Lonkero Granular Engine

Our Lonkero Granular Engine chops your sound into hundreds of tiny grains, then stretches and scatters them into shimmering clouds. It goes from a subtle aftertaste to a massive ambient cocktail, and it keeps everything smooth, with a splash of built-in reverb and levels that stay even however dense you go.

One sip and it’s all over you.

Controls

• Mode:
  I – Delay: Lonkero constantly records your playing and plays it back as a cloud of grains around the delay time. It’s a smeared, textured delay that can drift into ambience.
  II – Layers: Lonkero captures up to four notes or chords, each on its own layer, which fade in and out on their own. Build pads and drones under your playing.

• Time: In Delay mode, the delay time, from 50 ms to 2 s. In Layers mode, how slowly each new layer swells in, from 10 ms to 3 s.

• Size: The length of each grain. Short grains sound glitchy and granular; long grains smooth out into washes.

• Overlap: How many grains play at once, from 1 to 30. Low settings give sparse, stuttering fragments; high settings give a thick, dense cloud.

• Regen: In Delay mode, the feedback: how long the echoes keep coming back. In Layers mode, how long each layer takes to fade away. At 10, layers hold forever.

• Pitch: Shifts the grains in musical steps: octaves, fifths and fourths, from an octave down to two octaves up. The grains speed up or slow down to change pitch, which gives a shimmery, organic pitch rather than a clean harmonizer. Use +12 for shimmer and −12 for a dark undertow.

• Reverse: Plays every grain backwards, for swelling, reverse-tape textures.

• Tone: Works like a guitar tone knob. At 10 it’s fully open, and turning it down darkens only the effect. Your dry signal is never filtered.

• Mix: The balance between your dry signal and the Lonkero cloud.

• Volume: Effect output level. 5 is unity gain.

• Mono / Stereo: In Mono, one input feeds the same signal to both outputs. In Stereo, you get stereo in and out, with the grains scattered at random across the stereo field.

• Trails: Sets what happens when you bypass. With Trails off, the effect stops and clears. With Trails on, the cloud keeps ringing out naturally while your dry signal passes through.