Granular Rhythms
Motion: Fractal unleashes endless motion, texture, and modern sonic transformation through dual granular engines, a reactive trance gate, and stutter-repeat effects.
Whether you're crafting fractured beats, shimmering ambience, or glitched-out sequences, Fractal makes it musical, immediate, and deeply customisable.
What can Motion: Fractal Do?
Enhance static sounds with mesmerising granular textures.
Sculpt hypnotic, pulsating rhythms with an intuitive trance gate.
Trigger engaging, glitchy repetitions with flexible stutter repeats.
Control parameters with your cursor for mind-bending sound design.
Discover endless possibilities with flexible effects routing.
Bring modulation to life through an immersive, reactive 3D visualisation.
Creative Flow, Visually Driven
At the heart of the Motion experience is the intuitive hexagon controller, an evolution of the XY-pad, where you can assign and morph between granular parameters, gated rhythms, and loop behaviours in real-time. No menu diving. No friction. Just expressive control at your fingertips.
All effect modules, including the dual-granular engines, trance gate, and beat repeater can be fully rearranged, allowing you to explore countless sonic combinations and signal flows.
Glitch, Groove, Grains
Twist, stretch, and scatter any audio in time with twin granular engines that respond to your audio. Sync each grain to your track or drift off-grid into experimental chaos. From stuttered fragments to slow-motion time-stretching, every sound you feed into Fractal is reborn with rich texture and pulsing energy.
Layer unpredictable grains, precisely control pitch and tempo-sync patterns, or freeze audio to sculpt drones and granular pads that evolve endlessly. Enhance these evolving textures further using the dedicated Space module. Streamlined controls allow you to effortlessly create lush reverbs—ideal for adding cohesion to your granular soundscapes.
Pulse, Stutter, Subtract
Inject rhythm into your sounds with Fractal's trance gate and beat-repeat engines. Customise intricate patterns via a 32-step trance gate sequencer, sync rates seamlessly to your project's tempo, and shape dropouts smoothly or sharply with precise envelope controls for hypnotic grooves.
And with Fractal’s Repeater, craft complex, dynamic stutters using adjustable repetition counts, interval triggers, and sync or free timing - perfect for creating glitchy rhythmic textures and pulsating patterns.
Features
FX Page
5 effect sections: Grains Layer 1, Grains Layer 2, Gate, Repeat, Space
Routing section to re-route the plugin's signal chain
Cursor, Path and Timeline Page
Reactive 3D Visualiser
6 Macro Sliders
Per Slider Parameter Mapping
Per Slider Parameter Min/Max Values
Audio Reactive Envelope
Magnetic Cursor control
Input/Output Gain controls
Global Dry/Wet mix control
Safety Limiter toggle
Global Bypass
Step-by-step interactive tutorial
250 Presets
159 Dual Presets
66 FX & Mapping Presets
25 Path & Cursor Presets
Grains 1 & 2
Global adjustable buffer for capturing audio
Five different playhead modes for generating grains
Manual
Scan
Offset (Sync)
Offset (ms)
Offset (%)
Syncable grain Density & Size controls
Direction, Width & Shape controls for adjusting grain characteristics
Chaos control for adding randomness into the grains
Pitch & Spread controls for adjusting the pitching & pitch distribution of the grains
Hi-Lo Frequency Range slider
Dry & Wet level controls
Visual graph displaying the audio buffer and the number, position and pitch of the grains
Gate
Adjustable steps & step numbers for up to 32 steps in the sequence
Rate & Mix controls for adjusting the speed & balance of the Gate
Attack & Release controls
Repeat
Amount, Trigger, Rate and Offset controls for adjusting the timing & number of repeats
Hi-Lo Frequency Range slider
Volume & Duck controls
Space
Lush, atmospheric hall reverb
Length & Mix controls
Routing Section
Rearrangeable effect slots for customising the signal chain
Cursor & Hexagon
Attract & Repel modes
Magnet Range & Strength controls
Magnet On/Off Mouse settings
Slider Hold & Release controls
Paths
Record Cursor Mode
Line & Circle Draw modes
Path Drawing Tools:
Select Point/Curve Line
Add Point
Remove Point
Scale/Move Path
Timeline
Forward, Reverse, Pendulum Playback Direction
Loop Path toggle
Timeline Speed graph
Fixed/Free Timeline Duration
Timeline/Recorded Cursor Speed
On, Off, Sync Retrigger modes
DAW Sync or Free Timeline Duration
Time, Multiplier and Offset controls
System Requirements
macOS
macOS 10.15 or higher (Intel / Native Apple Silicon supported)
Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX, Standalone
DAW's Supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.
Windows
Windows 7 or higher
Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AAX, Standalone
DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.