MIDI GUITAR 3 beta-testing
Guitar-to-MPE-MIDI tracking is here!
MIDI CELLO beta-testing
Cello/Viola/Violin-to-MIDI MPE, no special hardware required. Very early BETA. Looking for string players to help developing this.
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- WINDOWS
STABLE - WINDOWS
BETA - MAC
STABLE - MAC
BETA - iOS
STABLE
- MIDI GUITAR
- 2.2.1
(App and VST) - 3.0.55 BETA
(App, VST) - 2.2.1
(App, VST, AU) - 3.0.55 BETA
(App, AU, VST) - 2.6.0
(App, AUv3)
- MIDI GUITAR HEX
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– - 3.0.55 BETA
(App) - –
– - 3.0.55 BETA
(App) - –
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- MIDI BASS
- 1.2.1
(App, VST) - 3.0.55 SHAMELESS
(App, VST) - 1.2.1
(App, VST) - 3.0.55 SHAMELESS
(App, AU, VST) - –
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- MIDI CELLO
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– - 3.0.55 SHAMELESS
(App, VST) - –
– - 3.0.55 SHAMELESS
(App, AU) - –
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- STABLE versions for live use and serious production.
- BETA versions: for bedroom guitarists and hobbyist use.
- SHAMELESS versions: developer looking for help testing. Don’t use this 🙂
Downloads
Your Feedback
We try to develop MIDI GUITAR 3 with its customers. Please tell us how we can improve your workflow or report bugs in the forum.
Development TODO’s
Tracking improvements
MIDI GUITAR 3 is 7 years in development (over version 2). Tracking models have been trained, human evaluated, and adjustments fed back into the machine learning for over 200 iterations. Since this is very time consuming, we’ll be focused on all other things, during this testing phase.
Supporting lower guitar tunings coincide with MIDI Bass 2 and is a daunting endeavour. MIDI Bass 2 is in the pipeline and will bring some new technology for tracking those lows. It’s possible that some of this technology can be adapted by MIDI Guitar 3.
User Interface improvements
Smaller/compact UI for DAW workflows
Move things freely around.
Keyboard control across the UI.
Compatibility with MIDI GUITAR 2 patches
Some MIDI GUITAR 2 modules are still missing. Others are changed and will act/sound slightly different. Importing an old patch will need some manual adjustment.
The MIDI Machine scripting will have to change because of MPE. Some of the MIDI Machines are generalised by the more flexible wiring.
News
Oct 19th: MIDI Guitar 3.0.55 BETA
String-to-MIDI mapping, UI tweaks, font selection, networking, and new modules.
Oct 8th: MIDI Guitar 3.0.54 BETA
Plugin compatibility, Networking, HEX tracking improvements.
Oct 7th: MIDI Guitar 3.0.53 BETA
Plugin compatibility, Networking, HEX tracking improvements.
Oct 2nd: MIDI Guitar 3.0.52 BETA
MIDI GUITAR 3 HEX tracking improvements!
Sept 27th: MIDI Guitar 3.0.51 BETA
MIDI GUITAR 3 HEX and many fixes
July 18th: MIDI Guitar 3.0.50 BETA for Mac
Many fixes
July 16th: MIDI Guitar 3.0.50 BETA for Windows
VST plugins and many fixes
June 14th: First shameless MIDI Guitar 3 for Windows
Please wait for next update unless you are very curious.
May 24th: MIDI Guitar 3.0.48 experimental
Multithreading and legato
May 2nd: MIDI Cello 3.0.49 update
Duophonic and tracking fixes
April 27th: MIDI Guitar 3.0.47 update
128 buffersize now supported
What’s new:
- TRACKING: Buffer size 128 supported both when running in DAWs and standalone.
(although this this causes high CPU usage for now, until we support Audio Workgroups). - UI: Default UI toned down a bit and is less flashy.
- UI: New FLAT-UI redesign can be selected.
- FIX: Escape key will always close an overlay.
- FIX: Remove cables from the RETUNING and MODULATIONS modules.
- FIX: Various minor fixes.
April 15th: 3.0.46 was released
Minor update.
We have begun testing the MG3 plugin running in Logic and Ableton Live, but still recommend using MG3 standalone for now.
- Fixed a long standing bug where MG3 forgot to empty some buffers which could cause unnecessary latency when running in Logic and other DAWs.
- Fixed various interrelated bugs in the audio system error reporting, in both the plugin and standalone app.
- Error message comes up if the DAW process variable sized audio buffers (FL-Studio). We still don’t handle this.
- Added a button to clear file paths to directories of cabinets/reverbs/samplebanks/backingtracks
April 8th: 3.0.44 was released
As yesterdays 3.0.43 was a bit dodgy…
Changelist:
- Fix: Lost the MIDI GUITAR MINI patch in 3.0.43
- Fix: (rare) crash issue when changing patches
- Fix: Loading .mp3 backing tracks
April 7th: 3.0.43 update is out.
With many fixes and a looper…
Changelist:
- New LOOPER module
- Global play/stop (spacebar) to play/stop all loopers and sequencers
- Tempo/BPM change dynamically
- Set folders for external resources in preferences
- Browse for Reverb and Cabinet impulse responses
- Browse for Sample Banks
- Browse for Backing Tracks
- SEQUENCER added drum map and chromatic scale
- FIX: SEQUENCER wrong scales
- FIX: FL Studio variable buffersize crash
- FIX: for plugins by Brainworx
- FIX: for plugins by Madrona Labs
- FIX: for BOYD plugin save/load
- Minor fixes and UI updates
- Activation/spam emails should finally be fully resolved
March 27th: MIDI CELLO is out!
Cello/Viola/Violin-to-MIDI MPE, no special hardware required.
March 19th: 3.0.42 update is out.
Changelist:
- UI: Hold mouse pressed for one second to disconnect cable
- UI: Hold mouse pressed for one second to remove knob from external plugin modules.
- UI keyboard control:
– Return key to open patch selector
– Arrow keys to navigate patches/plugins, return to select
– Letter keys to search for patches
– Escape key to close plugin/patch selection screens - UI: In external plugin modules “learn parameter from plugin editor” is explicit
- REVERB can load external impulse responses (in .wav file format)
- CHROMATIC module (experimental) for re-triggering notes instead of bending them and for removing bends.
- Various minor fixes
March 12th: 3.0.41 update is out.
This update bring improvements to ergonomics.
Changelist:
- Re-order and drag around modules from and among CHAIN’s.
- Audio devices (more options) dialog will select mono inputs, rather than stereo input pairs. This should address many-channel-interfaces issues (MOTU, RME).
- MIDI Aftertouch can be selected instead of MIDI channel pressure in INSTRUMENTS and external MIDI OUTPUT.
- MIXER has pan controls which can be wired up and modulated.
- Plugins will be sorted by name of manufacturer by default.
- Knobs have more inertia.
- Preliminary support for 48Khz sample rate. Don’t use this for now – it cause tracking issues.
March 6th: 3.0.40 has landed:
Changelist:
- MIDI OUTPUT module reimplemented and can now modulate the 4 MPE dimensions. It’s also possible to add CCs to the midi output.
- PATCH SELECTOR will pop up when you hold down a MIDI pedal to change patches. You can browse through patches with your foot.
- PLUGINS and PATCHES can be organized in subfolders (video with instructions)
- Fixed issue loading patches after changing the patch file name.
- Fixed issue that could give black screens or black modules.
- Fixed issue with selecting input channel for audio devices with many input channels.
- Optimization of GPU memory usage.
- Optimisation of the plugin scanning process, to run faster.
- MPE keyboard visualisation adjusted: STRIKE (color), PRESSURE (size), BRIGHTNESS (vertical position), PITCH (horizontal position)