Keys made from my own recordings, played on a little glazed instrument with puffed-rice keys and rice cake knobs. Add a fifth, a shimmering octave-up reverb, a worn cassette, and bend everything with the pitch pad.
Recordings of Rice Cake Keys, one for each sound.
Preset 1: a pure tone with a fifth above it, from my own recordings.
Preset 2: a moving, swirling tone.
Preset 3: wide and airy.
Preset 4: a slow swell, a long release and some Shimmer.
Plain with the Shimmer reverb turned up and the Lo-Fi tape switched on.
Plain, bent up and down with the pitch pad.
Three octaves of puffed-rice keys with toasted black keys. Play them with a MIDI keyboard, click them, or use the A–K row on your computer; Z and X move the octave. Notes your DAW plays light up the keys they land on.
Fifth adds the note a fifth up. Shimmer sends an octave up into a long, bright reverb, and the mod wheel turns it. Attack and Release shape each note, Warmth drives it from clean to saturated, and Volume sets the level. A glowing arc shows where each one is.
Touch the frosted pad and everything you play slides in pitch: down an octave at the left edge, up an octave at the right, glides back when you let go. Your DAW records every move as automation.
The Light knob fades the glaze from white to lavender, and the Bright / Dark switch turns it dark.
Plain, Swirl, Airy, Pad, Hang, Cloud, Dream and Pluck, from my own synth recordings, some of them layered.
Press the screen to open the preset list. Name the sound you made and save it; every DAW sees it.
An octave-up shimmer reverb and an added fifth, mixed in on their own knobs. The mod wheel moves Shimmer.
Flip the switch for a worn cassette: wow, flutter and a softer top, with no distortion.
−12 to +12 semitones under one finger, recorded by your DAW like any other control.
Sustain-pedal chords stay clear, with headroom and a gentle limiter built in.
$9, once, and $5 at the launch price until the end of 30 November. Taxes are worked out at checkout.
Download and install Rice Cake Keys, open it in your DAW and choose Start trial. No account and no browser are needed. You get every feature for 7 days on that computer. After that it plays no sound until you activate a license; your projects keep their settings.
Not yet. Rice Cake Keys is macOS only for now, and Windows support is coming soon. Leave your email in the newsletter box below to hear when it is ready.
Three at a time, as long as you are the one using it. Deactivate one to move to another.
Yes. Offline activation moves a small file between that computer and one that is online. How it works
Yes: it loads as an instrument (VST3 and Audio Unit) on a MIDI track in Ableton Live, FL Studio, Cubase, Reaper, Logic Pro and others. It also runs as an app on its own.
No. Click the keys or play them from your computer keyboard. A MIDI keyboard works too, with the sustain pedal and the mod wheel.
It runs in Logic Pro as an Audio Unit. There is no AAX version, so not in Pro Tools.
Yes. A license includes the updates released for Rice Cake Keys; download them from your account.
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