Plugin to split chords to discrete MIDI channels?

[Mr D]

Hi folks,

Picture this:

I play a chord on my MIDI controller.

In my DAW, the armed track has a plugin (either VST-i or VST audio effect) that will take that chord and send each voice to a separate MIDI channel.

So if i play 3 notes, it will send to MIDI channels 1, 2 & 3.

If i play a 5 note chord, it'll send to channels 1,2, 3, 4 & 5.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

[Shabdahbriah]

https://www.bome.com/products/miditranslator

[Mr D]

I need a plugin that can work inside my DAW!

[CinningBao]

You can easily do that with the MIDI Splitter in Plogue Bidule.
It's a modular environment so it might be a little overkill for your situation.
Or if you're in Logic you could probably program it in the Scripter (or request it in the logicproforums).

[gueims]

Divisimate is the pro answer.
https://divisimate.com/

[Mr D]

Found it! Piz midiPolyphony !!!

[Analog Dessert]

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For anyone finding this thread from search: I recently released a Max for Live device for this exact use case, called Pie Plate. Ableton-only (sorry!) -- but worth a mention for people landing here, as I've been looking for something like this for 10+ years, and it never came into existence, so I decided to make it.

Sits between Divisimate (looks super complex) and midiPolyphony (super bare, bland, almost unuseable, lol).

The thing it adds over the simpler free splitters is has a stable voice assignment mode, where: the lowest note of a chord always lands on Synth 1, the middle on Synth 2, etc, regardless of which key your fingers actually hit first. That keeps chord voicings consistent across a stack of synths instead of scrambling on every play.

15 routing modes: simple poly, round-robin, random variants, chord memory, minimal-movement voice leading for pads, bass+lead duophonic split, and more. Up to 16 voices, each on its own track.

For Ableton Live 11/12 only, via Max for Live!

https://analogdessert.com/downloads/pie ... er-router/ (https://analogdessert.com/downloads/pie-plate-midi-chord-splitter-router/)

It "just works" out of the box, even though the GUI looks pretty intimidating.

[Mr D]

Nice!

Question: did you include the "release finger to trigger chord" feature?

This feature allows you to trigger the chord only once a finger (any finger) releases, then triggers the chord (optionally with the exact timing that it was played in) ...... this solves the problem of the plugin not knowing if you triggered all the intended notes yet.

Someone made me a chord midi splitter app with the "finger lift" feature a few years ago, more info here:

https://maxforlive.com/library/device/1 ... e-splitter

I was thinking of revisiting the idea (what with the advent of Claude Code and all that), but i've got so many projects on the go, i'm note sure I'll ever get around to it!

[Tj Shredder]

Bitwigs instrument selector can do that nicely as well…

[whassup]

Is there a non-Max plugin that I can use DAW independantly on the pc?
Piz site is only white...

[Mr D]

https://www.paulcecchettimusic.com/piz- ... oad-links/

[] Peter:H []

Bitwigs instrument selector can do that nicely as well…

I personnaly prefer piz ... as far as I know the look-bitwig-can-this-and-that-like-plugin-x trick is not able to reliably number lowest notes to channel 1, regardless of using 3 notes or 4. Afaik bitwig instrument selector does this by round robin a fixed number of slots, doesn't it? But nevertheless, if this is what you need it's fine.

[dwringer]

For Reaper users there is also Tale's "Dynamic poly/mono MIDI router" JSFX from https://www.taletn.com/reaper/mono_synth/ which works quite well and has a few modes for voice allocation.

[SamDi]

I don‘t know any tool, which does this dedicatedly, rather some stuff like MIDI manipulation environments, which means, you need to put some effort on it. If you don‘t wanna use the tools from the DAWs, but wanna stay DAW-agnostic, one obvious tool, which you might have, is Reaktor. This is the way I‘d try it.

[Analog Dessert]

Question: did you include the "release finger to trigger chord" feature?

No, I handled it a bit more eloquently for musicians; there's an internal note settlement timing window (that is imperceptible to musicians, sub 5ms); but enough time to account for the micro/nano/milliseconds between note strikes ) It is very complex voice allocation code that took months