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Exciting addition, almost missed it:

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Extensible plug-in that can process or generate MIDI data using standard JavaScript.

This caught me by surprise too while looking through the midi fx drop down. Got it to repeat the note I play in a nice (not quite musical yet) pattern. Pretty excitig! I'd love to hear ideas for creative uses of this thing apart from making clever arps.

I know this is a niche feature but I think it's an important differentiator (and something that I love After Effects for).

I'm probably the only person who's excited to code up my own Arpeggiators and Rhythm pattern generators...

I don't even know what an Arpeggiator is, sounds cool though.

If you play a chord into an arpeggiator, it... well, it arpeggiates it. In other words, it plays each note of the chord individually in a particular rhythm (e.g. 16th notes) in a particular pattern (e.g. up/down, up, random). Very, very common in electronic music.

Cool I had no idea, I'm about as musical as... umm, yeah i've got no analogue.

Does it get scaled in specific patterns or is random ok?

Patterns, random, fast, short, whatever. Most packaged arpeggiators have all sorts of knobs to twist.

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