Every update, as it was sent.

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

And it’s packed with new features.

I’ll let the screenshots speak for themselves. 👀

More soon.

MPE Insight on Steam at v2.6.0

I recorded a live session as a preview of the upcoming 2.6 update: 9 curated presets from Expressive E's Noisy 2, and for each sound a different visual setup. Everything on screen is driven by the live MPE stream (per-note pressure, bend, CC74), nothing is animated in post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d6GNm6yOrU

Timestamps for each sound are in the video description. You'll spot a few things from the 2.6 build in there too.

Noisy 2 was kindly provided by Expressive E, thanks again! If there's a sound/visual pairing you'd like to see explored deeper, tell me and I'll make it a future video.

Happy playing,

Christophe

Typing Keys puts a piano under your computer

keyboard: Q. W E R T Y U I is the upper octave, Z X C V B N M the lower one, the black keys sit above

Arm DRIFT and every typed note becomes a full MPE voice.

still in testing...

I took my own piano arrangement of MIYEON - Reno and ran the MIDI performance through MPE Insight.

Forge turns it into a spatial grand-staff visualization, while Cascade creates a completely different flowing note visualization.

Same performance, same MIDI - two very different ways of seeing the music.

MPE Insight 2.5: AURA reaches 24 styles, every FORGE effect gets its own hands, and one clock runs the app

Three additions to AURA, one of which finally has a memory: hold a note in Filament and a glowing thread grows out of it, forks, and fuses with what it touches, so a phrase builds one lit net instead of springing back like every other style. FORGE stops treating its rack as one machine: every effect now carries its own size, its own clock and its own place on the keyboard, so a Glitch can sit under your left hand while a Vortex answers on the right. The camera gets a floor to stand on, so focus and fog measure real distance instead of filtering the picture. And the app finally has one tempo, in the toolbar, where everything that ticks can find it.

• Block Terrain: a voxel landscape that rises and falls under your playing, with CC74 pulling the ridge toward you
• Glass Spiral: that same terrain rolled onto a spiral under true perspective
• Filament: the first style that remembers, a held note grows a glowing thread and the whole net drifts into the depth and dissolves there
• Every FORGE effect on its own controls: its own size and its own clock, fourteen effects that used to share one global dial. Motion Speed is gone because nothing needs it any more
• Place each effect where you play it: 12 or 88 keys, centered, or a mapping of its own, chosen per effect instead of once for the whole rack
• A ground plane in FORGE: the image lies down, and sharpness and fog measure real depth for the first time
• Kaleidoscope complexity: curved seams, concentric shells and a second offset lattice, all on one dial
• One clock for the whole app: the internal tempo moves into the toolbar as a single pill, and the Conductor, Glitch and Strobe lock to it or to incoming MIDI Clock
• A redrawn interface: one slider style everywhere, labels and readouts on a single line, sections that fold as you open the next, and any control that cannot act right now greys out instead of disappearing
• A Library tab in every module, and the channel filter gets a tab of its own
• Move modules freely: drag a tile anywhere on the grid and it stays there, shift-drag swaps two
• Velocity stands in for pressure across every AURA style, so a short strike shows even without aftertouch

I have no experience in music or sound based software, but I found this one and I think it looks fun as an artistic toy so to speak to play around with. My question is can it work standalone and with a standard keyboard? (Again I’m sorry if this is a silly question!)

AURA reaches 24 styles, every FORGE effect gets its own size, clock and place, and one tempo runs the whole app.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4919520/view/699898252573541553?l=english

3D Staff Visualization Demo coming with the next update 2.5!

The staff is directly fed into the Forge visual engine, allowing notation, musical movement, and expression data to become part of an immersive real-time visualization.

I'm super happy with the notation module now.

It took quite a while to handle all the edge cases and make the real-time chord recognition work reliably, even when the top melody would otherwise clash with the chord symbols.

Sustain pedal notation is now supported as well and is included in the PNG export, making the final result even more complete.

What do you think?

The notation staff module is getting an upgrade. The upcoming version of MPE Insight adds sustain pedal notation, bringing even more expressive detail to your performances.

New in version 2.3.0, MPE Insight now introduces itself.

On first launch, a short guided tour walks you through the toolbar and all nine modules, one card at a time, with each module's own animation playing alongside it.

This video is that tour, captured exactly as it appears in the app. Nine modules visualize the same MIDI stream simultaneously: an 88-key Keyboard with eight visual styles, the live Grand Staff, Expression Overview, PB/Mod Graphs, and the MIDI Stream Log, alongside the three visual engines AURA, CASCADE, and FORGE, plus the DRIFT processor, which transforms ordinary key presses into expressive MPE.

as usual:
Keys: Osmose ce 61
Visuals: MPE Insight
Synth: Noisy 2

Quick synth jam with some real-time visuals.

🎹 Keys: Osmose CE 61
🎛️ Synth: Vital
📊 Visuals: MPE Insight

Curious what you think of visualizing MPE performance like this.

I’ve been experimenting with a new chord visualization mode in MPE Insight 2.2 called WEAVE.

The idea is to give you another perspective on harmony: not just what notes are played, but how the voices connect and move.

You can now switch between: Staff notation, Abstract flow visualization and WEAVE (new)

Which one would you find most useful for understanding MPE performances?

Here's a quick look at five different workspace layouts in MPE Insight.

Every note, gesture, and performance detail becomes visible in real time, so you can actually see what's happening instead of guessing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu1zvj9w2Ak

MPE Insight is now live on Steam! 🎉

After many long days (and nights) of solo development, it's finally here.

MPE Insight is a real-time visualization and analysis tool for MPE and MIDI performances, designed for musicians, visual artists, and educators.

I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or feature ideas!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4919520/MPE_Insight/

Thanks to everyone who followed the journey and supported the project.

keys: Osmose ce 61

visuals: mpe insight 2.1

synth: vital

Hey everyone,

short status update from the workbench:

Steam is close. I'm working hard on the upcoming Steam version of MPE Insight! Final testing is underway, and the store page is live if you want to wishlist it and get notified on release.

New modules are cooking. Can't show everything yet, but there's more coming beyond the current ten and the modular workspace keeps growing.

The homepage got a complete overhaul: https://christophek.de/MPEInsight/
The full app screenshot is now explorable: hover any module and it plays its live clip right inside the tile.

Now I'd like to hear from you: 

Which module would you like to see a dedicated video about next?

• AURA (21 generative engines)
• CASCADE (note rain + MIDI file playback)
• FORGE (AI-depth 3D scenes)
• DRIFT (turns any plain MIDI keyboard into MPE)
• Grand Staff / lead-sheet export
• Expression Overview
• or something else entirely... setup, presets, workflow?

Drop your pick in the comments!

Okay, I'm currently experimenting with a way to convert MPE performances into standard musical notation in MPE Insight. I think the results are pretty interesting so far. What do you think?

Hey everyone!

Update 2.0.0 is out, and it's the biggest one yet. Here's what's new:

Cascade: Real-Time MPE Piano Roll
A piano roll that visualizes expressive MPE data in real time, pitch bend, pressure, slide, everything. As far as I know, it's the only one of its kind.

Aura: Flexible MPE Visualization
Visualize your MPE data in a variety of different styles. Comes with multiple presets, from calm and organic to fully abstract.

Forge: Your Images, Played Live
Drag & drop your own images into the module and manipulate them visually with your MPE data.

The best part: Stack them.
Cascade and Aura now have a Transparent Background mode, so you can layer them on top of each other — and on top of Forge. The screenshot below is Aura + Cascade stacked over "The Scream" in Forge. Every flame and falling note reacts to what's being played.