MIDISketch Guides

DAW Setup

Getting MPE out of MIDISketch and into your host: routing, pitch bend range 48, and the quirks that matter.

FL StudioFL has no native MPE. Host your synth inside MIDISketch and draw per-note bends anyway.Ableton LiveLive 11+ MPE tracks, routing, and where the bend range has to match.Logic ProMIDISketch MIDI FX on your synth's track, plus the instrument version.REAPERVST3 or CLAP, per-note bend routing, and REAPER-specific quirks.Bitwig StudioThe CLAP build, per-note bends for Polymer and Bitwig's own devices, and MIDI FX.Pro ToolsNative AAX for Windows and macOS, the install steps, and how to get expression into a session.

Synth Setup

How to set up Serum 2, Vital and every other synth MIDISketch knows: MPE on and bend range 48, or Pitch Wheel mode for synths without MPE.

Quick Tips

One thing each, under a minute. Tap to play.

Feel part of your DAWThe playback and Space settings that make MIDISketch follow your DAW instead of sitting on top of it.

Turn an equation into MIDIType a formula and hear it play as notes, live as you edit it.

More on YouTube Shorts.

Full Beta Walkthroughs

Long-form video, start to finish, recorded on the beta builds.

MIDISketch v0.9.9 Full Walkthrough LATESTThe whole v0.9.9 release start to finish: navigation and playhead work, polyphonic trigger stabilisation, and everything else that landed.

I Fixed the Piano Roll (v0.9.7)The v0.9.7 breakdown: CC automation lanes, the spectral analyser, the arpeggiate tool, and the changes that came with them.

More walkthroughs, going back to v0.3, are on YouTube.

Deep Dives

Written guides on one thing at a time: pitch points and beziers, expression lanes, LFOs, tuning, chops and stamps.