A synthesizer that plays between the keys. $60 (regular $150), launch price until 1 December 2026 · Standalone app, VST3 and AU instrument on macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel); standalone app and VST3 on Windows (64-bit)
Play JING FANG like any synthesizer: every key is its usual note, from any MIDI keyboard, your DAW or the computer keyboard. Switch on MICRO and each note can sit one step higher or lower on a 53-step grid while you play, so the notes between the keys are under your fingers. The rest is a full instrument: three oscillators, a filter, FM, drive, echo and reverb, a patch bay, an arpeggiator, a step sequencer and a drum machine.
The whole synthesizer on one face: three oscillators, the filter, two envelopes, FM, drive, echo and reverb, and the 3-row keyboard.
MICRO on: the keys that sit a step higher or lower light on their rows, with their offset in cents.
The patch bay: three LFOs and cables, each cable with its own amount.
The step sequencer: a note, three knobs and three switches on every step.
The drum machine: a sound on every track, steps with accents.
The Tuning Lab: learn a tuning from a recording, morph between two tunings, see every interval you hold.
Out of the box every key plays its usual note, so any MIDI keyboard, pad controller, DAW piano roll or the computer keyboard works with no setup. One switch, MICRO, opens the notes between the keys.
In a DAW JING FANG follows the host tempo, starts and stops with it and stays locked to its bar. Drag a sequence or a drum pattern from the panel onto a track as a MIDI clip.
A full synthesizer that plays like any other, until you open the notes between the keys.
Press MICRO and the keyboard opens into three rows: the usual keys in the middle, each key one step higher above and one step lower below. A key that sits off its usual pitch lights on its row while it plays, with its offset in cents.
The step is one setting: 1/53 of an octave by default (22.6 cents), or any other grid. A4 sets the reference pitch. Keyswitches move a note to its high or low row while you play, from any keyboard, and the rows you set stay in your own presets.
Give the Lab a recording of a solo line and it measures the steps the player really used, then the keyboard plays them. A step can sit lower on the way down than on the way up. Morph moves every key from one tuning to another with one knob, the interval view shows each interval you hold in cents with its nearest simple ratio and beat rate, and Scala files go in and out.
Every part of the panel has its own preset slot. Take the oscillators from a lead, the envelope from a pad and the filter from a bass, and save the mix as yours. The tempo sits beside the preset name; in a DAW it is the host’s.
Each oscillator has its own type, level, octave, semi, fine, pan, unison, detune and spread. The filter is low-pass, band-pass, high-pass or notch, with drive and key, envelope and velocity amounts.
Amp and filter envelopes with their own curves. The drum mode adds a pitch envelope and a click layer, so kicks, snares and percussion come out of the same synthesizer.
Every preset carries its own drive, a tempo-synced echo and a reverb, so a sound arrives finished.
Three LFOs and cables. Drag from a source to a destination; every cable has its own amount. Pull a cable out to remove it.
One key can play a whole pattern. The step sequencer has a note, three knobs and three switches on every step, and a step can sit on its high or low row. Press PLAY, go back to the panel and play on top.
A sound on every track and steps with accents. Patterns live inside the presets, as on a hardware synthesizer, and drag out to your DAW as MIDI.
Drag a knob up or down; double-click returns it to the value of the preset that is loaded now. “?” opens help over the panel.
$150 $60 — launch price until 1 December 2026. Includes 2 years of updates; the version you have keeps working forever. No licence key to type: install it on your own computers and play.
macOS 11 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel · Windows, 64-bit · Standalone app, VST3 and AU instrument on macOS; standalone app and VST3 on Windows · One licence, your own computers, personal and commercial use · 2 years of free updates · Paid through Lemon Squeezy in US dollars; refunds: subverselab.com/refunds