Mizar Granular turns any four recordings into a slowly evolving soundscape. It finds the best fragments of each sound and lets them drift on three granular layers, NEBULA, ORBIT and CORE, like stars across a night sky. For ambient, film, installations and sound design. Max for Live instrument plus Audio Unit and VST3 plugin, 39 €.

4 sources3 granular layersGENERATE new landscapes8 chord coloursMIDI & TRIG modesfreeze · particles · space

Mizar is the double star in the handle of the Big Dipper, with its faint companion Alcor. Mizar Granular works the same way: a few bright sounds you choose, and a dust of fragments orbiting around them. Load it, press PLAY and it sounds, no MIDI needed. Every control can be mapped and automated.

• 4 sourceswith level, mute and solo; drag and drop any audio file, or keep the four built-in sounds
• Automatic analysisonsets and the most interesting fragments of every sound, ranked by brightness
• 3 granular layersNEBULA, ORBIT and CORE with pitch, fine, speed, level, pan and POS
• Starfield panoramathe real waveforms of the fragments; drag on a layer to move its reading head
• GENERATEa new arrangement from the same sounds, saved with your project
• 8 chord coloursfree, octave, fifth, major, minor, sus, maj7, min7
• Grain and motiongrain size, scatter, drift and drift rate
• Stardust particlesamount, density, size, sparkle and tone
• Spacebuilt-in reverb with size and damp, plus tone, low, width, attack and release
• FREE, MIDI, TRIGplay it with the PLAY button, from MIDI notes (C3 = original pitch) or start and stop it from a key
• FREEZE and SOLOhold any layer on one moment, listen to one layer or one source alone
• Mappableevery control is a parameter: MIDI map it, automate it, modulate it

Mizar Granular as a plugin: the starfield panorama with NEBULA, ORBIT and CORE, the four sources and every control. The Max for Live device has the same engine in Live’s device view, with a big window for the panorama.