polyphonic expression

Sequential’s Trigon-6 gets the desktop treatment – and update adds MPE

Sequential's monster Trigon-6 just got smaller and more accessible. You get all of the features of the keyboard Trigon-6, but...

Arturia Augmented BRASS makes it uncommonly easy to build up hybrid brass sounds

Arturia has rounded out its Augmented line with Augmented BRASS. It's like a hybrid brass plug-in even for people who...

What’s new in Arturia V-Collection 9.2: more performance, more compatibility, tuning

Arturia's V-Collection 9.2 bumps performance, compatibility, tuning and MPE support, and more. That includes all their vintage-inspired instruments, plus the...

Expressive E’s Osmose gestural keyboard instrument arrives, with artist backing

It's a keyboard, with elements of a hammer-style action. But it's also gestural, with per-note articulations. And now, it's more...

CLAP is a new open-source plug-in format from Bitwig, u-he – do we need it, and who will use it?

Bitwig and plug-in maker u-he today are announcing a new plug-in format into beta, dubbed CLAP, for CLever Audio Plug-in...

MIDI Polyphonic Expression has been updated with one powerful feature: better documentation

At the beginning of May, The MIDI Association quietly announced MPE 1.1. What's new? Absolutely nothing. It's the same spec....

Free MIDI Tape Recorder captures all your expression – sample-accurate, no quantization

It's a way of going truly off the grid - MIDI Tape Recorder captures and recalls performances as sample-accurate, like...

MOTU’s DP11 is more expressive, controllable, new Mac-ready, adds stuff users wanted

In DAW news, MOTU is continuing to cater to their loyal user base with more stuff they want, Apple Silicon...