twig.
Drop in a short sample and Twig rebuilds it as a playable synth. Then turn two knobs and grow it into something you couldn't have sampled.
- Formats
- VST3 · App
- Polyphony
- 16 voices
- Families
- 12
hear it first.
Demos played through Twig, straight out of the plugin.
how a sound grows.
- Drop a sample on the screen. WAV, AIFF, FLAC or Ogg. Twig analyses up to two seconds and draws your sound as a tree.
- Compare. Original plays the analysed sample. Synth plays the rebuilt sound.
- Turn Family and Weird. Twelve families of mutations branch off the tip of the tree. Weird has five steps, from your sound itself to the wildest branch.
- Keep it. The branch becomes the new sound, so you can keep growing from there. Back undoes it.
- Refine searches the sample again and keeps any improvement. New Seed starts a fresh tree.
the knobs change job with the tab.
Pick a tab along the top of the screen and the four knobs take on new jobs. Each page draws what they do: a filter curve, an envelope, echo taps, an oscillator shape.
Play
Family, Weird, DNA, Cross
Shape
Cutoff, Reso, Drive, Output
Env
Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release
FX
Time, Feedback, Echo, Ambience
Osc
Wave, Mix, FM, Detune
built to play, not just to copy.
Expressive
16 voices, mono and glide, sustain, pitch bend, mod wheel and pressure.
Detailed
Up to 64 partials with shaped noise and attack detail. Pitch drops follow the source, like a kick falling from 230 Hz to 55 Hz.
Breedable
DNA blends back toward the source. Cross breeds your sound with a second sample.
Self-contained
The patch lives in your session. Reopen the project and it plays without the original file.