Its not entirely free (although the shareware is functional enough to be
cool), or a classic granular, but try crusher X (www.crusher-x.de, I THINK).
It's a vaporsynth, which is a granular synth with knobs on.
It essentially takes live, internally sampled or internal fm oscillator
input, and runs it into a buffer. It then generates grains from this, varying
their playback delay, length, pause, speed and direction, filter cutoff and
resonance, volume and panning each from a seperate modulator or two. The
modulations can also be 'spread out' across the grains being produced. All of
the depths and speeds of these modulations can be externally controlled. It
also supports the use of force feedback joysticks, and various stuff that I
don't entirely understand.
The result of all this is noises that sound either EP7 ish or glitchbient, or
various other things that I have yet to find.
Two catches: it eats processor (I can JUST run it on a p400), and costs $50.
Still, try it.
david
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