quiver

One oscillator with four waveforms, an asymmetric phase bend that turns clean shapes into growling ones, soft drive, ADSR, and a mono toggle. Per-note unison stacks one to eight detuned oscillators inside every key, panned across the stereo field, so a single keypress can be a whisper or a chorus.

Five MPE modulation rings route your fingers into drive, bend, attack speed, chord-spread detune, and a release-velocity lift flare. The smallest possible MPE synth. The easiest way to feel what your hands actually do to a sound.

A sine 808 designed MPE-first. Pressure shapes drive and decay. Slide opens the tone filter. Strike sets pitch chirp and punch. Lift fires a slam or thump articulation. An internal kick body ducks the main 808 so kick and bass glue out of the box.

Velocity gates the 808 tail: tap softly for a kick-only hit, lean for the full sub. Fourteen factory presets across trap, drill, garage, Latin trap and hyperpop.

A deep stereo grand piano sample bank wrapped in per-voice MPE control. Pressure shapes felt damping. Slide opens room ambience. Per-key bend on Osmose lets each note in a chord speak independently in pitch.

The point isn't a new piano sound. It's the gestures a real piano can't give you. A swell after the hammer struck. A bend on one note in a chord. Room space that breathes under your hand. Built on the open Salamander V3 sample set, given away free in that spirit.

Drop a vocal, a breakbeat, a field recording. Carve detects transients and lays one slice across each key. Pitch bends the slice. Pressure swells it. Sliding along the key surface scrubs the playhead inside the slice. The sample stays where you put it.

No sequencer, no step grid, no looping engine. Just the sample, the keys, and your MPE controller. Touch the waveform and play it by hand, made for the MPE era. Quiver's flagship.

Each held MPE note triggers a gate at its own rate. C2 = 1/4, C3 = 1/8, C4 = 1/16, C5 = 1/32. Chromatic semitones between are polymeter ratios. Hold a chord and three rhythms layer on top of each other, pressure-weighted across the held voices into one mix.

A pre-gate reverb blooms when you lean in. The gate chops the wash into pattern. A post-gate smoothing reverb glues the pieces back together. The whole gated-reverb gesture, on a single keyboard, played by hand.

The Lab is Quiver's open R&D shelf. Forge and sweep are open-ended sketches that may or may not graduate to release. Activate any of them and you reserve 50% off if they ever ship.

If your feedback shapes one of them, a complimentary release license might land in your inbox. No point systems, no promises, just a thank-you for real contribution.