GranSample - Granular Sampler

Record anything. Sculpt it grain by grain. Chain patterns into songs. Pro is $3.99 through Oct 31 — it returns to $5.99 after. One-time, no subscription.

A 16-pad sampler with a granular engine underneath. Standalone app + AUv3 plugin for GarageBand / Logic / AUM / Drambo / Loopy Pro. Tap pads, sculpt textures, sequence patterns, chain songs. Same instrument either way.

Free to try. One purchase unlocks GranSample Pro — everything listed at the bottom. No subscription, no ads, no telemetry.

NEW IN 1.4.3

Eight free pads, not four — drums and melody, enough to finish a track. Load your own samples inside the AUv3 plugin; app and plugin now share one library. Switch a pad to granular and watch the grain cloud fire, live.

PATTERN BANK & SONG MODE

Eight patterns per project (A–H). Switch live — the change waits for the bar end so the groove never stumbles. Then chain them into a song: tap letters to build, set repeats per section, loop or play once (song mode is Pro). Patterns, song and BPM save with the project.

MODULATION MATRIX (PRO)

LFO + ADSR envelope on 8 destinations per pad: grain position / size / pitch / density, volume, pan, pitch, playback start. Drag the envelope chart, set depth per lane — host-automatable in AUv3.

SAMPLE CHOP (PRO)

Slice any sample across the pads — equal grid, transient detection, or manual markers you drag. Audition before you commit; the grid shows where every slice lands.

KIT SHARING

Export any kit as a single .gskit file — samples, settings, effects, patterns. Send it anywhere. Importing is free for everyone; exporting is Pro.

PAD NAMES & COLORS

Name your pads, pick from 8 colors.

AUv3 PLUGIN

Load "nono.today: GranSample" under AU Instruments in any AUv3 host. Same 4×4 grid, same Kits, same engine. 900 host-automatable parameters. Load your own samples without leaving the host. Sequencer locks to host transport; everything persists in the host project.

LIBRARY

Factory Kits + your Projects in one place — load, tweak, save, share as .gskit.

GRANULAR ENGINE

Eight knobs per pad. Position scans the sample; grain size + density set the texture from pebbles to glass. Pitch + jitter, spray + stereo spread, four window shapes, an ADSR cloud envelope, Freeze for infinite sustain. 128 grains per voice — and you can watch them fire.

CHROMATIC MODE

Any pad becomes the root; the grid plays chromatically.

STEP SEQUENCER

Per-pad patterns at 16/32/64 steps, per-step velocity, drag-to-paint. Standalone runs its own clock; AUv3 syncs to host transport.

SAMPLE EDITOR

Waveform view — drag the grain region, trim playback range, loop, reverse, normalize per pad. LINEAR or GRAN preview. Works inside the plugin too.

EFFECTS

Per-pad AND master bus. Reverb, Delay, Distortion, EQ, Compressor, Chorus, Filter — up to 8 per chain, automatable from any DAW. Hand-tuned presets; save your own. EQ + Filter draw their curves live.

IPAD

Pads bigger than a hardware MPC; recorder, properties and sequencer get their own right column.

MIDI

USB, Bluetooth (built-in browser), or virtual MIDI. MIDI Learn on every knob standalone, per-pad channel routing. The plugin routes MIDI in through the host and emits MIDI out for pad taps.

RECORDING

60 seconds from the mic straight into a pad with a live waveform. Master bounces to WAV/M4A (Pro).

10 FACTORY KITS, 16 SAMPLES

Late Night Room, Outer Space, Neon City, Midnight Dub, Tape Machine, Crystal Cave, and more — each with bespoke granular settings.

FREE TIER

Pads 1–8 — drums and melody, enough to finish a track — with the full granular engine, effects, pattern bank, mixer, MIDI in/out. Same in standalone and AUv3. Kit import (.gskit) is free too.

GRANSAMPLE PRO — ONE PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION

All 16 pads unlocked everywhere — standalone AND AUv3 plugin Song mode — chain patterns into an arrangement Modulation matrix — LFO + envelope on 8 destinations per pad Sample chop to pads Kit export (.gskit) Per-pad ADSR envelope editor Custom backgrounds — wallpapers or your own photo, with dim and pad-opacity WAV / M4A export

Made by one person who wanted a granular beat pad that fit on a phone — and in their DAW.