Korn Deluxe: Granular Looper and Sampler Instrument by Cinematique Instruments

In its simplest form, Korn Deluxe works as a one-shot sampler. You set the starting point, root key and playback direction. Using a single grain with no start point variation turns it into a basic looper, with tempo set by the gap/grain length slider. That slider offers three tempo modes: FREE (off), SYN (synced to the host) and AL (random pauses).

Increasing the start point variation and the number of grains, up to five, moves the instrument into cloud and pad territory. Each grain can be pitched and given its own playback direction. Grain envelopes have separate attack, decay and release controls.

Three effects merge the grains into a cloud: a delay, a reverb and a Blur effect, which is a chain of four delays. Chorus, Wow / Flutter and distortion handle sound shaping. Raising the chorus amount causes the grains to stretch at random.

The main page lets you route the mod wheel to almost every parameter. A built-in wavetable synth can add tonal content if the granular output sounds too atonal or lacks certain frequencies.