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Instruments • Harmony Bloom by Mario Nieto (MIDI plugin)

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I couldn't find any information about this little gem anywhere and I thought Mario needs a bit of exposure. I highly recommend checking out this little sequencer VSTi/AU plugin. Also available as standalone app!

https://marionietoworld.com/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PcjxtNWucw

NOTE: This is a MIDI Sequencer VSTi / AU plugin and thus doesn't make any sounds itself but I thought I'd add it in the instruments forum because you'll ultimately want to rout it to an instrument and it is a VSTi plugin.

It's currently priced at 29 euros which I feel is very fair for this little gem of a sequencer. It plays extremely well from a MIDI keyboard and literally everything can be controlled by MIDI in real time and it all switches seamlessly and very smoothly. It can generate some fantastic sequences in a matter of seconds and almost every setting yields interesting results.

I hope Mario further refines it and adds some more features to it (I've already contacted the developer and added some ideas) but even if it stays exactly as it is, it's well worth the asking price in my opinion.

Also, there is unfortunately no demo version!. Hopefully he will add one at some point but the price is so fair that if you find the various youtube demos intriguing enough you'll probably find it worth the asking price and wont be disappointed.

Shout out to ZAYNE (ArtEntity), a youtuber with only 761 followers as of this moment, who I happened to stumble upon today. He was playing with this plugin. I immediately had to investigate it and purchased it about 2 hours ago. Been playing with it since then and I'm thoroughly impressed.


These are some things I hope Mario can add at some point:

1) MIDI Velocity control that functions like the rest of the knobs so that you get awesomely spread and interesting variation on velocities. Same with Modwheel and Aftertouch. Also a few custom MIDI CC nodes for the sequencer would be nice when feeding this into various hardware (and software too!).

2) I'd love to see a separate step sequencer portion but not for individual notes, instead it would be for changing the scales, note pool and root note. This separate sequencer could be placed below the main "euclidean" sequencer as a bunch of boxes where you could drag and drop scales and note pools into it. It should also have it's own separate loop length.. which would allow for awesome generative sequences while still being fully controlled and retriggered (if wanted) from MIDI keyboards.

3) I'd love to have control over the starting phase of the euclidean sequencer ring thing. As it is now, it always starts at a predefined position on each MIDI note-on message. Would be super fun if we had full control over this. More control over this would be awesome!

Anyhow, I think this is already a fantastic piece of software as is. It seems very stable running as VST3i on a Mac (in Reaper) and it's very responsive and completely glitch free. Everything can be changed on the fly easily and it results in absolutely fantastic results. If I can stop playing with this thing I'll try to record a few examples later.

Cheers!
bManic

Statistics: Posted by bmanic — Wed Jan 31, 2024 5:55 pm — Replies 0 — Views 27



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