My Slop Grainola🥣
A jam built around PAM's new Variation Hold system. MIDI note-hold triggers transport, release stops it - every hold sounds different because 94 LFOs + 50+ Vary + 30+ Envelope modulators are continuously evolving the matrix. M1 Max running at 47% FX / 61% total DSP load.
First clip: Running the preset via Variation Hold and resampling the master output into an empty cell - collapsing everything the modulation matrix generates in real-time into a single sample.
Second clip A: Processing the resampled material through Stretch's new XFade and Grain modes. XFade overlaps buffer transitions across the time axis; Grain decomposes the signal into granules and resynthesizes.
Second clip B: Combined pitch offset + Poly mode retrigger to generate different melodic and rhythmic phrases from the same cell.
Third clip: Watching the cascade effect of single parameter changes across the ENV, Vary and LFO pages - in a modulation matrix this dense, almost nothing behaves in isolation.
As @richarddevine once said: "PAM is absolutely wild and a manipulation monster."
Preset is public and free -> go catch it on the MAP Audio Discord.
In Celebration of the New BoC Album on PAM
WHAT'S IN THE PATCH:
Time-stretched children's vocals running through PAM's Granular Stretch engine — length altered without touching pitch, routed through FDN reverb for that signature hazy, cavernous depth
Pitch-shifted oldschool funk drum break — Varispeed mode off, pitch and speed decoupled, sliced into 8 points and sequenced via the Slice lane in the pattern editor
Drum envelope follower routed via PAM's Mod Matrix to the Tape Delay rate on the CtrlAll page — every hit scrapes the delay time, creating a live scratch texture without touching a fader
Guitar sample with Retrigger randomised by Vary modulation — each hit fires a slightly different retrig count, keeping the harmonic loop from ever fully settling
LFO-modulated filter cutoffs, ParamSeq lanes running at different speeds, cross-cell Vary routing — the kind of slow drift you don't notice until it's gone
PAM's modulation matrix does the rest. Everything you hear is inside the patch.
Find the preset on PAM's Discord :
https://map.audio/
Preset by topograFX
@topografx
We've just officially released our huge sampler plugin, PAM, out into the world.
Dedicated modulators for any parameter, envelope following, per-section randomization…
Modulate anything from anything: that was the philosophy we had in mind when we started building PAM three years ago.
Each cell houses one sampler, effects, and a dedicated sequencer commanding Note, Pitch, Stretch and Slice controls. Any parameter can have its own sequencer as a modulator, or can be controlled by one of six LFOs, or the audio output of a different cell.
Get the demo at https://map.audio – PAM is also available Rent To Own!
Video by Aeva @aeva4eva
https://aeva.studio/music
Music & Sound Design by TopograFX @topografx
Mastering: @tog.tr
