MPE Insight

MPE Insight is a real-time performance environment where sound and image share the same expressive data stream. Not a visualizer. A creative instrument for performers, composers, educators and visual artists.

No MPE controller? No problem. DRIFT transforms any ordinary MIDI keyboard into an expressive MPE instrument, adding per-note pressure, pitch and timbre so your playing becomes alive.

Create visuals directly from your performance with 24 real-time Aura engines, explore notes in CASCADE's musical visualizations, and enter 3D worlds with the FORGE depth engine.

KEY FEATURES

• Full per-note expression tracking: pressure, pitch bend, timbre (CC74), velocity and release velocity, per note and per channel

• DRIFT processor: transform standard MIDI keyboards into expressive instruments with generated per-note pressure, pitch and timbre, octave layers, chord generation, scale lock, quantize, humanize and an arpeggiator that runs free or locks to MIDI Clock

• 24 real-time Aura visual engines: particles, tunnels, kaleidoscopes, contour fields, DNA, silk flames, photo swarms, tonewheel and more, switchable instantly during performance

• CASCADE note visualization: a live piano-roll style rain of notes with eight combinable render layers, custom coloring, impact effects and bloom

• CASCADE Score Source: convert images, drawings or text into playable falling scores and export as Standard MIDI Files. No keys needed

• FORGE depth engine: transform images, videos and webcam input into explorable 3D scenes with AI depth, parallax, camera movement, feedback trails and visual effects

• FORGE module feed: route any other module into FORGE and fly through your own visuals in 3D, several at once and blended

• FORGE Conductor: an intelligent music-driven director that adapts camera movement and world behavior to your playing

• Live Grand Staff notation with four reading modes:

· Now: notes currently held

· Time: scrolling timeline

· Flow: expressive ribbons showing duration and pitch movement

· Weave: interval-based harmonic visualization

• Lead-sheet export: create sheet music from recorded performances and save as PNG

• Modular workspace: arrange 9 analysis, visualization and MIDI modules into your own performance layout, multiple instances supported

• Built-in MIDI file player: play MIDI files through the complete MPE pipeline, including DRIFT processing

• Full MPE recording with tempo-aware MIDI (Type 0/Type 1) and CSV export

• Automatic instrument detection: reads reported pitch-bend range and displays bends at their true size

• 89 built-in presets across Aura, CASCADE and FORGE scenes, with custom saving

• Three-tier snapshots: complete performance setups exportable as a single file, plus dedicated Aura and per-module snapshots, switchable hands-free via MIDI Learn

• Guided tour on first launch: a short clickthrough introduces the toolbar and all nine modules, each with its own animation

• Demo Mode with full MPE simulation: explore every module without a controller

• Built for visual performance: put any module, or all of them, on a transparent background for overlay use

• MIDI input/output, multiple devices, per-channel filtering, MIDI Clock and BPM sync, and flexible key layouts (88, 61 and 49 keys)

MPE Insight turns your performance data into something you can see, explore and perform.