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A gift for Apple Silicon users: pizmidi plugins!


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I happened onto a thread in the Plogue Bidule forum regarding these plugins. They were abandoned years ago and never made it to the MacOS 64-bit transition, meaning you had to be on MacOS Mojave (6 years old at this writing) or earlier to use them. Apparently the source code is out there, and a user on the Bidule forum (boonier) did a quick compile for Apple SIlicon. I present them here with these caveats: 1) NOT TESTED, 2) Apple Silicon ONLY - not Intel, not "Universal", 3) NOT TESTED. For reasons beyong my pay grade to understand, these are now all VST3s. There are 18 plugins in this archive.

 

Back in the days of my old MacBook Pro running Mojave, I only used one of these pizmidi plugins: "midichords." This was unfinished, with a funky UI and some quirks that made the learning curve a little steeper than it needed to be - but it was powerful, with features I couldn't find on any other Apple SIlicon-native (or even Intel 64-bit) plugin. I loaded this new AS version into my current Bidule on my M2 MacBook Air running Ventura (13.6.9) and it seems to work fine - though I will of course test further before bringing it to the stage. At the moment I'm using a plugin called Ripchord, which works OK but doesn't have nearly the features midichords has.

 

The .zip is attached here. I hope someone finds these useful! There was a doc file associated with these which not in this .zip - but it wasn't much to begin with, just very short descriptions of each plugin. If you used these plugins in days gone by you might even still have this file somewhere. Otherwise, a google search should turn it up.

pizmidi-2.0.0-Darwin.zip

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I used midichords to play one-finger horn section stuff to fatten up the two saxes on AWB gigs (I'm playing chords on a rhodes patch with my left hand). The "strum" feature is great for making it sounds realistic – I dial in a tiny amount of spread between the notes, it really helps.

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