Motion: Fractal

Granular Rhythms

Motion: Fractal unleashes endless motion, texture, and modern sonic transformation through dual granular engines, a reactive trance gate, and stutter-repeat effects.

Whether you're crafting fractured beats, shimmering ambience, or glitched-out sequences, Fractal makes it musical, immediate, and deeply customisable.

What can Motion: Fractal do?

• Enhance static sounds with mesmerising granular textures.
• Sculpt hypnotic, pulsating rhythms with an intuitive trance gate.
• Trigger engaging, glitchy repetitions with flexible stutter repeats.
• Control parameters with your cursor for mind-bending sound design.
• Discover endless possibilities with flexible effects routing.
• Bring modulation to life through an immersive, reactive 3D visualisation.

Creative Flow, Visually Driven

At the heart of the Motion experience is the intuitive hexagon controller, an evolution of the XY-pad, where you can assign and morph between granular parameters, gated rhythms, and loop behaviours in real-time. No menu diving. No friction. Just expressive control at your fingertips.

All effect modules, including the dual-granular engines, trance gate, and beat repeater can be fully rearranged, allowing you to explore countless sonic combinations and signal flows.

Glitch, Groove, Grains

Twist, stretch, and scatter any audio in time with twin granular engines that respond to your audio. Sync each grain to your track or drift off-grid into experimental chaos. From stuttered fragments to slow-motion time-stretching, every sound you feed into Fractal is reborn with rich texture and pulsing energy.

Layer unpredictable grains, precisely control pitch and tempo-sync patterns, or freeze audio to sculpt drones and granular pads that evolve endlessly. Enhance these evolving textures further using the dedicated Space module. Streamlined controls allow you to effortlessly create lush reverbs—ideal for adding cohesion to your granular soundscapes.

Pulse, Stutter, Subtract

Inject rhythm into your sounds with Fractal's trance gate and beat-repeat engines. Customise intricate patterns via a 32-step trance gate sequencer, sync rates seamlessly to your project's tempo, and shape dropouts smoothly or sharply with precise envelope controls for hypnotic grooves.

And with Fractal’s Repeater, craft complex, dynamic stutters using adjustable repetition counts, interval triggers, and sync or free timing - perfect for creating glitchy rhythmic textures and pulsating patterns.

Watch Motion: Fractal in Action

• FX Page
  • 5 effect sections: Grains Layer 1, Grains Layer 2, Gate, Repeat, Space
  • Routing section to re-route the plugin's signal chain
• Cursor, Path and Timeline Page
• Reactive 3D Visualiser
• 6 Macro Sliders
  • Per Slider Parameter Mapping
  • Per Slider Parameter Min/Max Values
  • Audio Reactive Envelope
• Magnetic Cursor control
• Input/Output Gain controls
• Global Dry/Wet mix control
• Safety Limiter toggle
• Global Bypass
• Step-by-step interactive tutorial
• 250 Presets
  • 159 Dual Presets
  • 66 FX & Mapping Presets
  • 25 Path & Cursor Presets

Grain Layers 1 & 2

• Global adjustable buffer for capturing audio
• Five different playhead modes for generating grains
  • Manual
  • Scan
  • Offset (Sync)
  • Offset (ms)
  • Offset (%)
• Syncable grain Density & Size controls
• Direction, Width & Shape controls for adjusting grain characteristics
• Chaos control for adding randomness into the grains
• Pitch & Spread controls for adjusting the pitching & pitch distribution of the grains
• Hi-Lo Frequency Range slider
• Dry & Wet level controls  
• Visual graph displaying the audio buffer and the number, position and pitch of the grains

Gate

• Adjustable steps & step numbers for up to 32 steps in the sequence
• Rate & Mix controls for adjusting the speed & balance of the Gate
• Attack & Release controls

Repeat

• Amount, Trigger, Rate and Offset controls for adjusting the timing & number of repeats
• Hi-Lo Frequency Range slider
• Volume & Duck controls

Space

• Lush, atmospheric hall reverb
• Length & Mix controls

Routing Section

• Rearrangeable effect slots for customising the signal chain

Cursor & Hexagon

• Attract & Repel modes
• Magnet Range & Strength controls
• Magnet On/Off Mouse settings
• Slider Hold & Release controls

Paths

• Record Cursor Mode
• Line & Circle Draw modes
• Path Drawing Tools:
  • Select Point/Curve Line
  • Add Point
  • Remove Point
  • Scale/Move Path

Timeline

• Forward, Reverse, Pendulum Playback Direction
• Loop Path toggle
• Timeline Speed graph
• Fixed/Free Timeline Duration
• Timeline/Recorded Cursor Speed
• On, Off, Sync Retrigger modes
• DAW Sync or Free Timeline Duration
• Time, Multiplier and Offset controls

Videos

Exploring deep space ambient with Motion: Fractal

Version Comparison

System Requirements

macOS

• macOS 10.15 or higher (Intel / Native Apple Silicon supported).
• Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, AU, AAX, Standalone
• DAW's Supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.

Windows

• Windows 7 or higher
• Plugin formats: VST, VST3, AAX, Standalone
• DAWs supported: Ableton Live, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, Reason + more.
• Compatibility: 64-bit compatible only.

Note: If accessing this software via a Rent to Own plan or the Beatport Studio membership, it is installed and activated through the Beatport Access portal. An internet connection is required every 3 days to validate your license.