D3CK has released Middi Morphy, a freeware MIDI preset morpher.

Middi Morphy is a VST tool to interpolate between different MIDI parameter settings.

you can set up scenes of parameter setting, each may represent presets of your synth or fx, and then morph between the scenes on a 2d pane.

Middy Morphy has auto-learn and auto-key. When the plug-in gets MIDI input data, the corresponding controllers will be added and a scene gets created at cursor position.

Middy Morphy is available as freeware for Windows PC. D3CK appreciates donation so he can get a JUCE license in order to further develop Middy Morphy.

Visit the Middy Morphy page for more information.

Rough Diamond Productions has released two new VST plug-ins for Windows PC: granulOSO (v0.5 beta), a granular sample masher, and studioCLOCK, a free plug-in which tells the time.

As well as synth primitives, granulOSO can be coaxed into lo-fi timestretching with degree of stretch, and grain size adjustable on the fly. Whilst doing this, granulOSO uses a mono trigger with polyphonic pitch so each new note’s samples join in rather than start again so it can be used as a gnarly harmonizer.

granulOSO features

• Mono or 6 note Poly.
• 3 loop modes.
• ADSR Envelope.
• 4 LFOs [1 each of triangle, ramp, saw and square].
• LFOs are freely assignable to modulate pitch, detune, coarse loop points and fine loop points.
• Dual waveform displays with zoom.
• Plays 16 or 24 bit wave files [32/44.1/48/88.2/96k].
• Includes example source material and 8 presets.

Rough Diamond Productions has also announced the release of version 1.0 of autoBED (lookahead ducker with sidechain input), baddASS (bass drum fortification device), and sideGATE (lookahead flexigate).

Until August 1^st, a bundle of these three plug-ins are available at an introductory price of £25 GBP, a savings of £10 GBP.

The current beta version of granulOSO (and other beta plug-ins) is free for personal use, or donationware (minimum of £5 GBP) for commercial use.

Visit Rough Diamond Productions for more information.

algomusic.com has released MaxScore, a music notation tool for the Max/MSP environment.

MaxScore is a Max object which accepts messages that can create a score, add notes to it, transform them, perform it, save and load the score, as well as export the score to popular formats for professional publishable results.

MaxScore’s Setup Score help patch

MaxScore features

• Play back a score and drive your MSP patches through a well-defined instrument interface.
• Created and modify scores in real-time.
• Add notes explicitly by specifying durations and pitches, or use Max to generate an arbitrary stream of musical events and use MaxScore’s Transcriber to notate them automatically.
• Exports to MusicXML so you can load your scores into Finale and Sibelius. Also exports to the GNU LilyPond automated engraving system.

A manual for MaxScore is available for download in PDF format.

MaxScore, commissioned by “Bipolar - German-Hungarian Cultural Projects” (an initiative of the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany), was programmed in Java Music Specification Language by Nick Didkovsky. While MaxScore is freely available to the public, it requires a JMSL license to run (available at AlgoMusic).

Visit algomusic.com for more information and links to download MaxScore for Windows and Mac.

Wusik has announced that the previously commercially released WVM VST Manager/Organizer is now freely available under an open source license.

Wusik VM allows you to organize presets of various VST plug-ins in one place.

You can now categorize your presets any way you like. When loading a preset in Wusik VM it will automatically open the correct VST plug-in.

Wusik VM also includes 2 Midi-Tools:

1. Arpeggiator, an adjustable speed arpeggiator.
2. Melody, a MIDI chord creation tool.

Note: Wusik VM uses custom-changed files from the Steinberg’s VST SDK Library, which is not open-source. You’ll need to get access to Steinberg’s VST SDK before you can use the Wusik Support/Login area to request a copy of the source files.

Visit Wusik for more information and a link to download Wusik VM.