Are there in-depth Polyend MESS Granular examples?

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Much like my unanswered question about the Polyend Synth before I bought two of 'em (because they sound gorgeous to me) - may we please have some specification-data on the granular effect?

I found the manual, but it is a ‘quick start’ sort of manual. There are two granular effects, Granular Burst and Particle Sampler. I then see each effect has 4 or 5 variations. Sounds wonderful, but there are no actual measurements, nor information on whether or not the granular engine(s) have variables in bitrate, length. Simply nice descriptions.

So, for each engine, what can be affected?

I know these are pretty specific questions; it would be truly wonderful to actually know what we’re getting versus listening to examples of sounds that are often affected via other effects post granular, and rarely adjusted during playback. Especially guitars swamped in reverb, often placed after the granular effect. Why is it only used for soup? I am not a guitarist, these effects all seem like they could be wonderful to affect field-recordings, synths, voices, etc., and I’ve got two hands to manipulate the effects. If anybody has any examples besides the few I’ve found on YouTube, it would be fantastic to hear/see them.

The same goes for other effects. Deep dives into filters, distortion, delays, modulations.

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Each granular engine has a 3 parameters that can be modulated. So there are various options to be sequenced for size, density, tune, shape, spray and offset. Only real time granular burst does pitch shifting.
For the particle sampler length of repeats is based on the sequence settings, so it samples on the first step you select and then granularizes repeats based on the burst parameters. I hope that makes sense, and is a start to answer your question.

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@Mitch yes this does make sense. It kind of sounds like the “Particle Sampler” could have extra-long grains if one were to turn the tempo down. Would that be a fair assessment?

The question(s) I’m asking is more “where’s the parameters and their min/max values, as well as each effects’ particular parameters’ values?”. I like to study the manual.

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Yes exactly.

I’ll see if we can flesh out the manual a bit here!

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Thank you very much!