Slice: Granular Looper Effect Plugin by Lese

Slice runs up to nine simultaneous loopers, each with its own adjustable settings for real-time granular processing. The loopers draw from a common audio buffer that can be frozen and resized on the fly, which makes it possible to keep a passage sounding while you reshape it.

Control is handled in two ways. The main method, called Petal, influences several loopers at once for loose, performance-oriented changes. For more direct control, an alternate XY pad sets the position and spread of the loopers, which lets Slice work like a more traditional granulator.

Slice can split its loopers into separate segments of the audible spectrum using a filterbank. Choosing Split mode on the interface gives direct access to this multiband processing.

Slice also detects transients in the incoming audio in real time and marks them in the buffer. Loopers can snap their positions to these transient points. The sensitivity of the internal transient detector is adjustable as a processing parameter, so you can control how many transients are marked.