MPE Insight
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MPE Insight

A real-time MPE performance environment. Pressure, pitch bend and timbre drive 21 live AURA visual engines, CASCADE note-rain and the FORGE depth engine, plus keyboard, staff and expression analysis modules. Not a visualizer: a space where sound and image share one data stream.

DEV: Christophe KalkauPUB: Christophe KalkauAppID 4919520
UPDATE PULSEevery ~9d·last 20d ago·8 recent on record

Is MPE Insight still being updated? — the short answer, with the evidence.

Should you look into this?

From Steam's own record

Current price

$34.99

Development

Actively supported

Last heard from developers

19 days ago

Usual rhythm

every ~10 days

Substantial updates (6 mo)

0

Current silence

within normal range

The developers post roughly every 10 days and were last heard 19 days ago — within their normal range. Nothing we would call a substantial update has landed in six months, though the developers have posted 8 times.

Two years of development

■ substantial ■ routine

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8 announcements · 0 substantial · 21 months with nothing

Recent Transmissions

8 entries in codex

Community AnnouncementsSep 14, 2026
Hotkeys: play a key, press a key

New: Hotkeys, next to MIDI In and MIDI Out in the toolbar.Your MIDI notes and controllers now press real computer keys in whatever app is in front.A new Hotkeys panel sits next to MIDI In and MIDI Out. Play your computer keyboard with MIDI,…

Community AnnouncementsSep 13, 2026
DRIFT, lane for lane

DRIFT in the window is now the plugin The DRIFT module and the MPE Drift plugin ran on the same idea with different engines. 3.0 closes that gap: the module in the window is now the plugin, lane for lane. Strum, arpeggiator ratchet and scal…

Community AnnouncementsSep 2, 2026
Smoke, glass and a black hole

Smoke, glass and a black hole AURA gains three new styles, and Tunnel was rebuilt from the ground up. Smoke breathes a fine ribbon out of every note's pitch column on a real fluid simulation rather than particles. A hard strike blows a circ…

Community AnnouncementsAug 19, 2026
Take the picture apart, and fly through it

Take the picture apart, and fly through it FORGE has always turned a picture into a scene you fly through. In 2.6 the picture itself comes apart. Point Cloud rebuilds it as a grid of points and pushes each one into real depth by the depth m…

Community AnnouncementsAug 10, 2026
2.5: Three new AURA styles, and every FORGE effect gets its own hands

AURA reaches 24 styles, every FORGE effect gets its own hands, and one clock runs the app Three additions to AURA, one of which finally has a memory: hold a note in Filament and a glowing thread grows out of it, forks, and fuses with what i…

Community AnnouncementsJul 29, 2026
2.3: the app explains itself

2.3 adds a guided tour, puts the whole app on show in Demo Mode, and fixes how bends are drawn. Guided Tour The first time you start MPE Insight, a short clickthrough now runs by itself: 16 steps across the toolbar and all nine modules, eac…

Community AnnouncementsJul 27, 2026
2.2.1 Hotfix

2.2.1 is a hotfix for one bug that shipped with 2.2.0. If a Keyboard module was set to the Neon design, the first note you held made every Keyboard panel in your layout stop drawing and show "Paused after an error". Hitting "Try again" brou…

Community AnnouncementsJul 27, 2026
*MPE Insight 2.2: Weave

MPE Insight 2.2 adds a new way to read harmony, a new keyboard design, a new FORGE pass, and a change that quietly touches every module: the app now reads the pitch bend range your instrument actually reports. Weave: harmony as shape The Gr…