GR-Mega Granular Workstation Black – Preorder Downpayment

605.00

The GR-MEGA is a granular hardware synthesizer, sampler, effect, sequencer, and spectral time stretcher. It is a sound design powerhouse, our top model, and the culmination of the journey we started 8 years ago with the GR-1: the world’s first real granular hardware synth. Read more below.

The total price is €1500,- (ex VAT.)
€500,- is only the down payment (1/3rd of total price).

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Description

The GR-MEGA is a sound designer’s dream, offering near limitless possibilities to record and manipulate samples, even in real-time, all supported by a hands-on interface that gives you instant access to complex modulation, slicing and dicing, sequencing and effects.

The GR-MEGA is a sample-based device. Record audio with the built-in high quality inputs, and you are now ready to granulate all your source samples into countless variations. Anything is possible, ranging from subtle changes that still represent the original sample to a completely mangled and scattered manipulation of the original. Imagine what it would sound like if you hear thousands of little sound particles (grains) swarming around to reconstruct any sample you present it. Depending on what source sample you want to use, results can be lovely, soft, and soothing but also chaotic, aggressive and unpredictable and everything in between.

The GR-MEGA is 4 layer multitimbral, and massively polyphonic, and has a wide choice of engines ranging from a traditional sampler with slicing, to a spectral phase vocoder, and of course granular. It’s capable of 128 grains per voice, which can add up to a total of 5000 grains simultaneously. Playing rich chords to create granular harmonic clouds is an easy task. Hook up your (USB or DIN) MIDI keyboards and you are ready to go.. Or just use the on-board chord sequencer.

The GR-MEGA offers hands-on high quality controls for nearly everything it offers, a dimmable 7″ scratch proof display, fast and large internal sample storage, and a wide range of interfacing possibilities like high quality audio inputs, DIN MIDI IN, OUT, and THRU, easy access to USB sticks and drives, and of course direct USB C connection to your DAW for MIDI.

The full GR-MEGA specification sheet:

Feature Spec Remark
General
Multitimbrality 4 layers
Polyphony per layer 20 voices
Total number of grains 5000 all layers combined, about 4 times as much as the gr-1
Engines Sampler (including loop, start end)
Granular
Tape mode
Granular slice mode Sampler slice mode possible
Spectral
Preset system
Number of presets 128 per project
Multitimbral combinations 128 per project
Number of projects 50
Sampling and samples
Audio input 2 channels (stereo)
Max sample length 60 minutes 3 minutes max in granular, because of polyphony
Sample rate 48 kHz
Mix resolution 32 floating point
Sample channels mono or stereo
Granular engine
Max chord size 12
Max grains per voice 128
Rate modes Free, Sync-size, Scan & rate Free means independent rate and grain size, other modes have synchronized rate and size options
Loop modes Bounce, wrap, kill
Arp modes Up, down, random, shuffle, play order, and more
Spawn modes Direct, gradual, recycle
Phase vocoder
Max polyphony 3
FFT size 256..8192
Chord mode up to 12 notes per voice
Mod matrix
Number of LFOs 4 4 per layer
Number of modulation sources 20
Number of modulation destinations 100 and growing
Number of step sequencer modulators 4
Filters
Filters per voice LPF and HPF
Slope 12 dB per octave Other slopes possible in future firmware
Envelopes
Destinations Pitch
Filter
Amplitude
Aux Freely assignable
Length 0.1 ms .. 45 s per stage
Stages ADSR
Shape Curved: from log to linear to exponential
FX
Number of simultaneous fx 4
Effects Delays Plain, and ping pong
Reverbs Hall and large (algorithmic)
Distortion Overdrive, and reducer
Dynamics (compressor)
More effects possible in future firmware
Step sequencer
Max chord size 7
Max steps 64
Step sequencers per patch 1 In multitimbral mode you’ll get up to 4 step sequencers total
Connectivity
Analog audio output Stereo TRS 1/4 ” balanced 110 dB SNR
Analog audio input Stereo TRS 1/4 ” balanced 110 dB SNR
Headphone 1/8 “
MIDI DIN (in out thru), USB C (in and out)
Eurorack interface 1x gate out, 2x CV in (-5V..+5V)
LAN (ethernet) Gigabit (firmware update & filesharing)
Disk / USB sticks USB A 3.0
Computer keyboard USB A 2.0
HDMI output (monitor or beamer) 1.2 full size
Storage
Included USB stick 32GB, USB3, up to 100 MB/s
Internal storage 512GB, 300 MB/s
Dimensions 495x270x95 mm WxDxH, including side panels
Weight ~4 kg