Minimal Audio has announced the release of a new granular effect built for creating vivid textures, harmonies, rhythms, and transformations that stay in key and in time.
Lucid provides complete musical control over time and pitch, producing vibrant sounds that couldn’t have existed before, always in key, without breaking creative flow.
Industry-first grain scale-locking automatically tunes every grain to your chosen scale, while timeline sync keeps stretching, freezing, and playback locked to your session. Together, they let you reshape pitch and time freely without losing the musical foundation, while additional per-grain effects provide detailed granular shaping capabilities.
With a music-first workflow, Lucid can be dropped onto any source and shaped immediately. From subtle layering to complete transformations, its presets, per-grain processing, harmonic tools, and deep modulation make it easy to start quickly and go as far as you want.
Available for Windows and macOS (VST/VST3, AU and AAX), Lucid comes with over 350 presets across 13 packs, covering everything from harmonic layering and synced rhythms to shimmering spaces and total transformations.
The plugin is on sale for the intro price of $79 USD at Plugin Boutique and from the Minimal Audio store until September 30th, 2026 (regular $129 USD).
