Spacecraft Granular Synth

Mark Watt

About this app

With Spacecraft you can transform any sound into a playable musical instrument via Granular Synthesis. You can create textures, soundscapes and arpeggiated rhythms from sounds such as your voice, ambient noise or the high quality built-in audio samples*.

Spacecraft can be controlled either on-screen, with MIDI or with MPE devices.

Tap the 'Input' button (top left) to record audio via your device's microphone or load a file from your device. Also, you can save your creations and corresponding samples via presets. Also, tap the 'rec' button (top right) to record your performance (maximum 20 minutes).

* Important: as it is impossible to test all existing Android devices, there may be some devices which have poor audio quality (audio glitches). If this is the case, please get a refund and let me know at [e-mail] so I can blacklist your device.
** For lower-end devices, there are options in global settings to reduce the number of grains (restart required) and reduce GUI animations
*** Some bluetooth headphones may have degraded audio quality

Ratings and reviews

Spent about 1 hour on this app, but I can safely say that it's definitely one of the best granular synths that can be found on the playstore. Really intuitive, really fun, you can get fantastic results. Cheers! EDIT: See a few people complaining about crackling sounds when using the app. A way to remedy that issue is to check and uncheck the separate app option in the System Settings. Most likely an Android issue, since I didn't have this initially, and a few other apps are also affected.

It meets and exceeds expectations. I'm not a musician, but I have a lot of music apps because I find it fun. I have a handful of expensive music studios. They are a steep learning curve. This app is intuitive, and you can figure it out with minimal reliance on guides. It has a smooth setup for modifying sounds. If you're new to music or do it as a hobby and you want to create your own digital instruments, this is absolutely worth checking out.

I've been using this app for years on the iPad and just got it going on Android. Choice piece of kit that works in a very natural and organic way. The sounds you can produce are amazing and by having to two samplers together you can really explore in a compositional way. Love it

What’s new

- MIDI CCs are now set to default values (see manual on website)
- sliders in settings panels now go right to the edge