“This pedal records what you play and reshapes it into a shifting blend of tones and timbres”: Introducing Textures, the granular synth pedal from MXR that dreamy ambient tones are made of

If ever there was a pedal that screamed 2026 it is MXR’s Textures, a “Granular Synth Engine” that belies its compact form factor to offer guitar players the capability to turn their electric guitar tone into something ambient and ethereal, to take it off the beaten path.

Somewhere, a few evolutionary steps back, Textures would be a delay pedal. That’s the processing lineage from which it came, taking your sound and playing it back to you – but when it comes back to you expect that sound to be altered. How it is altered is very much up to you.