Granular Synthesis

Personally im fascinated with granular sounds. This is an ongoing collection of great software I came across (grouped by type, ordered by awesomeness):

Instruments

• Audio Deamage Quanta
• The Mangle (20€)

Granularish Samplers

• Bitwig Sampler (also part of 8- and 16-track!)
• Native Instruments Form
• Glitchmachines Polygon

Effects

• grANALizer (free)
• Hadron (free)
• Output Portal
• Audiority Grainspace
• Ribs (pwyw)

Standalone

• EmissionControl2 (foss)
• Cecilia5 (foss)
• Ribs (pwyw

Untested

I havent tried those yet, so I wont vouch for their awesomeness.

• Soundgrain (foss)
• New Sonics Arts Granite
• Steinberg Padshop
• Sandman
• Granulab (free)
• Soundhack Bubbler (free)
• Fragment Synth (free)
• Quilcom Caster (free)
• Quilcom Harvester (free)
• NDC Fragmental (free)
• Atomiccloud
• Alchemey (sadly aquired by Apple, fuck em)

Also, there is this neat website full of even more stuff. Sadly, iIt feels like its stuck in 2009...