Ixora

Quickstart guide

Experimental Grain Synthesizer

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Ixora interface: presets at the top, Material Workbench and Mod Engine on the left, Conduit and Fracture Engine on the right, and FX along the bottom.

01Presets & global controls

Click the name to browse; use the disk to save (* marks edits). D enables Drone; the output readout sets the final level.

02Material Workbench

Drop audio on the waveform, then trim with the lower handles. Probe moves through the sample; Mag focuses on a smaller region. Click a surrounding glyph to edit one of six materials.

03Conduit & Chaos

The large knob chooses which audible material supplies each grain. Chaos randomizes that choice. The glyphs on the outer rim select the workbench Focus. Right-click a material glyph for Bypass, Solo and layer actions.

04Mod Engine

Use + to add up to eight modulators. Select a tab to edit its shape or random behavior. Targets expose range, polarity (> / <>), bypass (B) and removal (X).

05Fracture Engine

Workbench values affect one layer. Fracture macros offset all layers; zero preserves each layer's setting.

Probe / Mag
Position / region size
Fragment
Grain duration
Density
Grain launch rate
Sync
DAW-clocked scheduling
Pitch
Transpose the cloud

06FX Section

Filter, delay and Space shape the combined output. Click each round effect glyph to enable or bypass its block.

Essential gestures

Drag / wheel
Base value
Shift + drag
Modulation range
Shift + double-click
Reset mod range
Right-click a target
Route options
Right-click a material glyph
Layer actions
+ Add Target
Assign from the list

Hold Shift briefly to reveal available targets; other controls dim.

How to modulate

  1. Select a modulator tab
  2. Hold Shift
  3. Drag a target

Refine its range under Targets.