Wide Blue Sound – Humanizer Pro v1.0.4 for WiN

Do your tracks sound robotic? Because they are. Humanizer Pro thinks like a musician. Real performers move naturally through the hall, creating subtle tension and release that keep listeners engaged.

The art of performance in 4 knobs

• DRIFT – Simulates the performer’s evolving relationship with the rhythm over time.
• POCKET – Places each instrument ahead or behind the beat.
• ERROR – Physical timing errors that occur during playing.
• VELOCITY – Natural volume fluctuations that repeat, just like in a real performance.

For producers who care about the details

• If you program MIDI with your mouse
• Humanizer Pro is ideal for you

Do you play all your MIDI live

Great, you’re most of the way there. But even good performances get boring when looped. Use humanizer to make sure it never repeats the same way twice in your entire song, even when you’re looping your MIDI regions.

Do you make modern pop, dance or hip-hop

Modern music enjoys sparse arrangements that benefit heavily from adding micro-details to stay interesting and feel “filled out”. Variation goes a long way.

Does this improve my mix

A little bit. Use the Pocket knob to adjust whether an instrument stands out or blends into the mix. Psychoacoustic temporal masking is where notes tend to cover-up quieter notes played at the same time, or anything played immediately after. So if all your notes are perfectly on the grid, some of it is getting lost.

This can make such a difference that music producers often shift drums and other instruments by milliseconds to find that perfect energy.