Grain (music)

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A grain is an elementary sound (sound grain) with a duration of 5 to 20 ms. By stringing together grains, new sounds can be generated ( granular synthesis ), comparable to individual images in film.

A grain is determined by the following parameters:

  • Duration of the grain
  • Waveform in the grain
  • Envelope for the grain (e.g. gauss, trapezoid, pulse)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Supper: Electroacoustic Music and Computer Music: History, Aesthetics, Methods, Systems . Wolke-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-923997-77-0 (accessed December 7, 2014).