MPE Insight

MPE Insight is a real-time performance environment built entirely around MPE (MIDI Polyphonic Expression).

Every gesture from your controller — pressure, pitch, slide, timbre — becomes a live visual signal as you play. Not a visualizer. A performance space where sound and image share the same expressive data stream.

KEY FEATURES

* Full per-note expression tracking: each finger acts as its own control layer, independently shaping visuals through pressure, pitch bend and timbre (CC74)

* 21 real-time Aura visual engines — particles, tunnel, kaleidoscope, contour, DNA, orrery, silk flames, photo swarm, tonewheel and more — switchable instantly without breaking the performance

* CASCADE note-rain: a piano-roll-style rain of notes above the keyboard, driven live by your MPE — and by imported MIDI files with full transport (play, pause, seek, loop, speed). Five combinable render layers (Bars, Particles, Lightning, Code Rain, Plasma), hand-split colouring, impact effects and bloom

* FORGE depth engine: turns any image, video or live webcam feed into a 3D scene you fly through — AI depth, parallax, camera flight, feedback trails, Living World scene styles and a full FX rack (glitch, mosaic, false color, depth of field, fog, infinity spiral), all shaped live by your MPE gestures

* FORGE module feed: route any other module — Aura, CASCADE, the live notation, even several at once, blended — into FORGE and fly through your own visuals in 3D

* FORGE Conductor: a music-driven auto-director that moves the camera in sync with your playing — play hard and it gets bold, play soft and it calms down, stop and the world keeps breathing on its own

* DRIFT processor: turns any ordinary MIDI keyboard into expressive MPE — adds randomized per-note pressure, pitch and timbre motion to incoming notes, so every module reacts as if played on an expressive controller

* 10 modules running simultaneously and freely arrangeable — six analysis modules (piano-roll Keyboard, PB/Mod expression graphs, Expression Overview with four view modes, Note Timeline, MIDI Stream Log and live Grand Staff notation), the three visual engines (Aura, CASCADE, FORGE), plus the DRIFT processor

* Full MPE recording with tempo-aware export to MIDI and CSV for DAW integration

* Lead-sheet export: turn any recorded take into sheet music — a paginated grand staff with chord symbols, engraved straight from your performance and saved as a single PNG

* Modular, freely arrangeable workspace — resize and rearrange every module into your own layout, and open multiple instances of a module at once

* 86 built-in presets for instant results: 48 Aura looks across all 21 engines, 20 CASCADE scenes and 18 FORGE scenes — load one, then tweak and save your own

* Three-tier snapshot system: unlimited, reorderable Global Snapshot playlists (full app state, exportable/importable as one file), plus dedicated Aura and per-module snapshots

* MIDI Learn: assign a Note, CC (pedal), or Program Change to flip through your Global Snapshots hands-free during a live set

* Built-in Demo Mode with full MPE simulation: explore every module without a controller connected

* Full MPE recording with tempo-aware export to MIDI and CSV for DAW integration

* Live MIDI output: play visuals directly via mouse/touch, or forward incoming MIDI through to another device

* Per-channel filtering and MIDI Clock/BPM sync for tight integration with the rest of your setup

* Multiple MIDI devices active at once, auto-detected on connect