

This is one serious piece of kit… and I think I need it in my life ♥️

@maydaygoingdown5602 Ай бұрын

You might wanna look at the iridium.

@powermix24 Ай бұрын

I want one! Amazing machine, best granular synth out there

@erlendmagnussen8922 Ай бұрын

Seriously awesome

@Kyle-sq7up Ай бұрын

I cant figure out why I am so broke.

@remka2000 Ай бұрын

I can 😢.

@TheBurdenOfHope Ай бұрын

Bro same. Like I make my money from my job every month but when I sit down at my desk after moving all of my hardware and pedals out of the way to do my budgeting there’s never anything left in my bank balance ❤

@Rightly_Divided Ай бұрын

Well. This is definitely on my list of must haves

@Krushtaar Ай бұрын

geweldig 😮

@DUNGEONMUSICTHEATRE 29 күн бұрын

i want this so much!

@remka2000 Ай бұрын

It's lovely to see that many hardware granular synths options these days. Would love to see a showdown between this, the GR-1, 1010 lemondrop, Tempera, Microgranny, Texture Lab, and maybe some modular stuff. And how people ctually use these, and it which context (yeah pads of course, and soundscape/ambient but what else?). This one is probably the last boss of them all 😮

@Eli_B3000 Ай бұрын

I have almost all of those, some good, some eh. The GR-1 sounds the best, Lemondrop second and portable. I'm waiting on a Tempera, so I'm hoping that combines a lot of features I'd rather have in most cases. The GR Mega looks really cool but it's massive. I don't think I have room for a box that big. That spectral sweep is insane though, almost worth it just to do that with the slider.

@remka2000 Ай бұрын

@@Eli_B3000 I only have the Lemondrop, which is a heap of fun, not *that* expensive, but I still don't really like the USB power which can easily get noisy AF. Want the GR-1 but cannot really justify its cost in my current budget... The more options, the better!

@yurijogurtsov8710 Ай бұрын

one can watch the existing reviews and get the impression of the showdown proposed. there's quite a few more h/w then the ones you listed, even before we turn to eurocrack. but there's no boss, the top ones are all different, the lesser ones are all limited. and each can be used and abused so differently by different players...

@gerjankonings2882 Ай бұрын

Intimidating

@jarord Ай бұрын

Spectral mode 🤯😎

@CaptainCoffee-III Ай бұрын

🤓 I know what my next purchase is.. wow.

@safecall1717 Ай бұрын

looks killer for darkpsy / hitech / psytrance apart from the ambiental vibes

@bennethos 15 күн бұрын

Preordered one ! Coolest thing I’ve seen in years. Even an hdmi output ❤. I had one question, can I map samples on specific notes with specific granular settings etc that I could then trigger randomly from ableton to create ambient glitch randomized soundscape ?

@TastyChips 15 күн бұрын

Thanks! You can use slice mode + MPE + the mod matrix to do that. You can also use multitimbral with MIDI channel mapping.

@Illuminihilation Ай бұрын

I'm still a year or so off from a granular synth purchase so am looking forward to the Mega Tempera, followed by the ULTRAMEGA GR, followed by....

@Illuminihilation Ай бұрын

Jokes aside, this thing looks rad, and pushed the Tempera back down to second place on my shopping list/power ranking.

@yurijogurtsov8710 Ай бұрын

@@Illuminihilation tempera+groc combo slays GRMega while leaving you some money for iPad - and even these 3 together eat less space ;)

@juliangutjahr6066 29 күн бұрын

Wow, amazing device! How does the pitchshifting work? Does it just slow down or speed up the samples similar to the Logic Sampler algorithm or is it a more complex one like the Izotope Iris Radius RT?

@TastyChips 29 күн бұрын

Good question. There are two ways in which the GR-MEGA can do this: spectral, or granular. I'm not familiar with the Logic Sampler algorithm, but I can say this: the GR-MEGA is not intended to time stretch vocals. It can stretch drumloops, but granular stretching causes the typical granular scattering sound. Spectral mode is more smooth, but has "ringing". Izotope's stuff is probably more cleaner... but also, our stretches are all real-time, and polyphonic.

@VEsound Ай бұрын

Hello @Tasty Chips, Do you confirm us the live sampling can use any of the 5 granular engines? And if we use the live sampling feature, is it possible to hear the external input as loops synced to the MIDI clock? I'm thinking about using the GR-Mega with other hardware gear and send the sound of one of this gear (let's say a synth for example), live sample it on the GR-Mega but adding the sound of this synth as loops synced the MIDI clock of all gear connected via MIDI including the GR-Mega and an external sequencer like an Elektron Syntakt for example. The loops I'm thinking about work this way: playing a few notes while recording them on the GR-Mega, the GR-Mega stopping the recording automatically after x bars (and not a precise number of seconds or minutes like you say on the video) and playing the sound recorded automatically after these x bars like Ableton Live works with audio clips when we record audio on the clip view you know. And if this automatic play is possible, that would be on this recorded sound (of the first few notes played on the synth) that would receive the granular treatment of the GR-Mega of course. And after a while, replacing this recorded loop being "granulized" by a new chord on the synth still stopping the recording automatically after x bars, playing this recorded synth chord directly and being able to "granulize" it instantly. Hope this long explanation is clear enough to have your answers (2 questions).

@TastyChips Ай бұрын

Yes, live sampling can be done in any of the 5 engines I don't know what you mean with "external input as loops". Do you perhaps mean that the _recorded_ audio can be looped using MIDI clock? Yes, it can in 4 of the engines. Sampler mode does not "scan" in the same way as the others. Well, yes, you can record audio from other gear live into the sample buffer and process that in real time, Dry/Wet mix it, and apply MIDI sync to many parameters. But you _cannot_ do synced loops off the _incoming_ sound.. Only of sounds that are already in a buffer. However, you can finetune your buffer size to effectively _be_ the loop. The MEGA cannot stop audio recording after a number of bars, unless you make the MIDI device send a REC STOP CC. We can try to add such a feature in 1.1 or 1.2. I unfortunately do not understand the request in the last paragraph... Could you perhaps elaborate with some concrete examples? Maybe there are some KZfaq videos you can link?

@smartti1970 28 күн бұрын

Fantastic... these are genious creators ! ... fantastic times they could do a hardware module independently. Imagin if Dr.Chowing creator of FM could have done this without having to go through a majour brand........... Ps: does it have parmetric eq per layer ? because granular sounds are so rich in frequency content, when you start layering you need to make some sounds thinner. You would need 4 parametric plus high pass and low pass if possible.

@smartti1970 28 күн бұрын

Ps: how many multi-samples can you put on per note ?

@TastyChips 28 күн бұрын

Thanks. The large reverb effect in the chain has an EQ. You typically put it at the end of the chain, so that means you effectively have an EQ per layer yes.

@TastyChips 28 күн бұрын

@@smartti1970 Just one. We don't want to be Kontakt or Hauptwerk.

@tokeflyvholm 24 күн бұрын

Hi, a few questions: Can the multilayers be different types simultaneously? So for example: Layer one - tape mode, layer two - Granular, layer three Spectral, layer four - sampler? And can you use the looping buffer in more than one layer simultaneously and / or live sample on one layer and then shift to a new layer and live sample there, so that you could use it as a four track granular looper? Lastly, Thanks, it looks amazing!

@TastyChips 24 күн бұрын

Hi! Yes, each layer can have a different sound engine. Your example will work. You can have different loops in all layers, but you can only record from 1 source. Cheers!

@yodamandala Ай бұрын

wow

@kisho2679 Ай бұрын

Is it suitable for live sampling/looping and sample manglimg/remixing in an improvisation perfprmamce??

@TastyChips Ай бұрын

Certainly. It has built-in audio inputs. Take a look at the top right: 3 knobs that are intended especially for using it as a granular effect: input level, dry/wet, master volume. You can use all the other knobs at the same time, and/or automate them.

@yurijogurtsov8710 Ай бұрын

I guess it depends on what you want from a sampler, a looper and 'remixing'? the live granular effect was shown in the video. but it seems there's no traditional looper functionality here

@TastyChips Ай бұрын

@@yurijogurtsov8710 No problem. You can sync the Scan knob and have it scanning a loop of your choosing.

@pauldolman7487 Ай бұрын

Please make it a vesa mount?

@TastyChips Ай бұрын

Hmm, VESA mounting becoming popular.. We'll look into it, if enough people chime in.

@troyjlandry Ай бұрын

@@TastyChips yes please 🙏

@NikoNoxious 15 күн бұрын

seconded!

@troyjlandry Ай бұрын

Loopop? Are you watching? Lol

@microfx Ай бұрын

I have to say... this UI brings the worst out of the UX from a DAW VST. My suggestion for a next hardware design: Use more button combos for building muscle memory and not rely on the UI too much. I own the previous GR-1 and I hope to see some UI/UX improvements

@TastyChips Ай бұрын

There are button combos for a lot of things, such as entering the menu tabs (menu button + 1..8), or adding mod destinations (hold button + turn knob). We're adding more combos as we go on. Do you specifically mean "not relying on the GUI too much" instead of "not relying on the UI too much"? We did listen to what GR-1 users said. The most common things were: more contrast in the GUI, and better file management. The GR-MEGA has so many physical buttons (what we like to call the _physical_ UI), because the most used features should be up front. That's now the case. You actually don't need to dive into menus that much. The big exception is doing a lot of modulations in your patch.

@microfx Ай бұрын

@@TastyChips yeah the big problem is with not having only endless or motorized faders/pots that you always hit the wall... like I change the patch and none of the pots show the right value. Mod matrix is something I would make 100% with a combo... (like in most VSTs possible) ... so press LFO1 Button and then turn any other knob to link those.

@TastyChips 15 күн бұрын

@@microfx The first use case. Yes, the pot thing is real. But varies per user. We have both Feel functionality and Pickups implemented. Which makes it almost as quick. And yes. You can hold down [LFO Select] + turn any knob and it gets assigned to the mod matrix. Standard hardware synth feature.