Suspended

Hold the tail of a piano note, stretch a breath into a sustained tone, or explore the changing timbre of a bowed string. Suspended captures incoming audio and builds its output from small, overlapping grains. You can stay with one part of the recording, move through it by hand, or set the movement to gradually approach a point or travel back and forth.

Each grain can have its own length, pitch, filter and stereo position. Paired controls let you set a value and choose how much it varies from grain to grain. Small variations add movement to a held note. Wider ranges produce scattered fragments, shifting harmonies and irregular rhythms. The waveform and spectrogram show which parts of the recording the grains are using, and you can drag directly in the display to explore another position.

Capture a new sound while the previous one is playing, blend the frozen material with your live input, then fade back when you release it. Use Suspended to accompany a phrase with a sustained layer drawn from the phrase itself, carry a sound across a transition, or build new material from details in your recordings.