![]() ![]() Again, updated to support full, per-note expressive play with MPE. U-he Repro-1Īgain coming to the land of software emulations of the analog synth sound, Repro is U-he’s line of Sequencial/Dave Smith Instruments Prophet line of instruments. Also, note that there are a lot of nice presets available right now for Diva, that could use a bit of expressive play made possible by MPE. Three oscillator goodness! Again, while in the past Diva was known to hog even the most expensive CPUs, today this issue is mostly resolved due to optimisations to the product. Also, there are a lot of under the hood things that make it stand out of the crowd. If you like the analog sound that hardware synths produce, you will love Diva. Diva is a staple in all studios, mostly because of its superb sound quality. They also updated it so that it has MPE support. U-he DivaĪnother U-he superstar, this time in a more Virtual Analog flavour, is Diva. Still, do manage the poly count as going above 12 voices can kill your CPU. While previously, their plugins were notoriously resource hungry, now not only did the machines we use became much more stronger, but the VSTs themselves have been optimised. This is no under statement, they make some of the best sounding plugins on the market. We are very happy that they implemented MPE Support on all their main virtual instrument products. U-he is no small name in the VST synth market. You can also use MPE to modulate rhythmic controls like the arpeggiator and the sequencer. The workflow is similar to modular synths, and to be honest it is extremely fun to play with. While not built from the ground up as 100% MPE, it has a lot of MPE compatible presets. So, here we go with our picks on the BEST MPE VST products : If you want to know more about MPE in general and also if you want to do some research into MPE devices, this article should do the trick.Īlso be sure to subscribe to our e-mail newsletter to stay up to date with the latest audio production and sound design news, deals, tutorials, reviews and much more: Submit In this article we will only focus on the virtual side of things, with the VST product marketplace being much more dynamic in terms of MPE support than the hardware counterparts. While some relatively older hardware products have included MPE support via firmware updates (the modern synths from Dave Smith – Prophet 6 and the collaboration with Tom Oberheim – OB-6), there are more and more new instruments coming out with support out-of-the box. Hardware synths, while not the subject of this article, have even less offerings that support MIDI Polyphonic Expression. ![]() Ableton for example has implemented MPE in its DAW called Live in version 11, which was released in 2021. While the MPE specification has been with us for quite some time, only recently have we seen very good implementations. I cannot verify that, as I haven't got an MPE instrument and neither bought Iconica.Hey guys! Today we are bringing you an ever-updating list of MPE VST products available right now on the market. As a new Halion instrument, there probably is Note Expression support and that should theoretically make it MPE compatible. If you are looking for out-of-the-box support of MPE/Midi 2.0 fpr orchestral intruments, I suppose Steinberg Iconica is your best bet. But even this is really difficult to set up for orchestra samples - however, possible with some complex set up. It does not give me pitch as a note per not parameter, but other parameters like dynamics, vibrato or filter FQ (on synths). Personally, I bought a midi keyboard with polyphonic aftertouch. Otherwise, potential buyers could be intrigued by the possibilities, but never buy any hardware device. ![]() The problem is, there would have to be a group effort to make all of those things available in a short period of time from a lot of companies at the same time. This looked pretty good for a while, but with ROLI being bankrupt, I am not sure how bright the future is. more midi controller with Midi 2.0 and/or MPE features. Again, Steinberg is probably closest, as they integrated their own VST 3 instruments to the note expression tech, but I guess there are not many active users and the whole thing is not really intuitive. many VSTi developers allowing single note manipulation for parameters like pitch, expression, crossfading, vibrato, etc. I suppose, Cubase is closest to this with Midi Expression, but it has not been updated for a long time AFAIK. more than one DAW offering MPE integration down to the UI. It would need some pioneer spirit like midi 1.0 had and lots of companies joining a group effort to make it happen where not any of those companies will profit from that effort immediately. MPE and Midi 2.0 are really dear to me, but I have somehow given up on it. ![]()
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