
midi-sink
Ink marbling, played with MIDI
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What's New in midi
2.0
October 22, 2026
midi-sink 2.0: the water sounds, reads two ways, and plays thirteen instruments. New • Sound inside — a sampler for Decent Sampler libraries (bring your own; the Dan Tranh zither plays at first launch) and Suzu, a built-in synth whose oscillators cannot drift: a bowed string that sings under your pressure, a bell, a flute, a saxophone, a trumpet whose lips follow your slide, and six patches fitted to sampled instruments. Layer the two, or keep your DAW's sound and the picture. • Anod, a second medium — the same water read as an electric discharge: every strike a spark, the charge glowing by how far it has been stretched, the water drawing its own field lines. Switch live; the sheet is kept. • Five new layouts — a trumpet and a trombone with valve pads and a slide that retune every held note, the Wicki–Hayden button field, a fretboard in three tunings, and a theremin that is the whole screen. • Palettes — edit your own; colour-blind-safe presets included. • Presets — a whole session in one file, loadable on the iPad, the desktop and the web. • The prints ledger — every paper dip is kept and re-exports at any size, up to 8K. • Session replay — record a performance and play it back frame for frame, here, on another device, or in the browser. Improved • The dip keeps the print; Clear discards. The sustain pedal is musical in Play mode. • A panic button on the strip, a Next button to cycle your chosen layouts, left-handed mirroring, and a per-device layout offer you can accept or dismiss. • The settings sheet is organised by what you are doing: canvas, medium and look, sound, layout, outbound MIDI. • The water's coordinates are stored as displacements now, so a large canvas keeps the same precision at its edges as at its centre. Free software (AGPL-3.0). Collects nothing. The full notes and the user guide: https://midi-sink.vibetuned.com/
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