Fritz is a granular effects device. Incoming audio is sampled and played back in small segments called grains. Many grains can play back at the same time, each with its own set of parameters. This simple mechanism can create complex and psychedelic effects including pitch shifting, drone synthesis, stutters, glitches, reverbs, pitch smearing, time smearing, chord generation, texture clouds, sonic bursting, and many effects that are too strange to be named.