Traditional pitch bend wheels are limited and hard to use. Fluid Pitch—winner of the MIDI Innovation Award 2021—is the auto-tune for your pitch bend wheel, ensuring every note stays perfectly in tune with your chosen scale.
Polyphonic pitch bending: Bend multiple notes simultaneously
Microtuning: Explore unique scales and custom tunings
Producer Quote: “Fluid Pitch is the plugin we always wish we had but never thought was possible.
MIDI FX plugins process notes rather than audio. They sit before an instrument in the chain and change what gets played, so they affect the writing rather than the mix.
Chord generation, arpeggiation, groove and pitch behaviour all live in this category.
An audio plugin shapes sound that has already been made. A MIDI FX plugin shapes the performance before any sound exists, which is why it changes the part itself rather than its tone.
Fluid Pitch turns the pitch bend wheel into a scale-aware tool. It bends multiple notes at once and locks each bend to your chosen scale, so expressive bends land on notes that belong in the key. It also supports microtuning for custom scales. It won the MIDI Innovation Award in 2021.
Yes, that is what Fluid Chords is for: moving from one chord to another as a continuous bend rather than a cut, the way a guitarist slides up the fretboard while keeping harmonic control.
Most hosts support them, though where they sit in the signal chain differs between DAWs. In practice you place them before the instrument you want them to drive.
They tend to be most useful for the things a keyboard cannot physically do, such as bending one note inside a chord, or holding a groove while you play accents over it. Playing ability changes what you reach for, not whether the category is worth having.