Jim Dunlop MXR M310 Textures | Granular Synth Guitar Effect Pedal
The MXR Textures Granular Synth Engine pulls your sound apart and weaves it into wondrous new forms. With the power of granular synthesis and dynamics processing, this pedal records what you play and reshapes it into a shifting blend of tones and timbres: shimmering pads, glitched-out rhythms, lush reverberations drifting back through themselves, and much more. It’s a sandbox in pedal form, and every grain is yours to shape.
- Like a delay pedal, the Textures Granular Synth Engine records your audio and plays it back. But instead of just delaying the audio, this pedal plays it back in small snippets called grains and hands you the controls to shape them.
- Play them in reverse, shift their pitch, freeze them in place, feed them back into cascading shimmers, and add the chaos of randomization to unlock new frontiers of sonic discovery.
- On-board reverb, filter, and vibrato effects shape your sound even further.
- Features eight different presets, from regenerative octave loops to warbly polyphonic synthesizer and glitchy blips to sub-octave pads with stuttering vibrato.
- The Mode button determines how the Textures Granular Synth Engine captures and replays your audio input.
- Delay Mode : continuously chopping up notes and chords into grains as you play (Clean repeats, smeared trails, and pitch-shifted echoes are all on the table)
- Auto-Freeze Mode : the pedal listens, captures, and sustains as lush, evolving washes of tone
- Layers Mode : samples up to four notes or chords into independent buffers (perfect for stacking harmonies, building polyphonic pads, or composing tiny orchestras) It’s a granular take on the MXR Layers™ Pedal.
- Want to add even more depth and dimension to your pads? Run the Layers Pedal into this one, especially in Delay Mode.
- Size and Overlap knobs set the length and number of grains
- Pitch and Reverse knobs set the playback speed and direction
- Delay and Regen control how grains move through time
- Mix sets the final blend, all the way from clean signal to fully granular
- Holding the Reverse or Mode button while turning any knob unlocks a second layer of parameters. Dial in randomization for passages that never quite repeat, fine-tune the on-board reverb, filter, and vibrato, or tap in tempo to lock grains to the beat.
- You can also plug in an expression pedal to morph between heel and toe states, hook up an MXR Split + Tap for hands-free preset scrolling, tempo tapping, or freezing, and configure the pedal for full stereo I/O with mono, wet/dry, or true stereo output
- Perfect for chasing the ambient tones, a noise rocker layering dreamlike chaos under riffs and solos
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