Angels
Sound You Couldn't Have Made on Purpose
Angels turns audio into something else entirely. Feed it a vocal, a synth, a field recording – whatever you have – and it scatters the sound into dozens of grains, each one pitched, stretched, and scattered across time. What comes out is texture. Living, breathing, impossible to predict.
I sold all my Eurorack (a good decision for my wallet). But it's been painful not having Beads. It was such a core part of how I make music that I had to build something to bring that magic into my DAW, with a few ideas of my own. Tempo sync that locks grains to your beat. A tape mode with wow, flutter, and drive that makes everything sound like it's been sitting in a shoebox since the early 70s. 60+ scales for pitch quantization. Dual reverbs – one before the granular engine, one after. A randomization system that remembers its accidents. Angels makes sounds you simply couldn't have made on purpose.
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40 Grains of Chaos
Up to 40 simultaneous grains, each with its own position, size, and pitch. Dense clouds or sparse textures – dial in the density and let the engine scatter your audio across time.
Controlled Randomness
Marbles-style Deja Vu system. Dial in how unpredictable vs how locked the randomness is. At noon, it loops. Turn left for pure chaos. Turn right to shuffle the sequence. The plugin remembers its happy accidents.
Dual Reverbs
Preverb smears the input before it hits the granular engine – soft attacks, blurred transients. Postverb adds space to whatever emerges. Stack them for textures that float in from nowhere.
60+ Scales
Pitch quantization across Western modes, Japanese scales, Indian ragas, Middle Eastern maqamat, and more. Bloom control unlocks notes progressively – from just the root, to thirds and fifths, to the full scale.
Tape Mode
Wow, flutter, drive, and hiss. Dial in the wobble of an old cassette, the saturation of a worn head, the gentle drift of tape that's been played too many times. Makes everything sound like it's been sitting in a shoebox since the early 70s.
Tempo-Locked Textures
Sync grain timing to your DAW's tempo. Rhythmic granular textures that pulse with your track. Essential for anything with a beat.
Technical Specifications
Granular Engine
Max grains40 simultaneous
Buffer length8, 16, or 32 seconds
Pitch range-24 to +24 semitones
Freeze modeCapture and hold buffer
Randomization
Global controlsSpread, Bias, Deja Vu, Smoothness
Per-parameterPosition, Size, Pitch, Texture, Density
Loop length1-16 steps
PolarityBipolar, Positive, Negative
Effects
PreverbPre-granular smear
PostverbOutput reverb
Tape modeWow, Flutter, Drive, Hiss
Feedback0-100%
Pitch Quantization
Scales60+ across 15 categories
CategoriesWestern, Pentatonic, Jazz, Symmetrical, Hungarian, Spanish, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Ethiopian, African, Indonesian, Celtic
Bloom controlProgressive note unlock
Formats
Plugin formatsVST3, AU, CLAP
PlatformmacOS, Windows, Linux
Presets9 factory presets
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