[sdiy] What's Granular Synthesis?

[Nils Pipenbrinck]

>  "Granular Synthesis combines grains of sound into sound masses.
> Each grain is typically a very short-duration sound event comprised
> of a frequency, duration, amplitude, starting time, and an envelope.
> Sound masses are created by the combination of potentially
> thousands of sound grains to form musical compositions."


Hm.. So if it understood it correctly it's "just" a modern form of wavetable
synthesis.. invented to get rid of all the shortcommings of traditional
wavetable sounds (read: aliasing, loss of harmonics, boring sounds ect).

Sounds like a interesting thing.. I would really like to hear a couple of
samples..  (If anyone has such a gear and want's to mail me some, he's
welcome :)

Thanks for all the answers,
    Nils