RITUAL Audio Engine

Professional Granular Synthesis for Dark Ambient Soundscapes

Ritual Audio Engine is a granular synthesis application for creating evolving pads, drones, and ambient textures. It transforms audio samples into continuous  soundscapes.

Curated Sample Library

Includes over 70 exclusive audio samples recorded by Blot Heathen — a leading figure in the ritual and dark ambient scene — crafted specifically for deep, ceremonial pads and immersive drones.

The library includes:

• Troath singing: deep and dark troath singing records

• Chants layers: layered vocal textures for depth and brightness, as well melody modulations instead of static drones

• Instruments layers: bowed strings, jaw harps, horns, bells, rattles and didgeridoo

• Miscellaneous: experimental and atmospheric elements divided into low freq drones and mid-hight freq textures

In addiction, you can load your own samples into any of the three layers to build complex, evolving textures.

Three-Layer Granular Engine

Three independent layers, each with:

• Independent sample loading: load different samples per layer

• Granular synthesis controls: grain size, overlap, stretch, rate, and pitch

• Layer-specific filters: per-layer cutoff and resonance

• Saturation: adjustable warmth and harmonic enhancement

• Independent dry/wet reverb control: blend dry and wet per layer

• Stereo width: per-layer panning control

• Reverse playback: per-layer direction control

Layer samples together to create dense, evolving textures. Each layer can use different samples, parameters, and effects.

Advanced Grain Processing

• Window functions: Harmonic (smooth exponential) and Blackman (spectral shaping)

• High overlap (90%+): seamless blending

• Organic variation: subtle jitter, timing drift, micro-pitch, and grain size variation to reduce repetitive patterns
• Seamless looping: buffer wrapping for continuous playback

Sound Design Tools

Reverb Engine

• Diffusion network with multiple delay taps

• Configurable reverb amount per layer (0–200%)

• Lowpass and highpass filtering for warmth and clarity

Layer Filters

• Per-layer cutoff and resonance

• Real-time parameter control

• Independent filter settings per layer

Saturation

• Adjustable warmth and harmonic enhancement

• Ultra-gentle saturation for clean pads

• Per-layer control

Stereo Width

• Per-layer panning control

• Stereo spread for spatial depth

• Independent width per layer

Ritual Macros

• Breath: density modulation

• Chant: micro-pitch and timing variation

• Presence: stereo width and harmonic spread

Workflow

Real-Time Visualization

• Waveform display

• Spectrum analyzer

• Grain visualization

• Layer position indicators

Live Recording

• High-quality PCM capture

• Configurable sample rates and bit depths

• Real-time monitoring

Export

• WAV/MP3 export

• Configurable settings

• High-quality encoding

Perfect For

• Dark ambient and ritual music producers

• Sound designers working on atmospheric content

• Electronic musicians seeking evolving textures

• Experimental artists exploring granular synthesis