Sugar Bytes easily win this month’s ‘greatest plugin name’ award with their new Graindad. Not surprisingly it has little to do with a ‘grandad’ – so doesn’t smell of lemon barley, or complain about the price of tea – but is actually a granular synthesis effect. It has a traditional modulation system alongside a new one called Harvester which can control multiple parameters at once. Graindad is also big on randomisation – so has a link with your grandad after all – as you can apply that to pretty much every parameter. Graindad costs €99 and we’ll have a review soon.