Trying to vaguely emulate this in PD, based on a design originally made by Null Pointer ages ago. It's a twinned synchronous Pulse train which has lots of windows to load samples / draw to modulate the playback. I've tried to introduce some very basic masking and bigger scope for presets.

I made it in Purr Data, but think the only external is a zexy limiter~ and z~ object just on the output (not necessary really, just a precaution). Hopefully will work in Vanilla, but haven't tested it yet.

I'm a relative novice, so any feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure there's lots of things I'm not getting right, specifically how to trigger changes when the "tabread4~ window" indexes 0 (in between windows). Would love the pitch to effect the sample a bit more substantially, more like a vocoder, but haven't really figured that out yet. Should be easy enough to draw and load your own samples into the windows to modulate the pulse trains.

I would love to eventually figure out an asynchronous option, I know there are some impressive granular synths out there, but I really liked this original design from Null Pointer and wanted to expand on it further.

Let me know if anyone gets to using it, if there's any tips for improvement (I'm sure there are loads!).PulseGrainGenerator V_0.1.zip

How apropos; I just discovered the "$ pwgen 20" label on Bandcamp (all nuPg, all the time)!

A few changes I had to do to make this work:

Installed zexy, jmmmp (for f+), and maxlib (for arraycopy) from deken.

Added [declare lib zexy], and changed each occurrence of [f+] to [jmmmp/f+] and [arraycopy] to [maxlib/arraycopy]. I may not have done this the best way, libraries and externals still confuse me.

And now it's running! Haven't messed with it yet; I'm going to wait for a record contract from that label before I begin. Get me while I'm fresh!

Great, glad you got it working, and thanks for the feedback. I forgot I had some of those external objects included (f+ is just invisible to me now I use it so often). I'll try figure out vanilla versions of what you've listed so no externals are necessary for the next version.

It's still pretty messy tbh, and I don't think it's quite doing what it's supposed to yet, but it's good fun to play with. Let me know if you have any more thoughts on it, I'm going to try and play with it more myself too and see what could make it more interesting. The masking thing I'm really not sure about (if it's working the way it's supposed to) but essentially it's a way to register changes into the control side of things, so that would be a way to add more of your own shape to it. You could even bypass the masking, and just use the rawcount output to change the content of the windows.

Look forward to hearing your $ pwgen 20 releases! Cheers for your heads up on that label btw, have followed a few people who have used it, but good to see there's a dedicated label now!