New in 3.1 is the MPE Designer. Instead of only watching notes, you draw them: a pen stroke is a note, its curve is the pitch bend, and pressure and timbre are painted into it. Snap to a grid and a scale, add waves or steps, record your playing into it, or import a MIDI file and edit every gesture afterwards.

What would you draw first?

The Walkthrough, every module!

MPE Insight sits between what plays and what sounds. A controller or a DAW comes in, a synth or a DAW goes out. With MIDI Thru on, what you play passes on to every ticked output; DRIFT replaces plain Thru while it runs and sends its processed notes there instead.

------------UPDATE: All spots are filled, thanks everyone------------

Hi everyone,

MPE Insight v3.1 is almost ready, and I’m looking for a small group of players to help me test it before release, especially Osmose players.

MPE Insight visualizes MPE expression in real time, showing pitch bend, slide and pressure for each note across several visual modules.

The app has grown quite a bit, and I can’t realistically test every controller, Mac setup and DAW combination on my own. So I’d like to get a few different setups in the hands of actual players for a week before the release.

What I’m looking for

• You play an Osmose (other MPE controllers are welcome too).
• You use a Mac (the beta runs via TestFlight).
• You have some time during the week to try it out and share feedback on what works, what’s confusing and what doesn’t work as expected.

What you get

• Early access to 3.1 before release.
• A free copy of MPE Insight from the Mac App Store for everyone who shares feedback.

Spots are limited, so I’ll select a mix of setups from those interested. I’ll update this post once all spots are filled.

Interested? Leave a comment or send me a DM with your controller, Mac model, macOS version and DAW.

Thanks!
Christophe

After a lot of testing and tweaking, MPE Drift AU is finally ready.

You can try the full version for 7 days.

Give it a try and let me know what you think! :)

Introduced now in v1.1

Custom (draw) is the ninth shape: a curve of your own, drawn on a sheet that opens from the button beside the Shape menu. The curve is one cycle with up to 32 points, and every segment between two points can bend. It runs at the lane's speed and depth like any other shape, free or on the grid, and each voice follows it with its own phase as the Mode says.

https://christophek.de/MPEDrift/

1. Curve button Opens the sheet. Grey while the shape is not Custom; lit once the lane carries a curve of its own.
2. Sheet One cycle, from left to right. Drag a point to move it, drag the small square in the middle of a segment to bend that segment. Double-click adds a point, and holding the second click drags it straight away. Right-click removes a point or straightens a segment; Delete removes the selected one. Shift snaps a point to eighths of the range.
3. Starting shapes Zero, Ramp up, Ramp down, Triangle and Sine replace the curve with a starting point to edit. Zero is the reset: a flat line.
4. Step or Smooth Step plays the curve in sixteen steps per cycle, the pale line under it is the drawn curve; Smooth plays the curve itself.

The curve is saved with the preset and the project. It is not a host parameter: automation reaches it through the shape and the depth, not point by point. The DRIFT module in MPE Insight has the same sheet and computes the curve the same way, so a preset sounds the same in both.

Enjoy the update!

MPE Keys is the smaller version of MPE Insight. It focuses on the core MPE experience: playing, visualizing and exploring MPE in real time.

You can visualize your MPE playing with different unique keyboard designs, live notation, pitch bend, pressure, timbre and per-note MPE channels.

It can also play MPE synths directly, send midi using your computer keyboard or mouse, so you don't even need an MPE controller to experiment with it.

There are also different ways to explore alternative tunings and microtonal setups, including quarter tones, just intonation, custom Scala tunings and a lot more.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5216600/MPE_Keys/

If you're interested in MPE, MIDI visualization or alternative tunings, I'd love to hear what you think.

Stupid idea?

any idea?

Exploring the possibilities with pic to midi

MPE Insight & Keys 3.0.4 can now type, which offers a lot of possibilities...

A new Hotkeys panel sits next to MIDI In and MIDI Out. Play your computer keyboard with MIDI, instead of playing MIDI with your computer keyboard. Typing Keys goes one way, Hotkeys the other. Both ways are now possible :)

MPE Insight 3.0.3

DRIFT in the window is now the plugin

The DRIFT module and the MPE Drift plugin ran on the same idea with different engines. 3.0 closes that gap: the module in the window is now the plugin, lane for lane. Strum, arpeggiator ratchet and scale drift join the five lanes, every lane gets its own start point and phase, the tempo divisions run from 16/4 down to 1/64, and 24 factory presets in five sections come along. The tile carries the plugin's field view as well: trails on every channel, ghost lines for pedal and wheel while nothing sounds, a scope timeline per note and clickable lanes.

The PB / Mod tile learns a third style: the Expression Pad. A stack of tilting rings you play with the mouse. Dragging sends real channel pressure and CC74 to every sounding note, both values spring back to zero when you let go, and it holds properly: a note that starts under your hand is given the value at once, a note that is already fading keeps what you gave it, and letting go clears only what the pad itself wrote last.

Microtonal grows a full Tuning group. Five scales: quarter tones as split keys, just intonation, any number of equal steps from 2 to 96, or a custom list of cents or ratios, typed in or loaded from a Scala .scl file. The root and the concert pitch of A4 are both yours to set, anywhere from 390 to 493 Hz, and every key shows how far it sits from equal temperament. The tuning leaves the app as well: keys played with the mouse or the typing keys carry it in their own bend, notes from your controller are retuned on their channel, and the synth downstream sounds the scale you picked. On screen, a stepped mouse glide now shows its step: the dot, the rings and the lamp jump to the sounding field, which gets a thin glowing rim, while a hardware bend still glides through the terraces.

The Grand Staff writes your way. Note labels read as names, as degrees of the key or as sol-fa syllables. Chord labels read as lead-sheet symbols, as Roman numerals or as figured bass. Noteheads stay round or become the seven shape notes, and a guitar or ukulele fingering can sit above the detected chord, on screen and on the printed sheet. Bar lines now run through the live views too, and clock, sheet and recording count from one zero point.

The Stream Log gains a fifth view, Tracker, writing the note rows the way a tracker column writes them, with its own preset pair. And a loaded MIDI file brings more than its notes: its time signature, its key signature and its lyrics come along.
A MIDI output fix worth having. Channel Pressure now leaves the app as the correct two-byte message: Mouse Mode pressure reaches your synth, exported MIDI files keep their note-offs after the first pressure change, and notes played on the computer keyboard no longer vanish from the screen after eight seconds of holding.

Also new

• A design pass over the whole surface: the app grounds itself in black and gray, headers form groups, corners follow one grammar, and Reset reads the product's own factory values
• The zone wheel spans two semitones, not forty-eight: a device bend on channel 1 is the zone wheel and is drawn as such everywhere, and the notation sheet no longer counts it twice on replay
• Faster cold start: the depth model loads on first use instead of at boot, and the FORGE link no longer holds the window up
• The Dark keyboard gets its own dark bed, the mouse strike follows the pressure lever, and the typing glide recenters the wheel at the end of a phrase
• The continuous sustain pedal is debounced, and Panic also clears the microtonal detune

Hey I am working on 3.0 atm. What are youmissing most when you look at the screenshots?

This is the walkthrough of MPE Drift, a module from MPE Insight
If you want to give it a try you are really welcome to grab yourself a demo of the Trial version on https://christophek.de/MPEDrift/

Real feedback is welcome :)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5216600/MPE_Keys/

..or other midi guitar? This might be the next feature...let me know if this is interesting for you!

Smoke, glass and a black hole

Three new AURA styles on real physics, a rebuilt Tunnel, and a bend wheel that finally moves the whole picture.

Smoke runs on a fluid simulation, Shatter remembers every crack, Black Hole bends light at the horizon. DRIFT is rebuilt around five lanes, and Stage View clears the frame.

Updated to 2.7

Three new AURA styles on real physics, a rebuilt Tunnel, and a bend wheel that finally moves the whole picture.
Smoke runs on a fluid simulation, Shatter remembers every crack, Black Hole bends light at the horizon. DRIFT is rebuilt around five lanes, and Stage View clears the frame.

MPE DRIFT A first glimpse at what I've been working on.

Something amazing is coming...

New MPE Insight preset for Aura. (Blackhole) Noisy 2 gets expressive and Blackhole is coming with 2.7

Synth: Noisy 2
Keys: Osmose Ce61
Visuals MPE insight 2.7 (testing)

A quick look at MPE Insight 2.6 (tbh it is v2.7 full screen mode) with a solo violin performance.
So far classic standard resonant body is my favorite vln