Choose the notes
Pick a key and one of 13 scales, or make your own. Give each wall an octave offset, mute it, or set a fixed drum note.
The best idea in a session does not have to be yours.
A MIDI instrument built around moving objects.
- Free
- VST3, AU, AU MIDI FX
- macOS 11+ & Windows 10+
01 / Perform
Play the space.
Click to drop a ball, or drag to throw it. Where it hits a wall chooses the note. How hard it hits sets the velocity. Change the space and the phrase changes with it.
Find the rhythm
Let notes land at the moment of impact, or pull them towards a beat grid. Adjust gravity, bounce and speed to change the pattern.
Keep it moving
Place emitters that throw balls on a beat interval. Mix their rates for interlocking rhythms, or draw lines to send a phrase in a new direction.
Put your hands on it.
Play from a MIDI keyboard: notes choose the drop position, velocity sets the throw, and the channel picks the colour. Automate Speed to slow a phrase down or freeze it in place.
02 / Sculpt
One canvas.
Four voices.
Give each colour its own sound. A bass, a pluck and a pad can all follow different paths through the same space.
The VST3 and AU instrument include a synth for each colour. Shape a voice yourself, or use Dice to try a new sound while the pattern keeps playing.
- Start with a tone
- Two oscillators and a sub, with sine, saw, square and triangle waves.
- Give it a shape
- Low, band and high-pass filtering. Separate amp and filter envelopes.
- Add movement
- A free-running or synced LFO for pitch, cutoff and amplitude.
- Bring it together
- Shared drive, chorus, delay and reverb across the four voices.
03 / Capture
Hear something?
Keep it.
Capture is already running. When a phrase catches your ear, drag the lane into your DAW and make it part of the track.
Choose a rolling window of 8, 16 or 32 bars. Exported MIDI keeps the four colours on separate tracks, ready for editing and your own instruments.
- 01
Let it play
The capture lane collects notes as they happen. No record button to arm.
- 02
Drag the phrase
Grab the lane and drop it onto a MIDI track before it rolls out of the window.
- 03
Make it yours
Edit the notes, swap instruments, or take one colour and build around it.
Save the setup, too.
Kine saves its patch with your project. Share codes carry the physics, scale, walls, lines, emitters and sounds, so you can pass a setup to someone else.
In your session
Your sounds. Your workflow.
- VST3 / AU instrument
- Use the built-in synth, or route MIDI to another instrument where your host supports it. Four channels travel down one MIDI output.
- AU MIDI FX / Kine MFX
- Place Kine MFX in Logic Pro’s MIDI FX slot. It sends MIDI only, so the instrument you load after it supplies the sound.
- MIDI drag-out
- Use the capture lane with a DAW that accepts MIDI-file drops. Live routing is optional.
A few practical things
Does Kine make sound, or do I need another instrument?
The VST3 and AU instrument include a four-part synth. They can also send MIDI to another instrument where your host supports plugin MIDI output. Kine MFX, the AU MIDI FX version, sends MIDI only and needs an instrument after it.
Can I use my own synths and samplers?
Yes. Route Kine's MIDI output to an instrument in your host, or drag the capture lane into a MIDI track. The four colours use channels 1 to 4 on one MIDI output. Splitting colours between instruments live requires routing that can filter by MIDI channel.
What if my DAW does not expose plugin MIDI output?
Use the built-in synth while you play, then drag the capture lane onto a MIDI track in a DAW that accepts MIDI-file drops. In Logic Pro, use Kine MFX in the MIDI FX slot before your instrument for live MIDI.
Does capture keep the whole session?
Capture keeps a rolling window of 8, 16 or 32 bars, rather than a whole session. Older notes leave the window as new ones arrive. Very dense patterns can also fill the note buffer, so drag out a phrase when you want to keep it.
Is there a standalone app?
Kine is a plugin for a DAW or another compatible plugin host. The download does not include a standalone app.
Why do you ask for an email address?
We record your download request with your email address. The download starts in your browser after you submit the form. Newsletter updates are optional and have a separate checkbox.
How do I report a problem?
Email hello@noemaudio.com with your operating system, DAW and its version, the Kine format you loaded, and what happened. Steps to reproduce the problem help us investigate.
Download Kine
VST3, AU and AU MIDI FX. macOS 11+, Windows 10+. 64-bit.
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