Year/Release Date : October 19, 2025
Version : 1.0.0
Developer : Sound Particles
Developer’s Website : https://soundparticles.com/products/graindust/overview
Format : VSTi3
Bit depth : 64bit
Tablet : cured
System requirements : Windows 10+
Description : GrainDust is a powerful granular synthesizer with 4 fully independent granular layers, giving you the freedom to create rich and evolving textures. Each grain can move, shift, and breathe, creating results that feel alive and truly three-dimensional. Comes with an exclusive library of unique sounds, giving your music and sound design a signature character from the very first note.
Features :
Presets
+250 Presets and sub-presets
MPE Compatible presets
Random preset generator – cubes for happy accidents
Granular Engine
4 independent granular
layers + 1200 samples Multi-format sample loader
– WAV, AIFF, AIF, FLAC, OGG
Polyphonic synthesizer
+ 15 LFO waveforms
+ 70 LFO waveform modifiers
Multiple EGs – ADSR, AR, ADR, ADDSR, AHDSR, DAHDSR, RR
Arpeggiator
Arpeggiator + Sequencer
Step keyboards
Polyphonic sequencer up to 128 steps
Sequence parameters
7 arpeggiator modes
Scale snap
Filters
6 filters – low pass, high pass, band pass, peak, low shelf, high shelf
filters, granular filters, engine keyboard + speed display
Pitch
Pitch EG + LFO
Random behavior
Effects/Mixing
10 effects – delay, bit crush, distortion, equalizer, reverb, flanger, vibrato, chorus, phaser, filter mixer dry/wet
Matrix
Filter by (source/destination)
Curve Editor
Extra
8 Extra EG
8 Extra LFO
Spatial
Sequencer
Spatial Envelope Generators (EG)
Spatial Low Frequency Generators (LFO)
Independent Granular Engines Motion
Modifiers Speaker Dedicated Panorama 3D Views Personalized Binaurals – SOFA
Output Formats
Mono support
Stereo support: stereo, stereo (VBAP), stereo (MS), stereo (XY), stereo (Blumlein)
Binaural support (3D sound through headphones)
Ambisonics support up to 6th order
Multichannel
support Mono
support Stereo support: stereo, stereo (VBAP), stereo (MS), stereo (XY), stereo (Blumlein)
Binaural support (3D sound through headphones)
Ambisonics support up to 6th order
Multichannel support: LRC, LRCS, Quad, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1, 7.1 (SDDS), 9.0, 9.1, 5.0.2, 5.1.2, 7.0.2, 7.1.2, 9.1.2, 5.0.4, 5.1.4, 7.0.4, 7.1.4, 9.0.4, 9.1.4, 7.0.6, 7.1.6, 9.0.6, 9.1.6, 9.0.8, 9.1.8, 11.1.8, Auro 11.1, Auro 13.1, IMAX 12.0, NHK 22.2, Sony 360 RA
TCD :
Sound.Particles.GrainDust.v1.0.0.Repack-TCD
x64: VST3
Just install.
Do not try to test in Blue Cat’s Patchwork
as per an incompatibility per manufacturer. It will just hang
and do nothing else in this host.
https://soundparticles.com/products/graindust/overview
Rock on and enjoy!
-TCD
AAX is not included as even untouched, it does not
show up in Pro Tools v12.5
Repack purpose: Disable any expiration causing the
plugin to not load presets well or make sound.
Tested well now.
