AU Midi Generator List
The following list gathers AU plugins that generate midi, there are several general types of midi generating plugins:
- Keyboards or controller surfaces, mostly MPE but they can be put in non-mpe mode (KB-1, Velocity Keyboard)
- Midi modifiers like Autony, Cality, Midi Echo, Mozaic, StreamByter
- Pattern / Sequence generators (Rozeta, Atom, StepBud, Fugue, Photon)
- Instruments that also output midi (if MPE they need to support non-mpe modes) (Pure Acid, Ruismaker Noir, Hammerhead, Geoshred, iFretless Bass)
- Audio to midi generation like FAC Envolver
The column Output Channel lists the plugins ability to specify the midi output channel and the column State Save shows if the midi output channel is correctly recalled(*). Both features are essential for multi midi input processing plugin routing.
(*) Several plugins had problems saving their channel setting when this list was created
.
| Developer | APP | Version | Date | Output Channel | State Save | Info | Message | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aphelian Labs | Aphelian | . | 1.2.0 | 26.11.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Generative Midi Sequencer and Arp | |||
| Cem Olcay | ArpBud 2 - AUv3 MIDI Arpeggiator | . | 1.6 | 14.11.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Victor Porof | Atom Piano Roll | . | 1.0.1 | 12.04.2019 |  | ➖ | Always uses channel 1 | |||
| Victor Porof | Atom Piano Roll 2 | . | 2.0.1 | 15.03.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Abigail Macfarlane | Autony | . | 1.30 | 13.05.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Abigail Macfarlane | Cality | . | 1.4 | 13.05.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Cem Olcay | ChordBud 2 - AUv3 MIDI Sequencer | . | 2.3.2 | 18.10.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Audiomodern Eood | ChordJam | . | 1.0.1 | 25.05.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Laurent Colsone | ChordPolyPad | . | 2.0.3 | 19.10.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Corne Driesprong | Cykle | . | 1.3 | 17.04.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| BeepStreet | Drambo | . | 1.3 | 17.04.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | Modular Synth including midi fx & generator | |||
| Sugar Bytes | DrumComputer | . | 1.0 | 05.11.2020 | | ➖ | Drum Synth with midi-out on channel 1 | |||
| 4 Pockets | Euclidean AUv3 Sequencer | . | 1.0 | 27.01.2022 | ✔ | ✔ | Euclidean rhythms and arps | |||
| Frederic Corvest | FAC Envolver | . | 2.2 | 05.06.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Envelop follower with midi output | |||
| Alexandernaut | Fugue Maschine : MIDI Sequencer | . | 1.5.16 | 18.10.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Wizdom Music | GeoShred | . | 4.2.10 | 14.09.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Mainly an instrument, but generates MPE midi. A setup with non mpe mode correctly stores the channel | |||
| 4 Pockets | Helium AUv3 MIDI Sequencer | . | 1.2.1 | 14.07.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Mani Consulting Limited | iFretless Bass | . | 1.4.29 | 01.06.2021 | | ➖ | Mainly an instrument, but generates MPE midi. The non-mpe modes don't allow to use the channel selector like in the standalone. | ⛳️ FR send 24.07.2019 | ||
| Mani Consulting Limited | iFretless Brass | . | 4.0.12 | 29.04.2021 | | ➖ | Mainly an instrument, but generates MPE midi. The non-mpe modes don't allow to use the channel selector like in the standalone. | ⛳️ FR not yet send | ||
| Abigail Macfarlane | Ioniarics | . | 1.0 | 22.09.2019 | ➖ | ➖ | Outputs its polyrhytmic arps on the incomming channel. | |||
| Kai Aras | KB-1 Keyboard Suite | . | 1.3 | 20.01.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | There is a channel mixup and bad sysex in some modes | 👾 BR send 28.02.2021 | ||
| Imaginando Lda | LK | . | 1.8.2 | 19.10.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | Midi Note+CC Matrix Sequencer, Pads, Keys | |||
| Cem Olcay | LoopBud - AUv3 MIDI Recorder | . | 1.3 | 14.03.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | Recorder and Looper | |||
| Nikolozi Meladze | Mela 3 – Synth, FX & MIDI | . | 1.0 | 20.03.2022 | ? | ? | Arpeggiator, transpose, velocity humanization and keyboard Can not test. From the manual it doesn't seem to have midi channel settings, so it probably send on channel 1 | |||
| Cem Olcay | MelodyBud - Generative Sequencer | . | 1.2.1 | 29.12.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | Generative midi | |||
| Arthur Kerns | midiDREAMS | . | 1.0 | 20.02.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | Midi step and drum sequencer | |||
| Anthony Saunders | Midi Echo AU | . | 1.0.4 | 08.05.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Arthur Kerns | midiLFOs | . | 3.0 | 01.09.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | 4 CC-LFOs with cross modulation support | |||
| Arthur Kerns | midiSTEPS | . | 3.0 | 06.09.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | Midi step sequencer | |||
| 4 Pockets | MIDI Strummer | . | 1.0.5 | 15.10.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | Midi Chord Strummer, also works as instrument with buildin soundfonts support | |||
| Uwyn LLC | MIDI Tape Recorder | . | 1.0.1 | 28.12.2021 | ➖ | ✔ | MPE recorder and looper (output channel does not apply) | |||
| Victor Porof | Midi Tools | . | 1.2 | 29.01.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Midi utilities including midi channel manipulation | |||
| mifki Limited | miRack | . | 3.5.3 | 18.10.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | Modular Synth including midi fx & generator | |||
| Achilleas Sourlas | mLFO | . | 1.0 | 26.01.2022 | ✔ | ✔ | 16 CC-LFOs | |||
| Brambos | Mononoke Pads | . | 1.1 | 28.01.2020 | ➖ | ✔ | MPE pads (output channel does not apply) | |||
| Brambos | Mozaic Plugin Engine | . | 1.3.2 | 17.11.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Midi event scripting | |||
| Markus Teufel | Octachron | . | 1.1.0 | 22.01.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Dimos Gaidatzis | Pen2Bow | . | 1.1.1 | 01.02.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | CC generator | |||
| Antony Saunders | Photon | . | 1.0.1 | 17.04.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Midi Recorder and Midi File Player | |||
| Rodrigo Roman | Physicle Bouncy | . | 1.0.2 | 03.01.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Rodrigo Roman | Physicle Gravity | . | 1.0.2 | 03.01.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Audiomodern Eood | Playbeat | . | 2.3.3 | 24.03.2021 |  | ➖ | No AU Midi support yet, can only send to midi ports | 👾 BR send 11.11.2021 ❗️ | ||
| Audiomodern Eood | Playbeat 3 | . | 1.0.1 | 13.11.2021 | | ➖ | No AU Midi support yet, can only send to midi ports | 👾 BR send 11.11.2021 ❗️ | ||
| James Milton | Poly 2 | . | 1.2.1 | 25.11.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Generative Midi | |||
| Corne Driesprong | polybeat | . | 1.1.1 | 27.10.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | Polyrhythmic drum sequencer | |||
| Anthony Saunders | Polythemus AU | . | 1.2 | 30.03.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Laurent Colson | QuantiChord | . | 1.1.6 | 20.11.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Audiomodern Eood | Riffer | . | 3.0 | 07.12.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Brambos | Rozeta Sequencer Suite | . | 1.3.1 | 28.10.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Arp, Bassline, Cells, Collider, Particle, X0X, Rhythm, LFO and XY | |||
| Cem Olcay | RhythmBud - AUv3 MIDI FX | . | 1.3.1 | 29.05.2021 | | ➖ | The stand-alone can select output channels, but not the AUv3 | ⛳️ FR send 09.11.2019 | ||
| Cem Olcay | ScaleBud - AUv3 MIDI Keyboard | . | 1.7.1 | 17.11.2020 | | ➖ | The stand-alone can select output channels, but not the AUv3 | ⛳️ FR send 09.11.2019 | ||
| Cem Olcay | SnakeBud - MIDI Sequencer | . | 1.0 | 03.06.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Sebastian Arnold | Senode | . | 1.3.1 | 20.03.2022 | ✔ | ✔ | Generative Node Step Sequencer | |||
| Cem Olcay | StepBud - AUv3 MIDI Sequencer | . | 1.5.0 | 07.01.2020 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Laurent Colson | StepPolyArp Unit | . | 4.1.12 | 26.11.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Audeonic Apps | StreamByter | . | 1.6 | 22.10.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | Midi event scripting | |||
| Sugar Bytes | Thesys | . | 1.3.8 | 13.10.2021 | | ➖ | Midi Sequencer. The stand-alone can select output channels, but not the AUv3 | ⛳️ FR not yet send | ||
| Bryce Hostetler | Tonality: Piano/Guitar Chords (Pads AUv3) | . | 8.6.3 | 16.05.2021 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Mani Consulting Limited | Velocity Keyboard | . | 1.2.8 | 31.10.2019 | | ➖ | MPE works, but non-mpe modes don't allow to use the channel selector like in the standalone. | ⛳️ FR send 24.07.2019 | ||
| Seven Systems | Xequence AU : Keys | . | 1.0 | 24.02.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Seven Systems | Xequence AU : Pads | . | 1.1 | 03.03.2019 | ✔ | ✔ | ||||
| Ryan Robinson | ZOA - Living MIDI Sequencer | . | 1.0.1 | 12.11.2021 | | ➖ | Always sends on channel 1 | ⛳️ FR not yet send | ||
| Summary | AU midi generators: | 61 | thereof | ✔48 | ✔50 | with working output channel and state save | ⛳️3 👾3 |
Table Legend
- Plugins with bold name still have problems regarding midi output channel
- Output Channel: ✔ ok , no support yet , problems , ➖ not available
- State Save: ✔ ok , problems , ➖ not available
- Message Icons: 👾 BR bug report, ⛳️ FR feature request
How to contribute
Please add midi generating plugins that are not yet in the list, or update their state if they got an update and the problem is fixed.
Setup a session containing the test candidate, search for the output channel config, change channel to something other than its default and save the session. On session reload, open up the output settings and if it shows the previously set number, everything is fine.
For MPE generating plugins you first need to find out, if you can set it up in single channel poly or mono mode and then select the output channel.