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NoemiDocsUsing Noemi as a Plugin

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Using Noemi as a Plugin

Alongside the standalone app, Noemi ships as audio plugins so you can run its generative graph inside a DAW.

FORMATS

  • macOS - AU, VST3, CLAP, LV2
  • Windows - VST3, CLAP, LV2
  • Linux - VST3, CLAP, LV2
  • iOS - AUv3

TWO VARIANTS

Each format is built in two flavours:

  • Noemi - The instrument variant. Load it on an instrument/MIDI track. It accepts MIDI from the host and outputs audio.
  • Noemi FX - The effect variant. Load it on an audio track so the track's audio flows into Noemi via an Audio Input node, letting you process host audio through Noemi's effects and modulation. It still accepts MIDI too.

HOST-EXPOSED PARAMETERS

Noemi exposes a compact set of automatable parameters to the DAW:

  • Master Volume - Overall output level (-60 to +6 dB)
  • Host Sync - When on (default), Noemi locks to the host's timeline: tempo, transport, and playback position. Starting playback in the DAW starts Noemi aligned to the host position, and locate jumps and loop regions are followed. Turn it off to run Noemi's own clock independently of the DAW.
  • Macro 1-8 - The first 8 macro modulation sources (see Modulation). Automate or MIDI-learn these in the host to drive whole banks of Noemi parameters. The bridge is bidirectional.

MULTIPLE AUDIO OUTPUTS

By default everything Noemi makes is summed through the master bus, past the Mastering Chain, and leaves on one stereo pair. You can instead send individual parts out on their own pair, so each one arrives in the DAW - or on your audio interface - on its own channel, ready to mix, process, or record as a stem.

In plugin builds Noemi offers eight stereo output pairs: the main pair plus Out 3/4 through Out 15/16. The extra pairs start switched off, so a fresh instance looks like an ordinary stereo plugin until you ask for more. How you switch them on depends on the host - Live adds them as extra channels on the track, Logic wants the multi-output version of the instrument, and most others expose them as an output list on the plugin.

In the standalone app the same routing goes to your audio interface: on any interface with more than two outputs, the Output menu lists its stereo pairs by their own names ("Output 3 + 4"). Assigning a pair opens those device channels automatically. If the project later runs on a smaller interface - or the instrument variant of the plugin - the part plays through the main mix until the pair exists again; the assignment itself is always remembered.

To send a part to its own pair, right-click its channel strip in the mixer, or right-click its node on the canvas, and choose a destination under "Output". "Main mix (mastered)" is the default. A node routed away from the main mix shows a small badge with its pair ("3/4") in its header. For a multi-output plugin the menu goes one level deeper - each of its pairs can go to its own destination.

Two things worth knowing:

  • A part routed to its own pair leaves the main mix entirely, which means it also skips the Mastering Chain. That is usually the point - you want the raw stem and you will do the mastering in your DAW - but it does mean a part will sound different on Out 3/4 than it did in the main mix.
  • Its BFX send knobs still work, and the returns still land on the main mix. So a stem with reverb sent to a bus return will be dry on its own pair, with the reverb tail arriving on the main pair. If you want the part to leave the buses alone while it is aux-routed, tick "Mute FX sends on aux out" in the same Output menu - the send levels come back untouched when the part returns to the main mix.

The routing is saved with the project. The FX plugin and the iPad app are main-pair only.

HOST MIDI OUTPUT

A MIDI Output node can target "Host (DAW)" in plugin builds, sending Noemi's generated MIDI back out through the plugin to drive your DAW's own instruments. See MIDI Output.

HOST INTEGRATION DETAILS

  • Noemi reports zero latency, so the host applies no delay compensation around it.
  • Transport follows the host's actual start/stop - in a host without a rolling transport (AUM and friends), Noemi's own Play keeps playing instead of being stopped by the idle host.
  • Offline bounces and freezes drive Noemi's clock deterministically, so the render matches what you heard live.
  • Mono tracks and instrument slots with no audio input are accepted; the FX variant also offers a sidechain input bus.
  • Noemi reports a real effect tail, so renders keep reverb and delay tails instead of cutting them off.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT IN PLUGIN MODE

  • The File menu is trimmed to Microtuning Settings and Keyboard Shortcuts (project open/save, audio device, and OSC settings are handled by the host).
  • The QWERTY computer-keyboard input is disabled (the host owns keyboard focus).
  • The welcome dialog does not appear.
  • Noemi's full graph, mixer, modulation, mastering, and scenes are saved inside the DAW's session state, so your patch travels with the project.