Pitch
Tuning that breathes
Let every note bend along its own path. Cents, not semitones: a chord shimmers and beats against itself without ever leaving the key.
MIDI effect plugin, in development
Every note drifts
on its own.
Turn any MIDI keyboard into an expressive MPE instrument. MPE Drift gives every note its own independent motion, generating pitch, timbre, pressure and pan while you play.
No MPE keyboard required.
Any MIDI keyboard
MPE Drift
Your MPE synth
Pitch
Timbre
Pressure
Pan
The idea
One chord.
Many movements.
Play a chord and MPE Drift turns every note into an independent moving voice. No drawing, no per note automation, no programming each voice. Just play, and let the movement happen.
One held chord. Three notes, three straight lines.
The same chord. Every voice on its own path.
One modulation over the whole chord is not enough. MPE Drift creates independent motion for every voice in it.
Four dimensions of motion
What actually moves
Four lanes run under every single note, each with its own shape, depth and rate. Your host can carry all four; MPE Drift is what generates them while you play.
Timbre
The slider that moves itself
Continuously reshape the sound per note, so a filter, a wavetable position or a formant wanders on one voice while the others hold still.
Pressure
Weight, on any keyboard
Evolving intensity on every voice, including keyboards with no aftertouch at all. This is the lane most synths react to hardest.
Pan
A chord that spreads out
Spread a chord through space, one note at a time, and keep it moving there, so a block chord stops sounding like one object.
Together they turn static MIDI into continuous, per voice expression.
Drift mode
How should your voices move?
MPE Drift does not only modulate. It defines the relationship between the notes in your chord. Set per lane, not globally, because pitch moving as a block and pan moving as a block are two very different wishes.
- Chaos
- Every voice follows its own path.
- Parallel
- All voices move together, and the chord breathes as one body.
- Orbit
- Motion travels from voice to voice, around the chord.
- Split
- Voices move in opposing directions: one rises while the next falls.
- Swing
- Alternating motion, locked to the host tempo.
Don't draw the expression.
Play it.
MPE Drift turns an ordinary MIDI performance into evolving per note MPE expression, in real time, as you hold the keys.
From one gesture
One finger, an entire moving chord
Chord machine
Build chords from a single key with octave layers, scale lock, note spread and humanize. Then let every generated note drift independently: one gesture, several expressive voices.
Motion meets rhythm
The built in arpeggiator turns one held gesture into an evolving pattern where every step carries its own expression. Run it freely in hertz, or lock the movement to your host tempo.
Your setup
You don't need an MPE keyboard.
MPE Drift works from ordinary MIDI input. Play the keyboard you already own, MPE Drift creates the per note expression, and your MPE capable instrument receives it.
Under the hood
- Formats
- VST3 and CLAP
- System
- Windows first
- Later
- macOS and Audio Unit
- Timing
- Host tempo and song position
MPE channel management and voice allocation, a channel filter, a bend range up to 48 semitones, and the MPE setup message on demand. Works with MPE capable instruments and hosts.
Before you go
Ready to let your notes move?
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