A real-time performance system for expressive MIDI and MPE data.
Every key becomes an independent stream of continuous expression — pressure, pitch, velocity, and gesture. MPE INSIGHT translates this data into modular visual and structural behaviors in real time.
A performance environment for designing sound and image from the same expressive input.
Currently in development.
The Architecture of Expression
MPE Insight splits complex gesture mapping into independent, highly reactive layers. Instead of rendering static readouts, it transforms touch into architecture.
Aura
Aura is one visual output layer of the MPE INSIGHT system, translating expressive data into dynamic visual structures. It listens to pressure, glide, pitch bend, timbre (CC74) and velocity on every active note and turns them into one continuous shape — bars, rings, particles, or a flythrough tunnel.
Because MPE tracks each finger on its own thread, Aura translates independent physical gestures into decoupled visual movements in real time.
Built around what MPE actually sends.
Not a generic MIDI monitor with a coat of paint — every module maps to a real, continuous stream your controller is already producing.
Twelve structural styles
Rings, particles, a flythrough tunnel, DNA, kaleidoscope and more — switch engine profiles fluidly without disrupting the underlying gesture data stream.
Every note, its own thread
MPE gives each finger its own channel. The system tracks polyphonic data per note — two fingers bending opposite ways move independent engine components parameters.
Calibrated to your hardware
Set Pitch Bend Range to match your controller — a one-semitone slide reads as precisely as a two-octave dive, maintaining modular scaling integrity.
Color is data, not decoration
Pick input pairs and watch velocity, pressure, and timbre blend between them live across structural engine transformations — never a fixed palette.
High-fidelity MIDI core
Every node transformation traces back to a real message — channel, controller number, value, timestamp — right there if you need to inspect the data health.
Presets that teach
Twelve structural starting points show what each control engine actually does, so routing your own setup begins from a foundation that makes sense.
Six styles, the same five signals.
A glimpse into how the Aura visual module reinterprets real-time continuous performance data into distinct algorithmic signatures.
Works with the controllers that send the data.
MPE Insight speaks standard MIDI Polyphonic Expression over Web MIDI — no custom drivers or wrapper plugins required.
Don't see yours? Any class-compliant MPE controller works — MPE Insight reads the standard per-channel MIDI messages, not a vendor-specific protocol.
A standalone environment — coming soon.
MPE Insight is in active development as a native standalone application. Leave your email to receive an invite the moment early access opens.