Comments on: MIDI Software Plug-ins, Many Free, For Your MIDI Processing Needs

By: NI Kore Minisite @ CDM » Free, Modular Power Tools for Kore 2: A Guide to the Reaktor Toolpack

Mon, 19 May 2008 16:08:31 +0000

[...] anything MIDI-related, check out the CDM Post on Free MIDI Plugins. For a (Windows) audio recorder checkout Livesync Recorder or Silverspike’s [...]

By: creepjoint

creepjoint — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:05:18 +0000

divbyzero, if you could combine all those filters in one app, that runs on windows :D

gonna check these out….thanks!

By: divbyzero

divbyzero — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:19:31 +0000

Also folks, don't get too hung up on the notion of plugins; MIDI messages can be sent between independent applications in realtime without any trouble (unlike audio, which is still a bit awkward, at least on Windows). Get yourself a MIDI thru driver like MIDI Yoke, and you'll then have access to a boatload of additional MIDI munging utilities. I'd humbly suggest my own set.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:52:42 +0000

@Bjorn: I love the Ableton MIDI plugs. But, yeah, of course there’s still more you can do with add-ons.

@James: not entirely sure what you mean there; Max is pretty reasonable for MIDI processing, certainly with simple timing structures.

@Niall: Yeah, watching Temper, I could believe that’s exactly what they’re bringing in.

By: Niall

Niall — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:12:47 +0000

Doh.

By: Niall

Niall — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:07:01 +0000

Nothing I’ve seen short of your Max/MSPs, Symbolic Composers and some algorithmic tools for the Atari have come close to the MIDI processing pipelines found in Sequitur, for the BeOS. ARP are hard at work on their Temper sequencer for Windows these days, and I hope they can be convinced to port some of those incredible filters.

Since I can never get the markup right here, plain text have to do:

Sequitur pipeline: http://www.angryredplanet.com/beos/Sequitur/Documentation/UsersGuide/03_pipelines.html

Temper: http://www.angryredplanet.com/temper/

By: Alen

Alen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:39:04 +0000

Nice. There are a lot of good free plugins.

By: beatfix

beatfix — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:11:19 +0000

Tasty. I’ve already started scooping up a bunch of new stuff – KeyKit in particular looks interesting. I have a love/hate relationship with VSTs – it’s hard to parse ‘em all and sort the wheat from the chaff.

By: james

james — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:41:19 +0000

there’s nothing better than bug-filled max patches for midi processing.

though it’s depressing that a computer’s errors are better than my actual ideas..

By: Bjorn Vayner

Bjorn Vayner — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:44:25 +0000

“Or something to harmonize incoming notes, or match them to scales? Or â€¦ well, just about anything else you can do with pitch and time with MIDI, from utilities to music effects?”

Luckily some hosts like Ableton Live come with plugins that allow to do this stuff on both platforms. But you’ll never hear it from Ableton themselves.
You can make MIDI Delays out of the Arp or Note length plugins. Crazy Arps out of a combination of all the MIDI Plugins and when combined with clips, you can even make a fully featured step sequencer.
Hopefully that Cycling partnership will allow us to make custom MIDI pluggo’s.

- Bjorn