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| UK & Europe | EU Standard | Gear4music Standard | Gear4music Optional |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return Period | 14 days | 30 days | up to 180 days |
| Standard delivery charges refunded? | Yes | Yes | Yes, up to 30 days |
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| Free collection on cancellation | No | No | Yes, up to 30 days |
| Free collection if defective, delivered damaged or incorrect item | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 14 days | Yes, within 30 days |
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Key Features
Minimal Audio Lucid is a granular processing plugin that can be used across any audio or instrument channel within your DAW to process any incoming audio into a unique, vibrant granular texture. Instead of treating grains as pitch-independent slices, Lucid detects the pitch of each grain and retunes it to your chosen scale in real time. This lets you transpose, harmonise, and modulate monophonic sources such as vocals and leads while keeping the results in key.
Its timeline-synced engine continuously captures incoming audio, letting you time-stretch, reverse, scrub, and snap processing to transients without losing connection to your DAW timeline. Per-grain filtering, stereo imaging, delay, and other processing provide plenty of scope for detailed sound design, while modulation tools add evolving movement. And if you’d rather get straight to the sound, more than 350 presets across 13 purpose-built packs provide ready-made starting points, with an XY pad for quickly exploring and animating patches.
Product Ref: 392776
Lucid tackles one of the trickier parts of granular processing: keeping heavily transformed material harmonically connected to your track. Its Scale Lock system detects the pitch of individual grains and retunes them in real time, so pitch changes, modulation, and stacked harmonies can follow your song’s key. Pitch detection is particularly suited to monophonic sources such as vocals and lead parts, where individual notes can be identified accurately. You can also stack multiple grains to turn a single source into richer harmonies, or sequence grains through your scale for evolving arpeggiated patterns.
Granular processing doesn’t have to drift away from the groove. Lucid continuously records incoming audio into a timeline-synchronised loop, giving you material that can be stretched, reversed, and scrubbed while remaining connected to your DAW timeline. Processing can sync directly to the grid or snap to detected transients, making rhythmic edits easier to place precisely. The locked waveform display provides a clear visual reference of the captured audio as you work. This makes Lucid useful for turning drum loops into timed stutters, reshaping sustained sounds, or creating rhythmic granular patterns without losing sight of their position.
Each grain can carry its own processing, letting effects develop across individual fragments rather than applying one static treatment to the entire signal. A multi-mode Grain Filter provides independent modulation and drive, while the Grain Imager distributes grains around the stereo field using different panning patterns. Grain Delay combines multi-tap echoes with scale-locked pitch shifting for harmonic repeats and arpeggiated spaces. Grain Blur can also smooth digital artefacts introduced by freezing and time-stretching, helping more extreme processing retain a natural character. Together, these tools let you build detailed textures directly inside the granular engine.
Lucid provides several ways to turn a static granular patch into something that develops over time. Macros, LFOs, curve sequencers, and envelope followers can be assigned to parameters using drag-and-drop controls or the modulation matrix. The animated XY pad brings two macros under one control, making it easy to move several assigned parameters together and explore different parts of a patch. Beyond the granular engine, eight studio-grade effects can be freely loaded across up to 12 rack slots for further processing. Over 350 presets and tag-based browsing also give you a quick route into Lucid without requiring previous granular synthesis experience.
"Lucid produces massive sounds that cut through without sacrificing detail." - Oneohtrix Point Never (Warp Records, The Weeknd, A24)
"Lucid takes the simplest sound and turns it into a living texture. It's become our go-to granular tool for adding depth to a track." - Dirtyphonics (Monstercat, UKF)
"Someone is going to pull up one of Lucid's presets and define a whole new genre. It can be as precise as it can be obliterating." - Daedelus (Monstercat, UKF)
