Fluid Pitch is a powerhouse pitch-bending plugin that promises “3 superpowers” for your MIDI keyboard.
Make your pitch bend wheel smarter by adding scale-locking and MPE-style capabilities
If your pitch bend wheel isn’t currently giving you the level of flexibility that you’d like, Pitch Innovations’ Fluid Pitch could be the MIDI plugin for you.
Designed to make your wheel smarter, this promises to give it “three superpowers”, and to add MPE-style control to any MIDI keyboard.
First up, there’s scale-locked pitch-bending, designed to ensure that your bends will always stay in key. You can choose from a variety of scale types and customise them by activating and deactivating certain notes, just as you would in an automatic tuning plugin.
You can adjust the range of the pitch-bending, too, making real-time adjustments to this using a dedicated mobile app, a foot pedal or a key switch.
Pitch Innovations is also billing Fluid Pitch as an ‘MPE upscaling plugin’ that can “transform any MIDI keyboard into an MPE device”. What this means in practice is that you can enjoy polyphonic pitch-bending via the pitch bend wheel, and simulate MPE’s pressure control using aftertouch.
You can change the functionality of your pitch bend wheel, too - so that bends don’t affect the next note you play, for example - and it’s also possible to micro tune individual notes.
Read the full review over at MusicRadar.com
