Lucid turns granular into an instrument — Sunday Loop #012
Why Sunday Loop exists
The week moves fast. Between work, sessions, and everything else, the good reads get lost in the noise.
Every Sunday evening I share a few links — things I found worth reading during the week. Logic Pro, sound design, sampling, the occasional curveball. No algorithms, no filler. Just a few things I’d genuinely recommend to a friend.
Grab a coffee. It won’t take long.
— Ewald
This Week
1. Lucid slices, stretches, and scrubs sound like no other granular FX
Category: Sound Design
Most granular FX bury you in clouds and mist. Minimal Audio’s Lucid starts as a looper instead — Stretch and Scrub let you navigate captured audio in time and tune, quantized or not. Then it stacks a per-grain filter, imager, grain delay, and a full mod matrix on top. This is where granular stops being a texture generator and becomes a performable instrument.
2. Sampling and Field Recording in 2026 as a Creative Process: How to Build Tracks From the World Around You](https://www.gearnews.com/sampling-and-field-recording-workshop/)
Category: Sampling
If your sample folder looks like everyone else’s, this is the fix. Gearnews walks through field recording as an actual production method — recorder in your jacket pocket, contact mic on a fridge, then pitch, granular, and layer until the scrapyard doesn’t sound like a scrapyard anymore. Depeche Mode were doing this in the 80s. The gear just got cheap.
3. inMusic has shut down the Native Instruments UK office, and the CEO and CTO had to leave](https://synthanatomy.com/2026/08/native-instruments-will-acquire-native-instruments-joining-the-portfolio-with-akai-and-moog.html)
Category: Sampling
The inMusic integration of Native Instruments is getting real. The UK office is shut down, the CEO and CTO are out, and roughly 100 people were let go across nearly every department — support reportedly gone entirely. inMusic promises “business as usual” and new hardware for 2027, but if you’re deep in Kontakt or Komplete, this is the shape of the company that maintains those tools now.
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