Walrus Audio / Fable Granular Soundscape Generator

To the north, in an undeveloped, high forested area, mysterious treefolk have ruled since prehistoric times. At the first new moon of spring, I heard the "sound" of treefolk nurturing young trees and passing them on to the next generation by grafting fragments of their own branches.

The new generation has inherited the "vitality" of the previous generation.
These "sounds" were both very old and very new. Yes, they were called...The Fable.
The Fable creates a new sonic adventure with five granular delay programs centered around a sample and chop algorithm.
Get ready to explore deep, rich and strangely beautiful textures.

■Controls
Feedback : Controls the amount of gain in the first feedback pass.
Regen (Regeneration): Controls the amount of gain in the second feedback pass.
Mod (Modulation): Controls the amount of modulation applied to the wet signal.
Mix : Controls the amount of wet/dry mix.
x : Controls the grain size (length of the chopped sample) of the granular effect.
time : controls the delay and granular buffer size (length of buffer from which particles are sampled).
tone : Controls the output signal and feedback loop filtering.
Power supply: 9VDC center-minus (adapter only), 300mA minimum
SIZE: 9.3cm(W)×5.8(H)×12.3(D)cm / 395g
Buffered bypass

What is Granular?
Granular is a micro-sampling digital processing technique in which short samples called grains ("grains") are read from a delay buffer.
Fable allows you to adjust these "grains" by manipulating the sampling length, position, and buffer size from which they are read.
They can be played back at double or half speed for pitch shift or time stretch effects, played backwards, or read from multiple locations for a variety of magical effects.

Dual Feedback Paths
Fable employs two analog feedback paths in each program that create a unique mix of effected and original feedback.
The two feedback paths interact and are organically organized to provide a wide range of sound and effect experimentation.

Five Fascinating Programs
FABLE offers five custom programs centered around sample and chop delays.

I. Reverse Delay into Reverse Granular
Program 1 is a reverse delay into which the sampled "grain" is played backwards by the Reverse Granular algorithm.
The feedback paths woven by the "reverse playback" and "re "reverse playback" change the sound image in a complex and organic way.
Decreasing the size of the "grain" (X knob) produces a long, smooth effect of a temporary reverse playback, while increasing the size produces an insane, jam-packed reverse playback effect.

II. Forward Delay into Octave Up Granular
Program 2 gives a forward delay into a granular program on the octave where the "grain" is played back at double speed.
The "swarm" of doubled speed sounds weaves a feedback path into a bright, light waterfall of sound.

III. Analog-Style Delay into Octave Down Granular
Program 3 provides a warm, dark analog-style delay into a granular program down an octave played backwards at half speed.
The decelerated repeats combine with the analog processing to create deep thunderous footsteps and thick, muddy ambience.

IV. Multi-Tap Granular into Multi-Tap Granular (Grain-Verb)
Program 4 consists of two multi-tap granular algorithms that, in turn, play multiple samples from each granular buffer simultaneously.
Multiple points of the sampled sound are made to interact with each other in a feedback path, creating an unusual "cloud" (filter) and a unique, organic reverb.
The time knob controls the time stretch of both granular algorithms in this program, varying the length and tonal character of both granular effects.

V. Forward Delay into Randomized Pitch Granular
Program 5 gives the forward delay to a randomized pitch granular program that plays the sampled sound at double pitch up, half pitch down, normal speed, normal playback at normal speed, and reverse playback at reverse speed.
Since the pitch of the sampled sound is variable each time it is played back, try changing the rate of the randomized pitch modulation with the X knob.