Your MIDI. New directions.
MIDI import, your own reusable styles, and more control over every track.
Bring your own MIDI
- Import standard MIDI files for analysis, playback and piano-roll editing. Motivo identifies tempo, key, scale, harmony and musical parts, and maps them to the existing composition controls.
- Generate fresh melodies and variations inspired by an imported performance, or regenerate individual parts while keeping the rest of the song.
- Change the key, scale, harmony, genre, length or arrangement when developing an imported idea. Imported styles respond to the current settings.
- Improved handling of recoverable MIDI-file errors, instrument changes and imported percussion. MIDI analysis stays on your computer.
Build your own style library
- Save and reuse melody styles, chord progressions, chord rhythms, bass patterns and drum styles across imported and generated songs.
- Learn an active, representative melody phrase automatically, or choose the source track and reference bars yourself. Optional supporting melody voices remain on separate tracks and MIDI channels.
- Choose the bass track to learn when a MIDI contains several bass parts. Reused patterns retain their rhythmic character, melodic contour and register while adapting to the new harmony.
- Learn core chord cycles beyond empty introductions and repeated sections, and adapt saved progressions to the destination song’s key and scale.
- Save edited chord-note patterns together with their settings. Save modified presets as new styles, update your own saved styles, or delete them with confirmation.
Shape the sound and performance
- Preview and choose an instrument or drum kit for each track, and adjust its volume in a compact Sound & volume window.
- Keep per-part sound and volume choices across new generations, with distinct drum-kit previews and improved playback of quieter imported melodies.
- Use the new Note Length control to guide shorter or longer melodic notes. Its neutral default preserves the original articulation; Note Density controls the number of notes.
- Clearer melody controls, including Evolution and Identity, make it easier to shape how an idea develops.
A smoother composition workflow
- More reliable regeneration after importing MIDI, changing settings or using saved styles, with new full generations added to history.
- Improved harmonic fit and handling of notes at register limits when adapting learned melodies and bass patterns. Chord rhythm and supporting melody layers remain independently controllable.
- Improved held chord and pad articulation, playback start positions, cursor synchronization and transport controls.
- Keep the selected piano-roll part across generations when it exists in the new song. Notes stay within the keyboard and timeline bounds.
- More consistent dropdown sizing, stable sound and style dialogs, clearer tooltips and corrected knob-value displays.