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Navigate by sound, not time
Most granular synths make you scrub through a waveform to find the sound you want. Pixels maps every grain into a 2D space by its sonic qualities, so similar grains end up near each other, and moving the XY pad moves you through sounds, not through seconds.
Pick any two descriptors for the axes. Brightness on X, loudness on Y. Pitch on X, noisiness on Y. Whatever makes sense for the sample you loaded.
Modulate anything, including your location
The shaping controls are deep enough to go from surgical to unhinged, with precise curves and countless sweet spots.
Built for thousands of grains
Pixels runs thousands of long grains without breaking a sweat. Build the cloud you actually want, instead of living in fear of being one grain away from hanging your session.
Three mod envelopes and four LFOs, and they can drive any parameter, including the XY position itself.
Put an LFO on X and drift through brightness while you play.
Put an Envelope on Y and have loudness swell over time.
A granular synth built for harmony
Pixels can quantize every grain in the cloud to a scale. Chromatic, pentatonic, harmonic series, 1st & 5th, octaves, or free.
Load a sample of someone coughing and play pentatonic chords with it.
Make the hiss of a field recording ring like a sitar.