# Exploring granular synthesis
**URL:** https://forum.toplap.org/t/exploring-granular-synthesis/2097
**Category:** Making Liveness
**Created:** [22 October 2022 08:20 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/exploring-granular-synthesis/2097 "2022-10-22T08:20:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sdclibbery](https://forum.toplap.org/u/sdclibbery)
#### Post date: [22 October 2022 08:20 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/exploring-granular-synthesis/2097/1 "2022-10-22T08:20:13Z")
Hiya, this was fun to do and I thought it might be interesting. Using only a standard sample player with very short duration playback events and carefully set start times, it鈥檚 possible to do a form of granular synthesis:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4dzyl-i93c)
The video includes a brief musical demo at the start, followed by a demonstration of turning normal sample playback into granular synthesis 馃檪
Source code from the video is here: [limut/examples.txt at 04225eff3cea0218699bd91a333fdbe3ff5eed23 路 sdclibbery/limut 路 GitHub](https://github.com/sdclibbery/limut/blob/04225eff3cea0218699bd91a333fdbe3ff5eed23/examples.txt#L2326)
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### Author:  [@HighHarmonics](https://forum.toplap.org/u/HighHarmonics)
#### Post date: [5 December 2022 20:14 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/exploring-granular-synthesis/2097/2 "2022-12-05T20:14:31Z")
Nice! I like how you decomposed a short spoken phrase. Also appreciate that you provided links to the source code. But it wasn鈥檛 clear what live coding environment you are using. Is it limut?
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### Author:  [@sdclibbery](https://forum.toplap.org/u/sdclibbery)
#### Post date: [6 December 2022 08:33 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/exploring-granular-synthesis/2097/3 "2022-12-06T08:33:17Z")
Thanks; yes it鈥檚 Limut, sorry, I should have said!
BTW, the source code needed a minor update as there was a breaking change to some of the Limut syntax used in the visuals; the latest source code is here: [limut/examples.txt at master 路 sdclibbery/limut 路 GitHub](https://github.com/sdclibbery/limut/blob/master/examples.txt#L2334-L2340)
Incidentally, I also made a dark ambient track using the same granular synthesis technique (and a wikimedia choral sample) that came out quite well: [Breathe Soft - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiTEPXwkrh4&t=116s) . The source for that is here: [limut/examples.txt at master 路 sdclibbery/limut 路 GitHub](https://github.com/sdclibbery/limut/blob/master/examples.txt#L2452-L2463) 馃檪
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### Author:  [@HighHarmonics](https://forum.toplap.org/u/HighHarmonics)
#### Post date: [6 December 2022 17:51 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/exploring-granular-synthesis/2097/4 "2022-12-06T17:51:03Z")
Thanks. I haven鈥檛 heard of Limut. Have you thought about getting it added to the Toplap list of livecoding languages?
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Breathe Soft is cool - atonal ambient. Nice.
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### Author:  [@sdclibbery](https://forum.toplap.org/u/sdclibbery)
#### Post date: [7 December 2022 08:50 UTC](https://forum.toplap.org/t/exploring-granular-synthesis/2097/5 "2022-12-07T08:50:40Z")
Thanks, I鈥檝e raised a PR to add it to the list 馃檪