MacPOD/WinPOD reprises the original MacPOD, first released in 1998 (and recipient of a Bourges Festival award).
Features:
Ultra-long time-stretching and freezing;
Pitch-shifting, independent of tempo;
32 voice real-time granulation of sampled sound creates expansive textures from speech sounds, sound objects or other recordings;
Auto-stretch preserves transients;
Equalizer and resonator section;
MacPOD is named in honour of the original POD GSAMX system developed by Barry Truax at Simon Fraser University.
© 2009 C. Rolfe.
System Requirements:
Mac OS X (10.4 or higher; G5 or faster recommended);
or,
Windows XP or Vista.
[1] If you have problems mounting the MacPOD.dmg disk image, you can download a plain zip file:
Granular synthesis
MacPOD/WinPOD uses granular synthesis of audio files to generate a wide range of effects from time compression/expansion to richly varied spectral transformations.
Version History
09.06.15 - Version 2.0 (Intel) release .
09.09.14 - Version 2.0.1 (Universal) release.
Extended MIDI Implementation.
Added support for recording to different word-sizes (16-bit, 24-bit, etc.)
09.09.22 - Version 2.0.2
Fixed bug loading 24-bit/96kHz files.
09.09.26 - Version 2.0.3
Fixed registration on PPC.
Windows BETA release.
09.11.10 - Version 2.0.4
Windows stable release.
Added pitch shifting and pitch range.
Added pause function.
Added support for granulation of stereo files.
09.11.20 - Fixed auto-stretch on PPC (build 0004).
