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Overview
| Name | Version: | Pie Plate - MIDI Chord Splitter 1.0 |
| Author: | AnalogDessert |
| Device Type: | MIDI Effect |
| Description: | Pie Plate is a MIDI voice router with many modes and options, the main one I developed it for was stable, chord-aware voice assignment. I built this because free MIDI splitters usually route notes by arrival order. When your fingers play a chord, the lowest note doesn’t always hit first, so the same chord shape can end up scattered across different synths every time you play it. That makes consistent layered sounds, pads, super-synth stacks, and monosynths behaving like a poly basically impossible. Pie Plate can lock the assignment by pitch instead. The lowest note of the chord always goes to Synth 1, the middle note to Synth 2, the highest note to Synth 3, and so on. Same chord, same routing, every time. Pie Plate revoices on note-off as well as note-on, with count-safe release tracking, so releasing one voice doesn’t shuffle the others. But that's not all: 15 routing modes: * Simple Poly: first free voice, steals oldest if full * Poly Shape Stable: sorted by pitch, fully stable across releases * Stack All: every voice plays the same note, unison-style * Chord Position: positional voicing with optional play-order sorting * Round Robin: forward, ping-pong, and reverse * Key/Velocity Zones * Random: pure, no-repeat, low-bias, and high-bias * Chord Memory: capture a chord, trigger it from one finger * Minimal Movement: smooth voice leading for sustained pads * Legato Duophonic: lowest = bass, highest = lead What it solves: * Turn monosynths into a real polysynth where each voice has its own filter, envelope, drive, and FX * Build evolving pads where every note has its own modulation personality * Create consistent chord voicings across stacks of soft synths * Make bass and lead duophonic splits with musical retrigger behavior * Fix the release-trigger bug in basic splitters: releasing one note no longer shuffles the others Up to 16 voices, each on its own track. Includes count-safe release tracking, a configurable settle window for cleaner chord attacks, and panic/mode-switch safety so switching modes mid-performance doesn’t leave hung notes. Requirements: Ableton Live 11 or 12 with Max for Live. Windows or macOS. Price: $19. Includes the main router device, 16 satellite voice devices, and full PDF documentation: Quick Start Guide + Reference Manual. |
Details
| Live Version Used: | 12.0.5 |
| Max Version Used: | 8.6.2 |
| Date Added: | May 01 2026 03:50:25 |
| Date Last Updated: | May 01 2026 15:42:03 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
| Website: | https://analogdessert.com/downloads/pie-plate-midi-chord-splitter-router/ |
| ⓘ License: | Commercial |
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