Midi Controller VST Plugins

Introducing Audiomodern Riffer, a smart MIDI sequencer that generates random Riffs for your Sounds, Software & Hardware.

Quick – Fire ideas

You can choose from 50+ scales, pattern complexity, steps, start and end points, set pitch, transpose, motion, measures and many more.

A New Musical Performance Experience

Generate fresh ideas, sequences, melodies, riffs and musical patterns. Turn them into something of your own or let it run endlessly using the infinity mode.

A Swiss Army Knife for MIDI +

You can Export the MIDI Using Drag and Drop, Or when using the app version, you can send MIDI over Wi-Fi, or select CoreMIDI for inter-app communication and to feed any compatible hardware.

Riffer is built both for studio and live performance. Designed to feed anything that accepts MIDI signal.

Intelligent. Reactive. Endlessly Variable and Endlessly Interesting.

Audiomodern Riffer features:

• Generate Random Riffs
• Everything is Synced to your Host tempo
• 53 Scales included from Western to Eastern
• Choose the number of notes generated in the Sequence
• Generate pattern Pitch, Duration & Volume per note
• Tile or Sustain Paused Notes
• Quick-Export MIDI pattern
• Quick Transpose whole pattern
• Choose Quantization settings
• Suffle & Shift Mode
• Infinity Mode
• Sequence Motion Settings
• Choose Number of Steps
• Customizable Sequence Range
• Save & Load your own patterns
• Send MIDI to any Device, Software & Hardware
• No Two Patterns will Ever be the Same
• The only Plugin available of its Kind!

What’s new in version 3.0?

• Multi-Riff/Polyphonic Mode: 4 totally independent piano rolls. (you can also copy one riff to another with drag-n-drop)
• Density Mode: splits a note into 2 – 8 hits/parts (same function we have on Playbeat app achieving the ratchet effect)
• Performance Mode: trigger & transpose the sequence by pressing a key on a midi keyboard , or MIDI input, in real time. (DAW needs to be on ‘Play’ Mode and with MIDI you can control the Playback)
• Preset sharing: sharing presets between devices (desktop to iOS etc)
• MIDI Learn and more.

The Art of Expression

Step Sequencers are an attractive concept. Machines making music. Who could better awake the genie in the machine than Thesys, the drawing board for step-based music creation?

A refined Randomizer is ready, whatever the current situation, to mutate existing material or to bring a new approach on the table.

MAIN FEATURES

• Powerful 32-step MIDI Sequencer
• Pitch Recorder
• Choose and trigger Patterns per MIDI
• Pattern sequencer for longer passages
• Real-time Manipulation of the patterns per keyboard
• Internal Synth
• Vast Randomizer
• Independent Loop lengths for all 5 sequencers
• 18 sequencer lanes
• MIDI Out and Drag ‘n’ Drop

Generate Pitch
The sequences can simply be painted, but with the random generator and the mutate-function you can easily generate patterns on the fly. Or record the pitch straight from your MIDI keyboard. The internal synthesiser saves you lengthy wiring sessions so you can start straightaway.

Start by setting the root note. When using the scales, no out-of-key note will slip through your fingers.

Below the pitch lane, you’ll see the Velocity (volume) and Gate Sequencer (controlling each note’s length). It’s in these top three sections that you’ll spend the most of your time, programming riffs and arpeggios, then assigning them to patterns.

Detailed Per-Step Control
The fourth step window is home to the Performance Sequencer, which is in fact 5 sequencers in one. Each row offers per-step control over Octave, Pitch Bend (with 20 pre-configured shapes), Chord (for polyphonic sequencing), Note Roll and sequence randomisation of a vast range of other cleverly implemented “humanising” elements to your patterns.

The final lane is the CC modulation section: each step accepts a value of 0 to 127, pumped out to a MIDI CC of your choosing. You can actually run several Modulation sequences simultaneously – up to eight – with all of them controlling different CCs.

Some Action in Real-Time
Up to 16 full patterns can be created within a single project. They can can be sequenced within the Pattern Sequencer (bottom right) or triggered via the Keyboard (set to “Pitch”), where the full length of the keyboard is used to transpose the current pattern. Switch to “Performance” and the keyboard is split into 3 zones: Pattern Select, Action Section and a Range for pitch transposing.

The “Action Section” offers 8 effects that can influence the patterns in real time. Choose from Looping, Half-Time, Re-Trigger or a Tempo Break.

Sequencing Magic
The lanes within a single pattern can be set to operate over different lengths. You could have pitches cycling over 16 steps, while velocity cycles over 15 steps and a modulation lane is used to sweep a synth filter over 29 steps.

The end results can yield some fascinating interactions between these different step-cycle lengths and an almost endless evolution of the pattern. If you thought step sequencers were only capable of creating repetitive fixed patterns, think again!

There’s More… Internal Synth for Idea Sketching on the fly & MIDI Export

Yes, Thesys also comes with its own synthesiser, it is perfectly capable and very useful if you just want to develop a few quick ideas.

In its VST2 and AAX versions, Thesys is fully MIDI-out capable. As an Audio Unit, it can be plugged as a MIDI FX to trigger other AUs. In the 1.5.1 Update, we implemented MIDI Export. Just drag and drop from within Thesys to your host or simply save the file to your desktop. Quick and easy!

Send melodies, controller data and program changes. Save patterns to a MIDI file.

No other MIDI sequencer offers you the ease and power of Thesys. It is 100% MIDI compliant – the ultimate MIDI sequencing solution. Use Thesys on your iPad to control multiple apps or external hard- and software!

Blue Cat’s Remote Control is a set of plug-ins which let you control and monitor in real time several MIDI controllable plug-ins or devices from a single customizable user interface: the user interface of your favorite DirectX or VST plugin does not satisfy you?

Your favorite hardware device is too complicated to control? Your project contains hundreds of plug-ins and you would like to control them all from a single user interface? You want undo/redo for all your modifications? This product was designed for you.

The package includes 3 plug-ins: Remote Control 16, 32 and 64, which have the ability to manage up to 16, 32 or 64 parameters. You can assign a MIDI channel and CC number to each controller, customize its response curve. You can as well choose a skin that suits your needs for every instance of the remote control (several skins are included in the package, see the screenshots), or create your own (see the Skins section): this is the best way to create your own user interface to control your entire Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) the way you have chosen. If you have a very specific project and you do not have time to spend on our Skinning Language, Blue Cat Audio can also create custom skins for you: see our Consulting page for more information.

Another way to use the product is for MIDI control remapping and transform: assign an input parameter a given MIDI CC, and assign the associated output parameter to another MIDI CC with different response curve parameters: the plug-in will remap the controller to the new CC and channel with a new response curve.

Main Features:

• Virtual MIDI control surface and monitoring tool.
• Control or monitor in real time any MIDI-controllable plug-in or external MIDI device.
• Customize the controls response curve with advanced settings.
• Create your own Digital Workstation controller thanks to Blue Cat’s Skinning Language.
• MIDI learn.
• Full automation support.
• DirectX and VST formats.
• Undo/Redo.
• Load and Save presets in a host independent format.