The technical sheet.
Everything under the hood, at a glance.
- Platform
- iPhone & iPad
- iOS
- 16.0 and later
- Price
- Free · in-app upgrade to GranSample Pro
- Pad grid
- 16 pads (4×4) · pads 1–8 free, 9–16 (Pro)
- Engines
- Linear & Granular, toggle per pad
- Grain pool
- 128 grains per pad · up to 48 sounding at once per pad, shared out when several granular pads play together
- Grain window shapes
- Hanning · Gaussian · Triangle · Trapezoid
- Granular controls
- Position · Size · Density · Pitch · Pitch Jitter · Spray · Stereo Spread · Freeze · Reverse · ADSR cloud envelope
- Grain display
- Live grain cloud on the home display — read position, stereo placement, length, window fade
- Musical Granular
- Scale lock · per-grain jitter · grain trigger probability (Pro)
- Effects
- 7 types (EQ, Compressor, Reverb, Delay, Distortion, Chorus, Filter) · up to 8 per chain · one chain per pad plus a master bus chain · reorderable
- Modulation
- Per-pad LFO + ADSR envelope · 8 destinations each · 6 LFO waveforms · host-sync (Pro)
- Sample chop
- Equal · Transient-aligned · Manual markers · slice across pads (Pro)
- Step sequencer
- 16 / 32 / 64 steps · per-step velocity · swing from 50% (straight) to 75% · host transport sync in AUv3
- Choke groups
- Off or 1–8 per pad · from the sequencer, MIDI and your fingers
- Pattern bank
- 8 patterns per project (A–H) · bar-quantized live switching
- Song mode
- Chain patterns into an arrangement · per-section repeats · loop or play once (Pro)
- Recorder
- Built-in mic · up to 60 s · Scale Lock (12 roots × 6 scales)
- Resample
- Record GranSample's own output onto a pad · exactly 1, 2, 4 or 8 bars with the sequencer playing · standalone app (Pro)
- Sample import
- WAV · AIFF · M4A · MP3 · in the app and inside the plugin
- Sample library
- Shared between the app and the AUv3 plugin
- Kit sharing
- .gskit bundles — samples, settings, effects, patterns · import free, export (Pro)
- Factory content
- 10 factory Kits · 16 samples
- Export
- WAV (Pro)
- AUv3 plugin
- Yes · Sound, Grain and Sequence editor tabs · 900 host-automatable parameters · in-plugin sample loading · host transport sync · in-extension MIDI Settings
- MIDI input
- USB · Bluetooth · virtual destination · velocity-sensitive · per-pad note mapping · pitch bend · Chromatic mode
- MIDI Learn
- Any CC to any on-screen knob (standalone) · plugin MIDI out for pad taps
- Custom backgrounds
- Wallpapers or your own photo · dim and pad-opacity (Pro)
- Language
- English
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