What it is and what it was built for
Clouds is a Eurorack granular audio processor built for real-time, reactive sound transformation—not playback, not composition, not recording. It treats incoming audio as raw material for instantaneous textural metamorphosis.
How it works, in terms a player would use
Clouds records incoming audio into a short, variable buffer—up to 8 seconds at lowest quality—and granularizes it in real time. You freeze the buffer to lock a sonic space. Grains play continuously or on trigger. You adjust grain position, size, pitch, density, timing distribution, and envelope shape. A diffuser blurs transients using all-pass filters. Dry/wet blend, feedback, and reverb-like effects activate only in freeze mode.
What it does better than anything else
It transforms live modular audio into dense, evolving clouds of overlapping grains more responsively than any other Eurorack granular processor. Its freeze-and-sculpt workflow gives immediate, physical control over sonic space—no loading, no menus, no latency between gesture and result.
What it does badly
It does not store or recall samples. It cannot process audio without continuous input. It offers no waveform display, no editing of grain start points or spectral content, and no quantisation or sync to external clock. The buffer is ephemeral and unsaveable.
What people made with it
People made immersive ambient textures, glitching vocal abstractions, smeared guitar swells, and shifting stereo fields—all by feeding live sources (synths, mics, drum machines) into Clouds and manipulating its controls in performance.
Who should use it, and who should not
Modular players who treat audio as clay, not data. Those who value immediacy over precision, texture over tone, and gesture over grid. Not for producers needing recall, editors needing scrubbing, or performers needing rigid timing.
Is it worth your time
Yes—if you need live, tactile granular texture generation from modular sources. No—if you want sample playback, precise editing, or offline processing. It demands engagement, not auditioning.