mżawka

A sound that's only yours

• Start from your own material

  Everyone downloads the same sample packs. Load a voice memo, a recording from a walk or a loop you made years ago, and mżawka turns it into an instrument nobody else owns.

• Never the same twice

  Turn up spray and space, and every grain picks its own spot in the sample and its own place in the stereo field. The same note comes out a little different every time.

• Found by ear

  Every control sits on one screen and answers the moment you turn it. You look for the sound by listening, and when you find it, it's saved with the project.

Thirty seconds to the first sound

1. 01

   Drop a sample

   Drag a file onto the window, or click load sample. WAV, AIFF, FLAC or MP3, up to ten minutes.

2. 02

   Hold a note

   Draw a long MIDI note, or open the keys strip and click one. The grains keep falling for as long as you hold it.

3. 03

   Move position

   Drag across the waveform to choose where the grains come from. Then try length and spray, and listen.

What you get

• You can see the grains

  Every grain that plays falls through the waveform as a drop of light, right where it reads from. You see what you hear.

• Eight voices

  Play chords. Each key plays its own place in the sample: C3 where position points, every key above a step further in. Switch NOTES to PITCH and the keys change the pitch instead.

• Locked to tempo

  Turn on sync and the grains land on a division of the project tempo, from whole notes to sixteenth triplets.

• Presets to start from

  Nine starting points, from soft drizzle to a full storm, and a save button for your own. A preset changes the controls and leaves your sample and position where they are.

• Projects that travel

  The sample is saved inside your project. Open it on another computer and it sounds the same, even without the original file.

Fifteen controls

What each one does.

grains

How many grains start every second. With sync on, a note division instead.

length

How long each grain lasts, 10 ms to 2 s. Short is rough, long is smooth.

chaos

Lets the position drift on its own and makes grain length, timing and pitch a little uneven, like real rain.

shape

The envelope of each grain: hann, gaussian, triangle, trapezoid or square.

position

Where in the sample the grains are read from.

spray

How far around that point the grains wander.

reverse

How many of the grains play backwards. At 100 % all of them do.

tune

Pitch in semitones.

attack · release

How the sound fades in when you press a key and out when you let go.

space

Spreads the grains left and right.

reverb

A long room behind the grains.

output

The plugin's level.

sync

Grain timing on the tempo grid, or free.

notes

Position: each key plays a different place in the sample. Pitch: keys change the pitch, like a regular sampler.

key track

In pitch mode: keys change the pitch, or every key plays the same.

Pricing

One licence. Yours for good. Updates included.

Requirements

Formats

VST3 · Audio Unit (AU)

macOS

10.13 or newer · Apple Silicon and Intel

Windows

10 or 11 · 64-bit

DAWs

Logic Pro, GarageBand, Ableton Live 10.1+, FL Studio, Cubase, Studio One, Bitwig, Reaper and any 64-bit VST3 or AU host

Files

WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, any sample rate

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