KVR Audio

zipidowski · Post by **zipidowski** » Fri Dec 05, 2025 1:40 pm

I also bought upgrade as it was cheap. Have not tested it yet. Demo looks awful though. Like Kel mentions, it doesn't sound musical at all on the demo videos.

UncleAge · Post by **UncleAge** » Sat Dec 06, 2025 3:31 am

planet_b wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 8:39 am
UncleAge wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:42 am
Dirtgrain wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 9:26 pm
dasen wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:19 am New chord plugin https://www.futureaudioworkshop.com/
This one seems to have been a bit buried in the feud.

Looks interesting. Will revisit when it outputs midi.
This should be pretty soon, as FAW's Instagram comment stated the midi out is now ready for release!

Bought. Intro price is reasonable. It is very resource heavy. In Bitwig my dsp meter is about 50%. My system isn't new, I run an i7-8700k @3.7ghz. At that spec it chews up about twice what Diva does. My guess is the sound engine. With that said...

I ran Midi Madness and Tatat into it for random midi notes and was happy with the results. My plan is to run a couple of ios midi generators like Polyphase into it and see what happens. Looking forward to running it with my own vst's too.

kidslow · Post by **kidslow** » Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:26 pm

Curious to hear more how any of you who upgrade to Instacomposer 3 are getting on with it as you dig deeper. I never felt compelled to buy the earlier versions. But I did get Ultimate MIDI bundle years ago for next to nothing, so I qualify for that upgrade, which would also give me Loop Engine 3. What?

I've demoed some W.A., and acquired quite a few free over the years, and there is a consistent sort of midness to their products. I'll say that. The 2 I personally have found the most interesting, Venom & MIDIQ, have not been updated in years, and when they did it was just to add a serial number auth wrapper. Neither is compiled for ARM on Mac, and still require Rosetta.

The Insta series seems to get more frequent updates and were compiled for ARM rather expeditiously, by comparison.

AFAIK, both MIDIQ and Venom were acquired from independent developers so maybe that plays a part. But they didn't acquire the code too? W.A. is where inspiring plugins go to die. I would use the term abandonware, but MIDIQ is being flogged in the new Ultimate MIDI Bundle 4. It's a company that I'm inclined to believe spends more on marketing & promotion than it does on software development.

Kalamata Kid · Post by **Kalamata Kid** » Mon Dec 08, 2025 2:59 am

Looking at Harmonic Animator:
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/harmon ... grooveslap
https://www.grooveslap.com/

Grooveslap presents Harmonic Animator (vst3/au/aax MIDI chord step sequencer)
viewtopic.php?t=612112

Requires iLok account (free). Both USB and Host

Has anyone ever seen this going for less than $60?

ere2learn · Post by **ere2learn** » Mon Dec 08, 2025 11:29 pm

Strum Plate - A Free MIDI Effect

https://gulfcoastsynthesis.com/strum-plate.html

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Digivolt · Post by **Digivolt** » Fri Dec 12, 2025 2:08 pm

New update for Stepic

Choikdoi · Post by **Choikdoi** » Fri Dec 12, 2025 3:36 pm

Undo / redo! I'm a happy camper. I love my brick Stepic.

ere2learn · Post by **ere2learn** » Fri Dec 12, 2025 7:50 pm

That "lane clock" in stepic is what really was missing for me, truly up there as one of the best sequencers available

UncleAge · Post by **UncleAge** » Tue Dec 23, 2025 4:33 am

planet_b wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 8:39 am
UncleAge wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:42 am
Dirtgrain wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 9:26 pm
dasen wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:19 am New chord plugin https://www.futureaudioworkshop.com/
This one seems to have been a bit buried in the feud.

Looks interesting. Will revisit when it outputs midi.
This should be pretty soon, as FAW's Instagram comment stated the midi out is now ready for release!

It has been updated and midi out works as expected. I like it so far. Money well spent. It's a bit heavy on the cpu however I plan to update to an Apple M4/M5 soon so it's not a biggie. I'm in Bitwig (5 something) btw...

parma · Post by **parma** » Tue Dec 23, 2025 4:59 am

UncleAge wrote: Tue Dec 23, 2025 4:33 am
planet_b wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 8:39 am
UncleAge wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 4:42 am
Dirtgrain wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 9:26 pm
dasen wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:19 am New chord plugin https://www.futureaudioworkshop.com/
This one seems to have been a bit buried in the feud.

Looks interesting. Will revisit when it outputs midi.
This should be pretty soon, as FAW's Instagram comment stated the midi out is now ready for release!
It has been updated and midi out works as expected. I like it so far. Money well spent. It's a bit heavy on the cpu however I plan to update to an Apple M4/M5 soon so it's not a biggie. I'm in Bitwig (5 something) btw...

I hope they consider releasing the MIDI Out part as a separate plugin without the unnecessary sound engine attached. It does use rather a lot of CPU for a relatively simple sample and VA sound engine

parma · Post by **parma** » Tue Dec 23, 2025 5:01 am

Hard to complain at the promo price, though

ZincT · Post by **ZincT** » Sun Dec 28, 2025 10:39 am

You can download for free the early-access version of Power Composer (Windows only for now) here...

https://powercomposer.net/index.html

It's a Music Making Software/MIDI Editor/Soundfont Synth.

tatanka · Post by **tatanka** » Sun Dec 28, 2025 1:43 pm

ZincT wrote: Sun Dec 28, 2025 10:39 am You can download for free the early-access version of Power Composer (Windows only for now) here...

https://powercomposer.net/index.html

It's a Music Making Software/MIDI Editor/Soundfont Synth.

Did I get this right that it is simply a daw independent piano roll ? Nothing generative or sequencing or whatever just drawing in notes ?

Agg · Post by **Agg** » Sun Dec 28, 2025 1:52 pm

ZincT wrote: Sun Dec 28, 2025 10:39 am You can download for free the early-access version of Power Composer (Windows only for now) here...

https://powercomposer.net/index.html

It's a Music Making Software/MIDI Editor/Soundfont Synth.

Haven't extracted the zip yet, but this already looks like I'd rather use this over Reaper's piano roll.

ZincT · Post by **ZincT** » Sun Dec 28, 2025 3:06 pm

tatanka wrote: Sun Dec 28, 2025 1:43 pm Did I get this right that it is simply a daw independent piano roll ? Nothing generative or sequencing or whatever just drawing in notes ?

Yes, that's what it looks like to me although it is in early development.

Anything and everything about MIDI - arp, mapper, mangler, generator, chorder, controller, utility, fx etc.