Ostinato
Cinematic Rhythm EngineDrop your chords. Get the drive.
Cinematic ostinatos that lock to your progression: bass, pulse and line in three voices, ready to drag into your DAW.
Included, free
Ostinato comes with Epochs
Get Ostinato and Epochs, our cinematic transition engine, is yours as well, at no extra cost. One sound in, a whole trailer transition out: riser, suck-back, hit and tail, with the hit right on the bar line.
On its own, Epochs is $19 (regularly $39). With Ostinato, the Epochs key comes in the same mail and waits in your account.
Listen
Hear what Ostinato writes
MIDI straight out of Ostinato, from its presets and from patterns it generated, played through sampled instruments in the DAW. Ostinato itself makes no sound: it writes the parts for the instruments you already own.
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Ostinato gives your score its heartbeat: a bass that drives, a line that moves and a top that sparkles, locked to your chords.
Ostinato in short
Write or drop in your chords and Ostinato plays a cinematic figure over them: a driving low end, a moving middle and a high line on top. Choose a character, press Generate, shape it in the built-in editor and drag the result straight onto a track. Every note follows your chords, bar by bar.
Always in key
Every note follows your chords, bar by bar.
Works with your DAW
Drag chords in, drag MIDI out, or let it read your chords while the song plays.
Yours to shape
A full piano-roll editor and your own preset folders.
In the window
Four chords in. A cue out.
This is the window as you see it in your DAW, with the pattern Ostinato wrote over A minor, F, D minor and E. The notes light up as they play.
- ChordsAm · F · Dm · E
- PresetFall of the Ancients
- VoicesLow, Mid and High
- Tempo120 BPM · 4/4
How it works
From first chord to full momentum in seconds.
Get your chords in
Drag a chord clip from your DAW into the window and the pattern follows at once. Or let the chord generator write a progression in any key, starting on the root you choose. Already have it in Chords? From Chords brings it over in one click.
No drag and drop? Read Chords.
Press Read Chords, press Play in your DAW, and the plugin reads your progression while the song plays. It works in FL Studio and Logic Pro too, and the chords do not have to be quantised.
Pick a character. Press Generate.
Every press brings a new pattern from the library, filtered by the character you chose. Liked the one before? The arrows take you back.
Shape every note
Open Edit and the pattern fills the window as a piano roll: move, draw and erase notes, set their velocity, and see at a glance with Chord Tones which notes fit your chords.
Hear it through your instrument
Ostinato makes no sound of its own. It sends MIDI to the instrument on the next track, so you hear the pattern as your piano library, your strings or your synth before you commit. Turn on DAW Sync and it plays along with your song.
Drag it to your DAW
When it is right, drag the pattern onto a track. It is plain MIDI, and the chords can come along as a clip of their own.
Inside the plugin
Characters
Pick a character, press Generate, hear something new.
Every pattern in the library is described by how it moves, where it goes and how wide it spreads. Choose a character, press Generate, and use the arrows to step back to any pattern you liked.
Calm · Flowing · Driving · Racing
Rising · Falling · Arc · Circling
Narrow · Medium · Wide
Cross · Pulse
Three voices, one mix
Low carries the bass, Mid plays the line, High moves on top, each with its own fader, mute and solo. Mute a voice and it stays out of the export too.
Presets
Hand-picked. Named like music.
Hand-picked presets, chosen by a composer, each with a name in the spirit of the music: Fall of the Ancients, Crown of Embers, Steel and Glory. Save your own next to them, in folders you make.
Made for: Trailers, epic and action cues, game music, and tension building under a melody.
Appearance
Dark by default. Light when you want it.
Choose Dark, Light or the warm grey Stone under Appearance, behind the i button. Drag the handle to compare Dark and Light.
Everything in it
Everything in it
What Ostinato can do
Ostinato and Piano look the same and work the same way; only the music inside is different.
Drag chords in
Drag a chord clip in and the pattern follows at once. A MIDI part with block chords from your DAW, or a MIDI file, goes straight into the window.
Read Chords
No drag and drop in your DAW? Press Read Chords, press Play, done. It reads the chords while your DAW plays them, in FL Studio and Logic Pro too, and they do not need to be quantised.
From Chords
Wrote the progression in Chords? From Chords brings it in with one click: what is open in Chords right now, or any Chords preset you saved, with its key, time signature and parts.
Chord generator
Out of ideas? Generate a progression in any key. Choose the root, major or minor, 4, 8 or 12 bars and the number of chords; every progression starts on the root you picked.
Change chords by hand
Change any chord with a click and the pattern adapts instantly. In the chord lane, click to pick another chord of the key, or any major or minor chord under All chords; drag to move or lengthen, insert, delete, and set the octave of each chord.
Chords as you write them
Sevenths, sus and add chords welcome. Major and minor are read as they are; sevenths, add, sus, diminished, augmented and power chords as the major or minor triad behind them.
Six time signatures
From waltz to 12/8: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/8 and 12/8.
Generate by character
Pick a character, press Generate, hear something new. Every new pattern comes from the library, filtered by the character you chose.
Pattern history
Liked the one before? Step back to it. The arrows move through every pattern you generated, and the history stays when you close the window.
Parts A, B and C
A verse, a chorus and a bridge in one project. Each part has its own chords and its own pattern, and a new part starts as a copy of A.
Presets
Hand-picked presets, chosen by a composer, each with a name of its own.
Your own presets
Save your own presets under your own names and sort them into folders, with all parts or only the ones you choose. Rename or delete them at any time; they survive every update.
Steady
Play one of your own presets over longer chords than it was saved with, and Steady repeats its figure evenly instead of jumping halfway through a chord.
Edit page
A full piano-roll editor, built in: arrow, pencil and eraser, a grid down to 1/32 with triplets, zoom, a velocity lane, undo and redo, and Snap Chord. With Voice on Auto, a new note goes to the part nearest in pitch.
Chord Tones
See at a glance which notes fit your chords. Every note is coloured as a tone of the chord, a note that fits, or one that clashes.
In Key
One switch keeps everything in key. It is off by default.
Velocity and humanize
Velocity and humanize, dialed in to the number. Click a value to type it, double-click to reset it.
Octave, Rate, Start
Half time, double time, any octave. Move the register, set the rate from 1/2x to 2x, and choose the bar the pattern starts on.
Voice faders
Mute a voice and it stays out of the export too. Low, Mid and High each have a fader, mute and solo, and each can be dragged onto a track on its own.
Play
Hear it through your own instrument before you commit.
DAW Sync
Press Play in your DAW and the pattern plays along, bar for bar. Start from the first bar wherever you press play, or lock the pattern to your project’s bars.
Drag to DAW
Drag the pattern onto a track, or just one part of it. It is plain MIDI. The chords can come along as a clip of their own.
Dark, Light or Stone
Dark by default. Light, or the warm grey Stone, when you want it.
Built-in guide
Step-by-step guides for your DAW, right inside the plugin: getting chords in, the edit page and hearing it, for Cubase, FL Studio and Logic Pro. Short tips appear when you hover over a control, and can be switched off.
Signed and notarised
The installers are signed by TUNES OF FANTASY GmbH, the company behind Titanscore Audio: notarised by Apple on the Mac, signed with a verified certificate on Windows.
Update notice
You will know when an update is out: the plugin says so in its window.
Specification
Technical details
- Formats
- VST3 (Mac and Windows), AU (Mac)
- Systems
- macOS 12 or later · Windows 10/11, 64-bit
- DAWs
- Cubase, FL Studio and Logic Pro, and any other DAW that loads VST3 or AU
- Sound
- The plugin writes MIDI and makes no sound of its own. You hear it through your own instrument: a piano library, strings, a synth.
- Voices
- Low (bass), Mid (the line), High (on top), each with fader, mute, solo and its own drag to the DAW
- Library
- 25,000+ patterns, named presets, and your own
- Time signatures
- 2/4 · 3/4 · 4/4 · 5/4 · 6/8 · 12/8
- Chords read
- Major and minor; sevenths, add, sus, dim, aug and power chords as the triad behind them
- Rate
- 1/2x, 2/3x, 1x, 3/2x, 2x
- Parts
- A, B and C, each with its own chords and pattern
- DAW Sync
- From the start, or locked to the bars
- Editor
- Full-window piano roll: arrow, pencil, eraser, grid to 1/32 with triplets, zoom, velocity lane, undo and redo, Snap Chord, Voice Auto
- Appearance
- Dark by default, Light and Stone as options
- Installation
- Signed installers for Mac and Windows
- Licence
- One key for 2 computers. Activate once with your email and key, then it runs offline.
- Updates
- The plugin tells you when a new version is out
- Use
- Patterns and MIDI may be used in your own productions, commercial ones included
- Plugin name
- Titanscore Ostinato, listed under Titanscore Audio
Does it make sound on its own?
No. It plays MIDI into the instrument of your choice: any piano, string or synth library you already own.
Which DAWs does it work in?
Cubase, FL Studio and Logic Pro, and any other DAW that loads VST3 or AU. The built-in guide shows the steps for all three.
My DAW can’t drag MIDI into a plugin.
Use Read Chords: press it, play your chords in the DAW, and they appear in the plugin.
Can I use the patterns in commercial work?
Yes. Everything you create with it is yours to release.
On how many computers can I use it?
Two. You can release a computer in your account at any time.
Do I need to be online?
Only once, to activate.
Is there a demo version?
No. Everything it does is shown on this page, and the built-in guides are pictured here too. If anything is still unclear, ask before you buy.
Can I return it?
No. The licence key is issued the moment you pay, so all sales are final, as is usual for downloadable software.
Titanscore Audio
Ostinato
Cinematic Rhythm Engine
Drop your chords. Get the drive.
- DeliveryKey by email, right after checkout
- FormatVST3 · AU
- SystemsmacOS 12+ · Windows 10/11
- Licence2 computers, offline after activation
- InstallersSigned for Mac and Windows
- Free with itEpochs