Until now a grain was given its place when it was launched and kept it until it faded. The In-Grain Panner sets every single grain in motion while it sounds: Pan carries it from one side to the other, Center Pan swings it from the center out to both sides and back, so a grain starts and ends in the middle. How far it travels, and in which direction, is set by the Panner Grain Modulation - and since that modulation can give every grain a value of its own, a cloud of long grains turns into a field of independent movements instead of a row of fixed positions. In the Stereo and Multichannel modes the pan runs between left and right; in the immersive and Atmos modes it works on top of the 3D Panner and moves each grain around its place on the 3D path.
Every grain in crusher-X has a filter of its own, and the new 24 dB Ladder switch gives that filter a second character: Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass and Bandstop then cut 24 dB per octave instead of 12, with the resonant sound of a ladder filter. Filter Cut and Q drive it exactly as before, so every Grain Modulation that sweeps or scatters the cutoff now does it with a steeper, more resonant edge - grain by grain. The switch is stored with the Program and morphs along with it.
The editor now follows the performance: a parameter changed by host automation, MIDI, OSC or an Adore or Macro knob brings up its tab, never while you hold the mouse, and the moves of a learned MIDI or OSC controller are now recorded as DAW automation, just like a mouse move. The mapping editor gets a right-click menu that also moves MIDI mappings between the global list and the one stored with the Program, and the Settings Tab is sorted onto three pages - Global, Instance and Connectors. On top of that comes a long list of fixes: X-Crush no longer cracks or bursts, the DCO waveforms play exactly at the set frequency, the curve editors, the mapping editor and Program copy, export and switching behave as expected, and a number of rare freezes and crashes are gone - among them the Binaural Processor crash on Intel Macs.
Enjoy!