NanoBeast: Granular Effects Plugin by W. A. Production

The core of NanoBeast is its granular engine. Grains can be synced to tempo, from 1/64 notes upward, and the fade setting shapes how each grain starts and ends, from sharp, transient-heavy rhythms to softer, washed-out clouds. A real-time slicing display shows the grains as they are rebuilt, which makes it easier to see what the settings are doing.

The Morph control offers three playback modes. Sidechain lets you morph between two sources by progressively swapping grains. Input processes your own audio with the effects in front. Mute produces stuttered, gate-like patterns that break apart over time.

The A and B effect slots offer Crush for bit-crushing, Space for reverb and Flow for tape-style modulation, alongside high-pass and low-pass filters for shaping the output.

The Grain FX section works on the grains themselves. Drops creates random dropouts for irregular rhythmic patterns, Stereo Spread places grains across the stereo field, and Pitch Shift and Scatter add random pitch and timing variation.