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Big Clock
Bars/beats/ticks, hours/minutes/seconds/frames, or samples counter for VST hosts. Use it if your host's counter is the wrong color, or isn't big enough. Bigger is better. This is resizable, and you can select the background color. Left-click to change type, right-click for options. Now supports (I think) 29.97 fps drop-frame time. Sample-accurate up to one hundred billion hours at 44100 Hz.
(Windows VSTi / Windows VST (effect version))
Blood Bucket 1.0
Another pointless experiment in synthetic stupidity.
(Windows VST, 511k)
Blood Bucket thread at KvR forum
Review Blood Bucket at KvR
cc stepper
Un-smooths incoming CC data, synchronized with the host.
(Windows VST, 893k)
cpuram
Displays system CPU load and free physical memory.
(Windows VST)
Harsh Digital Nose 1.0
Made for the KVR Developer Challenge 2009.
Plays two images (very poorly) as oscillator waveforms. The brightness of each pixel, starting at the top left, sets the amplitude of each sample.
Load images (png, jpg, gif) by drag & drop. Also converts wav files (32-bit float, 65536 samples long) to images by drag & drop.
(Get it at KVR)
illogic 1.0
Uses simulated digital logic to make itself sound bad. Don't play too many high notes or your computer will explode.
(Windows VST, 502k)
image
Displays an image, and optionally a line of text. Resizable. Load images (png/jpg/gif/svg) with drag & drop. Supports program change.
(Windows VST, 443k)
JunkMaster 1.0
Sounds like junk. Combines digital logic with extreme pitch modulation. Same old square "knobs."
(Windows VST, 491k)
JunkMaster thread at KvR forum
midiKeyboard
Resizable piano keyboard to monitor/play midi notes.
(Windows VST)
(OS X VST)
midiMonitor
Resizable, scrollable midi monitor. can save log as text or midi file. loads default settings from "midiMonitor.fxp" in the same directory as the plugin.
(Windows VST)
(OS X VST)
midiOut
Sends midi directly to an output port.
(Windows VST)
(Mac OS X VST)
midiPads
1 to 64 buttons/sliders/XY-pads that send learnable midi messages, with resizable GUI. Very configurable. Each pad can optionally show an svg/png/jpg/gif image (drag & drop to load images). The default ones are ugly, so make your own.
Now also included as an integrated plugin in Jost, the open-source multi-technology linux plugin host!
(Windows VST / 1-Program version (fast-loading))
Mr. Alias 1.02
Now you can easily play a variety of harsh, dissonant tones. The controls are labeled by tooltips; no further explanation should be needed. Note: don't use this. It's bad. (Listen)
1.02: Really fixed denormal problem
1.01: Fixed denormal problem?
(Windows VST, 721k)
Mr. Alias thread at KvR forum
Review Mr. Alias at KvR
Mr. Alias 2.02
Though it is based on the same concept as the original, Mr. Alias 2 is completely rewritten for cross-platform compatibility, and has a number of significant improvements. (Listen)
Download includes user's manual. Source code is available separately. More info here.
(Windows VST)
(Mac OS X VST)
(Mac OS X AU)
(Linux VST)
Mr. Alias Pro
The "professional" version of Mr. Alias 2, with more features and a better-sounding GUI. More info here.
piz midi plugins
This is a collection of cross-platform midi VST plugins that I'm currently working on.
midi16CCRouter - Changes up to 16 CCs to 16 other CCs.
midi2qwerty16 - Use MIDI to trigger fake keystrokes to the focused window.
midiAudioToCC - Converts audio amplitude to CC messages.
midiCCModulator - Use one CC to modulate another CC (or note velocity) in various ways: add/subtract/multiply/etc, plus logic gates (AND, NAND, XNOR, etc).
midiCCReset - Remembers CC values and sends them out again at selected times.
midiCCStepper - Quantize CC events by value or in time.
midiCCToggle - For changing momentary CC buttons into toggles.
midiChannelize - Transforms everything to the selected channel.
midiChs_noGUI - Channel filter/changer like energyXT1 "MIDI chs" component.
midiConverter2 - Change and convert between CC, Channel Pressure, Poly Aftertouch, Program Change, Pitch Bend, NRPN/RPN, and Note On/Off messages in various ways.
midiDelay - Delay notes and/or CCs with feedback.
midiDuplicateBlocker - Remembers all MIDI message values it gets on each channel, and blocks any repeated values until a different value is received.
midiExactDelay - Simple delay (no dry signal, no feedback) with flexible and precise delay time.
midiFingered - Selectively sends standard portamento on/off CC messages to emulate "fingered portamento" for synths that don't have it.
midiForceToKey - Enforces a scale, and transposes within the scale (optionally based on MIDI notes on a selected channel).
midiForceToRange - Transposes notes by octave into the selected range.
midiInvertNotes - "Mirrors" notes centered around the selected note.
midiKeySplit - Simple keyboard splitter.
midiNotchFilter - Isolate, remove, or channelize specific MIDI messages.
midiNotesToCC - Converts note number and velocity to CC messages.
midiNoteToggle - Notes (optionally within a selected range and/or channel) are toggled... play a note once to turn it on, play it again to turn it off.
midiNRPNConverter - Converts between NRPN/RPN and CC messages, with 16 conversion slots.
midiPolyphony - For spreading polyphony across MIDI channels, i.e. if you play 4 notes, each one will go to a different channel. Polyphony per channel can be set from 1 to 16 notes for more flexibility. You can also use it to convert polyphonic input to monophonic output.
midiProbability - Add probability-based effects to incoming MIDI events, optionally synced to host timeline.
midiProgramChange - Send Program Change and/or Bank Select messages.
midiSimpleLFO - One CC LFO with some "simple" options.
midiSostenuto - Like a piano sostenuto pedal, but for MIDI notes instead of piano dampers.
midiStrum - Sequentially delays notes of an input chord to simulate strumming.
midiStuckNoteKiller - Sends note-off messages to end hanging notes when the host stops (for hosts that don't do this themselves).
midiSwing - Delays and/or offsets velocity of and applies probability to notes (and optionally also CCs) at every other step of a selected note value.
midiVelocityScale - Scale/reverse/offset velocity of input notes (Note On and/or Note Off).
I'll put more information here soon, but for now, see the thread at KVR.
(Windows VST) (Linux VST) (Mac OS X VST)
randomid 1.0
Generates random MIDI notes in "real time." Adjustable pitch and velocity center/range, note length, and so on. Totally useless?
(Windows VST, 573k)
Robot Juice 1.0
Extreme pitch envelopes and modulation for unpredictably stupid sounds. Has a "weird" pitch button that changes the intonation of the keyboard. This may be used in "upcoming" Piz songs, which means the future, which hasn't happened yet.
(Windows VST, 495k)
yarkor 1.0
This is kind of like "Robot Juice" but perhaps more organized and less unpredictable. But it does have more controls. By the way, don't download any of these. Get SynthEdit and make your own.
(Windows VST, 501k)
