QuickSand

Note: I'm archiving this repo because I haven't touched it since I was working on it as a capstone project. I make no guarantees about how well it will run, but it's probably still usable.

QuickSand is a live-input granular synthesis VST, built in JUCE.

Note: QuickSand was my first C++ project, and a capstone project for UBC's Applied Music Technology minor. As a result, there are a few rough edges; most notably in terms of performance overhead due to excessive iteration.

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Features

• Dynamically resizable cache
• 16-voice polyphony
• Adjustable grain envelopes
• Adjustable per-voice randomness
• Adjustable grain overlap

Planned features

• BPM synchronization
• Playback while cache is still filling
• Per-voice pitch shifting
• Additional grain shapes
• Phase displacement, to avoid positive feedback
  • Currently solved by guarding the randomness parameter, but using phase would be a cleaner solution
• Multi-channel support