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by bezieio 3392 days ago
The original motivation of Bezie was to build a simple tool to enable finer control over bézier curve automation. It evolved from a MIDI clip generator into a MIDI controller. Bezie opens up new possibilities with cubic and quadratic bézier curves. Bezie runs as a virtual MIDI controller outside of your DAW, not as a VST. This makes MIDI mapping extremely simple and no different than mapping from a hardware controller. Bezie also has several unique features including: vertical & horizontal envelope inversion, copy & paste, grid control and concurrent envelope rendering. Bezie is built with Electron, React and Redux and takes advantage of node-midi for virtual MIDI and SVG for the automation UI.
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iamcreasy 3382 days ago
From the video demonstration, it looks useful with Ableton. But what about other DAWs that already has feature rich automation tools. For example, FL studio.[1]

Do you think using Bezie with FL studio would give the user a finer control over automation curve?

[1] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Gut0fK1n4

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bezieio 3380 days ago
Bezie gives you finer automation control in many DAWs, but not all. I don't think you'd gain anything from Bezie in FL Studio. Aside from automation, Bezie also allows you to connect a MIDI controller and trigger Bezie automation for use with DJ software [1] like Traktor.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBM5gAm83ao&feature=youtu.be...

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