Minimal Audio has released Lucid, a granular effect plugin built for creating vivid textures, harmonies, rhythms, and transformations that stay in key and in time.
Explore over 350 presets across 13 packs, covering everything from harmonic layering and synced rhythms to shimmering spaces and total transformations—each built to get bold, track-ready results fast.
Main features
- Real-time granular engine: Lucid works as an insert on any channel or source, rebuilding the incoming audio grain by grain into deeply musical sounds you couldn’t make any other way.
- Grain scale-lock: Every grain’s pitch is detected and retuned in real time, so you can transpose and modulate freely, always locked to your key.
- Granular timeline sync: Sync time-stretching to your grid, snap to transients, or scrub manually through a captured loop while everything stays locked to your timeline.
- Preset library: Over 350 track-ready presets across 13 purpose-built packs, searchable by tag, each with two macros for instant control.
- Harmonic grain delay: A multi-tap delay with scale-locked pitch shifting for always in-key shimmer effects and arpeggiated spaces.
- Multi-mode grain filter: Every grain gets its own filter with independent modulation and drive for shifting tone and texture no single filter could produce.
- Dynamic grain imager: Spread grains across the stereo field with unique panning patterns for a wide and controlled stereo image generated by the grains themselves.
- Grain chord and arp modes: Stack grains into rich harmonies from any source, or step each grain through your scale for evolving sequences.
- Timeline display: A timeline-locked waveform shows your captured input and where every grain plays, so you always see exactly what Lucid is doing.
- Animator pad: One animated XY pad controls many parameters at once, for organic, evolving movement across your whole patch.
- Grain blur: Blurs each grain to smooth away the digital artifacts of time-stretching and freezing, so even extreme processing stays organic and natural.
- Full effects rack: Eight freely loadable studio-grade effects that extend the granular output, from mix-ready polish to deep creative sound design.
- Deep modulation system: Assign macros, LFOs, curve sequencers, and envelope followers to any parameter by drag-and-drop or the modulation matrix.
Pricing & Availability
Lucid is available for macOS and Windows in VST3, AU and AAX plugin formats for the introductory price of $79 until September 19th (Reg. $129).
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