Arturia EFX Fragments - Creative Sound Reshaping Plugin (VST/AU/AAX)

Efx FRAGMENTS is a software effect that allows you to divide, transform, and rebuild any sound by unlocking the power of granular processing. Instantly elevate any project with glitchy stutters, grainy stereo ambience, experimental textures, and beyond.

Features:

• Creative effect plugin based on granular processing
• Features 3 distinct granular modes: Classic, Texture or Rhythmic
• Pitch quantization with 15 different scales
• Grain quantization with transient detection or snap-to-grid modes
• Spatializer section with 9 different trajectory presets
• 2 FX slots with sophisticated routing for unique sound design possibilities
• Advanced modulation section, featuring an envelope follower, 3 function generators and a step sequencer
• Curated 60-preset library for instant access to inspiring tones
• Apple M1 compatibility

Effortlessly transform, instantly inspire
Breathe life, musicality, and character into any sound, and discover inspiring or intricate new textures. From dramatic rhythmic stutter effects to cloudy reverb shimmers, and everything in between. Efx FRAGMENTS takes the complex concept of granular synthesis and makes it more flexible, more accessible, and more musical than ever.

Glitch / stutter
Build tension and sprinkle variety into your beats, compositions, and soundscapes with dramatic stop-start stutters, pitch-shifted fluctuations, and reality-shattering glitches. Slice sounds rhythmically or go totally off-grid for true sonic chaos.

Rhythmic variations
Efx FRAGMENTS listens to the rhythm of your track and can respond in a number of creative ways. Make every grain of sound respond to your tempo for glitchy beats, fractured rhythmic textures, flowing percussive sequences, and more.

Textural enhancement
Whether you want to add sparkling character, or just make something ‘feel’ better in a mix, immediately excite and accentuate any instrument stem, loop, or vocal part with the ethereal sound of granular processing, complete with built-in mix-ready FX.

Beauty or chaos
Whether you want musical or experimental, beautiful or chaotic, Efx FRAGMENTS can make any sound exciting, evocative, and entirely yours. Effortlessly explore and manipulate granular processing with amazing sonic results guaranteed.

Redefining ambient
Go beyond conventional reverb and delay and immerse your mixes in material ambience. Create vast shimmering clouds of sound particles, delicate cave-echo trickles, or fast-flowing spatial movement with any sound source.

Forge new timbres
Turn the smallest transient, the crunchiest sample, or the most unassuming stem into a bowed string, a grainy drum hit, or a mix-enveloping pad. By tightly weaving grains together, Efx FRAGMENTS creates texture and density in the most unexpected ways.

Granular synthesis explained
At its most basic level, granular synthesis involves splitting a sound into parts - ‘grains’ - and using them in creative ways. You can change the size of the grains, the amount of space between them, their pitch, their playback behavior - the list goes on. The resulting sound is both highly recognizable and wholly unique to granular. Frozen timbres from smooth and transparent to sharp and brittle; rainfall delay that drenches any mix; dense clouds of reverberating sonic texture; cascading modulations that turn a short sound into an endless flow. Once you’ve experienced Efx FRAGMENTS’ unique interpretation of granular processing, you’ll never look back.

Parts of a whole
Efx FRAGMENTS breaks the process of granular synthesis down into easy-to-use modules that intuitively interact with each other. By individually tweaking different parts of the granular process, you can explore and experiment with your sound with absolute control and unprecedented detail; here’s how it works.

Buffer
This is where incoming audio passes through to be used as the raw material for Efx FRAGMENTS’ grains, giving you real-time, top-level control over its behavior. See the moving playback and recording points, customize the buffer length, tweak the feedback and wet/dry levels, and freeze the buffer in place for a static slice of sound.

Grain Capture
Here you can explore the many tools that Efx FRAGMENTS uses to capture grains from the buffer, from the Speed controls to the Transient and Snap-To-Grid quantization modes. Make your grain capture respond to hits and swells, introduce ‘sprays’ at random, manually scan what you’ve captured, and more; granular essentials.

Grain Release
At the core of Efx FRAGMENTS’ interface is an array of parameters and responsive options that give you full control over every aspect of the newly-created grains’ behavior, from shape to play direction to density - and far beyond. The Grain Release module is topped off with a dynamic visualizer, providing vivid visual feedback of your sound.

Pan / FX
Navigate the stereo space of your mix in a plethora of curious and exciting ways, from randomized grain panning to tempo-synced movement around a virtual 3D space. For the final end-of-chain touch, run Efx FRAGMENTS’ signal through two FX slots, featuring algorithms like Multi-Filter, Tape Echo, Stereo Flanger, and more.

Advanced controls
In keeping with the rest of our virtual instruments and FX plugins, Efx FRAGMENTS comes armed with a host of dynamic modulation and expression tools. Assign Macros to multiple parameters for real-time sweeping effects, make your grains respond to each beat with a built-in Envelope Follower, create custom functions and step-sequences.