MPE sample slicer

carve

Drop a sample. Carve it. Play it by hand.

Buy - €150

Buy once, own it. Every update free, forever.

Rent-to-own from €15/mo for 12 months - coming very soon.

EU VAT included. 14-day money-back. Single-user license covers all your own machines.

What it does

Drop a sample. Carve it. Play it by hand.

A vocal, a breakbeat, a field recording. Carve detects transients and lays one slice across each MIDI key. From there, your fingers do everything: 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.

MPE routing

Slice per key, MPE per finger.

Every gesture from your controller maps to a property of the slice it's playing. Pick up a different finger, get a different slice; same gestures, same musical sense.

Note
Picks the slice. One transient per key from the auto-sliced sample. Hold a chord, layer multiple slices.
Pitch bend
Bends the slice's pitch on the fly. Slide between notes for classic glide; bend at the end of a slice to extend it musically.
Pressure
Amplitude. Lean in and the slice swells; lift and it ducks. Each voice independent so a chord breathes per-finger.
Slide (Y)
Scrubs the playhead inside the slice. Forward = later in the slice; back = earlier. Your finger on the waveform, on every key.

See it

The plugin, in motion.

Carve main UI on the Vocal/Vocal Multitool preset with the variation tabs, engine and filter panels alive under demo MPE
The engine
Carve preset browser open showing the factory bank across Vocal, Drum, Pad, Melodic, FX and Live categories
Twenty-one presets
Carve on Drum/Drum Multitool with the drum-tuned engine variation and a percussive MPE routing
Vocals, drums, beyond

Made to play with

Features.

  • Drop and auto-slice
  • Note picks the slice
  • Pressure → amplitude
  • Slide → playhead scrub
  • Bend → pitch
  • Unified continuous engine: autoRate, loopWindow, range, glide
  • Per-voice illumination across every UI surface
  • VST3 · AU · macOS (M1+)

Requirements

What it runs on, today.

Quiver plugins are designed MPE-first and tested in real workflows before they ship. The supported set is deliberately narrow right now so every shipped plugin works the way the page describes. Wider coverage comes as each host gets a full pass.

OS support

macOS on Apple Silicon (M1 or newer), VST3 and AU. Windows 10 or later, VST3, 64-bit. Intel Macs are not yet supported.

Tested in

Ableton Live 12, Bitwig Studio, Reaper, and Logic Pro. Other MPE-aware VST3 / AU hosts should work.

Controllers

Designed for Osmose, Push 3, Seaboard, LinnStrument, Continuum. Plays as a complete static patch on any MIDI keyboard; the per-finger gestural surface unlocks the day an MPE controller arrives.

Price

€150. The flagship.

Carve is the Quiver flagship. The deepest engine, the most expressive routing, the most refined per-voice illumination. Try it free for 14 days. Pay once and every update is yours, forever - no v2 upgrade tax, no sales, ever.

Buy - €150

Buy once, own it. Every update free, forever.

Rent-to-own from €15/mo for 12 months - coming very soon.

EU VAT included. 14-day money-back. Single-user license covers all your own machines.

v1.0.0 released May 5, 2026