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Use your audio plugins.

Your favorite instruments and effects, played, automated and driven by anything.

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Things to make
the plugin manager, listing the CLAP and VST3 plugins found on this machine
the plugin manager, listing the CLAP and VST3 plugins found on this machine
01

Play your favorite plugin synth

Played from a keyboard, tweaked in its own window.

  1. Pick the plugin from the list.
  2. Play it from your keyboard.
  3. Open its own window to tweak.
MidiNoteIn→PluginHost→AudioPlaybackInterface
Dexed, a free synth plugin, playing chords in the app, with Open Plugin GUI to bring up its own window
Dexed, a free synth plugin, playing chords in the app, with Open Plugin GUI to bring up its own window
02

Make a plugin wobble

You can wire any plugin setting. Put an LFO on it.

  1. Load the plugin.
  2. Pick a setting.
  3. Drag an LFO onto it.
ChannelDataLFO→PluginHost→AudioPlaybackInterface
an LFO wired to the Cutoff setting of the Dexed plugin, opening and closing the sound as it sweeps
03

Build a vocal chain

Your compressor, then your reverb, with the dry voice mixed back in.

  1. Load the first effect.
  2. Load the second after it.
  3. Mix in the dry voice.
AudioCaptureInterface→PluginHost→PluginHost→AudioMixer
a voice through two plugin effects in a row, with the dry voice mixed back in
a voice through two plugin effects in a row, with the dry voice mixed back in
04

Run a plugin you do not trust

If it crashes, the plugin goes down, not the show.

  1. Turn on the sandbox for the plugin.
  2. It runs in its own process.
  3. Keep playing if it falls over.
AudioCaptureInterface→PluginHost→AudioPlaybackInterface
Dexed with Use isolation on, running in its own process and still playing
Dexed with Use isolation on, running in its own process and still playing
05

Play a plugin with your hand

Your hand height moves a plugin setting.

  1. Track your hand.
  2. Drag its height onto a setting.
  3. Play.
the graph it makes
PERFORMLocalAIImageToHandKeypoints PLAYPluginHost PLAYAudioPlaybackInterface
Take it further

It all connects.

Every part of Kinematic works with the others. Wire one into the next.

Play

Mix with your own patches

Plugins next to synths you built yourself.

AudioWavetable→PluginHost→AudioMixer
Show me →Perform

Plugins on stage

The same plugins play in a locked-down show.

PluginHost→Timeline
Show me →Play

Plugin sound to picture

The plugin's output bends a mesh.

PluginHost→AudioEnvelopeFollower→3DGeoDisplaceByChannelData
Show me →
Keep going
← PreviousMIDIPlay and sequence MIDI.
Plugin hosting guide, under Help in the app→Browse the Play demos→Coming from Reaktor?→

Free and open. Yours, forever.

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