Hi everyone,
We've just wrapped up 3 months of beta-testing on Filament, with a load of you lot - and happily today we're launching!
Filament is a real-time Midi Orchestration Engine, it's designed so that you can build setups and orchestrations for Synths, Sample Libraries, Percussion - anything you can think of and then perform and swap those setups in
real-time.
To find out more visit: www.formalabsaudio.com
It's been designed to support a lot of different workflows, with a tonne of functionality. Alongside the launch I wanted to open this thread to answer any question you all might have.
Features include but are not limited to:
12 Keyswitches
Store 12 complete setups and switch between them instantly and musically.
8 Input Voice Layers per Keyswitch
Each voice has its own routing, range, and chord detection settings.
Intelligent Chord Revoicing
Smart Filter mode distributes voices dynamically, or turn it off for direct control.
64-Output Routing Matrix
Route any note to any output, with per-connection transpose (-36 to +36 semitones).
Phrase Arpeggiator
Not just arpeggios—build complete moving parts with per-step articulations, velocity curves, CC automation, and Euclidean step lengths.
MIDI Clip Launcher
Drop MIDI files into 12 slots per output, edit in the piano roll, trigger and reharmonize live.
CC Modifier
Shape dynamics per instrument, per keyswitch. Draw velocity and CC curves with 128-point precision. VCA channels let one CC modulate another.
Articulation Trigger
Define articulation roles (sustain, staccato, pizz, etc.) and assign triggers. filament translates them into the right keyswitch, CC, or program change for each library.
Plugin Hosting
Host up to 64 VST/AU instruments inside one DAW track. Full mixer with articulation maps, latency offset, and macro CC controls.
Deep Preset System
Orchestrations are separate from libraries. Drag and drop setups across keyswitches. Swap libraries without rebuilding your routing.
Midi Out
Three options for getting orchestrated MIDI out of the plugin - direct MIDI out channels, MIDI drag and drop and a direct integration with Musescore to allow the creation of instant scores.
Filament launches today - real-time MIDI orchestration plugin, questions welcome
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- KVRist
- 46 posts since 22 Mar, 2026
Last edited by WillTurnerFLA on Tue Jun 30, 2026 4:29 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- KVRer
- 1 posts since 26 Mar, 2026
Hi Will and the entire Filament team, massive congratulations on the official release of Filament!
I got into orchestral composition entirely thanks to the beta testing opportunity of Filament. Inspired by the workflow here, I just purchased a full orchestral library recently to expand my scoring toolkit.
The £75 beta exclusive perpetual license upgrade looks really attractive to me, but I’ve splashed out a lot on new sample libraries these past few months and can’t afford another software purchase right now.
Could anyone from the dev team let me know how long this discounted beta upgrade price will stay available? I’d love to plan my budget around this offer if there’s a clear deadline.
Thanks a lot for all the hard work on Filament!
I got into orchestral composition entirely thanks to the beta testing opportunity of Filament. Inspired by the workflow here, I just purchased a full orchestral library recently to expand my scoring toolkit.
The £75 beta exclusive perpetual license upgrade looks really attractive to me, but I’ve splashed out a lot on new sample libraries these past few months and can’t afford another software purchase right now.
Could anyone from the dev team let me know how long this discounted beta upgrade price will stay available? I’d love to plan my budget around this offer if there’s a clear deadline.
Thanks a lot for all the hard work on Filament!
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 46 posts since 22 Mar, 2026
Dang! Too right...
I'll update it.-
- KVRian
- 699 posts since 11 Apr, 2006
Is this AI generated? I'm asking because in the last few weeks, tons of plugins generated by AI have appeared and been posted on KVR (especially ones which use JUCE and are hosts of other plugins) with fully working payment flows and websites, and then the person who posted it vanishes shortly after.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 46 posts since 22 Mar, 2026
Thats honestly so awesome! Thanks for testing it and getting so stuck into it. I will speak to the team and drop you a message.bdk201 wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 3:29 pm Hi Will and the entire Filament team, massive congratulations on the official release of Filament!
I got into orchestral composition entirely thanks to the beta testing opportunity of Filament. Inspired by the workflow here, I just purchased a full orchestral library recently to expand my scoring toolkit.
The £75 beta exclusive perpetual license upgrade looks really attractive to me, but I’ve splashed out a lot on new sample libraries these past few months and can’t afford another software purchase right now.
Could anyone from the dev team let me know how long this discounted beta upgrade price will stay available? I’d love to plan my budget around this offer if there’s a clear deadline.
Thanks a lot for all the hard work on Filament!
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 46 posts since 22 Mar, 2026
Nope! We've been building it for about four years and we've just had three months of beta testing to get it really solid. It's very much a labour of love.tumface wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 4:36 pm Is this AI generated? I'm asking because in the last few weeks, tons of plugins generated by AI have appeared and been posted on KVR (especially ones which use JUCE and are hosts of other plugins) with fully working payment flows and websites, and then the person who posted it vanishes shortly after.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 46 posts since 22 Mar, 2026
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drumsynthesizer drumsynthesizer https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=812461
- KVRer
- 3 posts since 30 Jun, 2026
But why does the user interface look so generic, like those other AI-generated (Claude) plugins and apps.
Many plugins look very the same these days (same font, same design etc.), and it's always an indication that AI tools are used.
Many plugins look very the same these days (same font, same design etc.), and it's always an indication that AI tools are used.
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drumsynthesizer drumsynthesizer https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=812461
- KVRer
- 3 posts since 30 Jun, 2026
doubled posted sorry
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 46 posts since 22 Mar, 2026
No worries. So this was I think the 6th iteration of the design.
The design choices actually borrow a lot more from Arturia Pigments if I'm being fully transparent - which I think is a gorgeous interface! This is the light theme for context, it hasn't got the panel structure of Pigments, but a lot of the grey shade in the background is very similar.
A big priority early on was accessibility in the UI, it's a fairly complex interface, so any details became really distracting really quickly. We tried skeumorphic panels, and drop shadow and things like that but threw it all out. The font also had a bolder techy mono style choice early on but in the end we went with Montserrat which is a pretty normal, clear modern web font.
There's this thing called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines which gives strong recommendations for how to make UI's accessible for people with sight difficulties.
In the end we prioritised accessibility and clarity and which maybe left it feeling a bit generic, but honestly I'm okay with that.
Have you got any questions on features or workflow?
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