What it does
Pieplate sits between your keyboard and your synths. Play a chord, and it splits each note to a different synthesizer — hardware or software, up to 16 of them. Mono synths become a giant polysynth. Each voice gets its own oscillators, filters, envelopes, effects — the works.
I built this because I wanted to play chords across my mono synths without manually duplicating MIDI tracks and routing notes by hand. That’s tedious. Pieplate just does it.
Why it’s fun
Load up 8 different soft synths. Play a C major chord. Each note comes out of a completely different synthesizer with different character. That’s not something a single polysynth can do — it’s a super-synth.
Or point it at hardware. Three mono analog synths sitting on your desk? Now they’re a three-voice poly with per-voice analog filters and envelopes. No compromises.
15 ways to split
Simple polyphonic, round-robin, random, stable voicing that keeps voices in their registers, minimal-movement mode for smooth pad transitions, one-finger chord memory, bass+lead duophonic split, and more. Each mode changes how notes land on voices — pick the one that fits what you’re playing.
A few use cases
- Poly from mono — Turn a rack of mono synths into a chord machine
- Super-synth stacks — 16 different soft synths, one keyboard, every note sounds different
- Evolving pads — Random voice assignment + per-voice reverb/delay = textures that move
- One-finger chords — Capture a voicing, trigger the whole chord from any key
Docs
Quick Start Guide — up and running in 5 minutes (PDF)
Reference Manual — all 15 modes, every setting (PDF)
Requirements
Ableton Live 11 or 12 with Max for Live. Windows and macOS.