pulse

What it does

A polyrhythmic gate, between two reverbs, pulsed by the chord you hold.

Pulse is an MPE-driven polyrhythmic step gate sitting between a pre-gate WASH reverb and a post-gate TAIL reverb. Each held note triggers a gate at its own rate: C2 = 1/4, C3 = 1/8, C4 = 1/16, C5 = 1/32, with chromatic semitones in between mapping to polymeter ratios. Hold a chord and three rhythms layer on top of each other, pressure-weighted across the held voices into one mix.

The pre-gate WASH blooms when you lean in, the gate chops the wet signal into pattern, the post-gate TAIL glues the chops back into a coherent space. Four reverb modes per stage (Plate, Room, Hall, Cloud) and sixteen factory presets across Drop, Mix, Texture and Voice categories. The whole gated-reverb gesture, on a single keyboard, played by hand.

MPE routing

One finger, gate and reverb at once.

Pulse proves MPE belongs in audio effects, not just synths. Every gesture drives a gate parameter AND a matching reverb parameter, so a single fingertip pulls both halves of the sound in the same direction.

See it

The plugin, in motion.

Made to play with

Features.

• Polyrhythmic gate, one rate per held note
• Pre-gate WASH reverb, pressure-activated
• Post-gate TAIL reverb for glue
• Four reverb modes per stage: Plate, Room, Hall, Cloud
• Pressure-weighted across voices
• Polyphonic polymeters
• Sixteen factory presets across Drop, Mix, Texture, Voice
• Per-voice MPE illumination
• 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.