Arpligner is a multi-track & polyphonic arpeggiator which will use your own arpeggiation patterns. It comes as VST3 & LV2 MIDI plugins and as a standalone application.
- Multi-track: Multiple arpeggiation patterns can play at the same time for a given chord, each one in its own track of your DAW, or on its own MIDI channel,
- Polyphonic: Each step can play several notes of a chord at the same time. “Steps” can also hold over an arbitrary length of time and overlap. So besides arpeggiation per se, you can do strumming or really any kind of “turning a plain block chord into something more interesting”.
To achieve this, Arpligner does very intentionally not come with its own graphical interface for editing patterns. Instead you will feed it arpeggiation patterns as regular (and possibly live) MIDI data. You can thus make use of your DAW piano rool and MIDI sequencing capabilities, play those patterns live, or use an external MIDI sequencer (software or hardware).
Therefore, you can use it as a regular arp, playing your chords against pre-written patterns, or the opposite. Or both can be live data! That would be having two keyboard players: one in charge of the chords and the other one in charge of how to layout those chords.
For more information about usage and how to download the latest builds, please see the documentation here :)