Intro

Latest Release · Windows VST3 Host

Fanfare makes your rig easy to set up and then stays out of your way on stage. You play music. You don't run an IT desk.

Splits, sample triggers, arpeggiators, octaves, harmonizers. Set them up once. While you play, the next song loads in the background, so when you call it, it's already there.

Analog peak VU metering and dual FOH/IEM bus routing

Separate master faders and VU meters for FOH (front of house) and IEM (in-ear monitors), plus per-strip IEM Trim (-inf to +6 dB) so you can turn up your Rhodes in your ears without touching what the room hears.

Features

BLEEP-216 Built-In Polysynth

A 16-voice Juno/Jupiter-inspired analog-modeled synthesizer built directly into every channel strip — dual PolyBLEP oscillators + sub + noise, HPF, 12/24 dB resonant VCF, dual ADSRs, BBD Chorus I/II/I+II, stereo delay, LushReverb tank, onscreen keyboard, and 68 stage-ready presets (from Jump 1984 Brass, Take On Me Riff, Final Countdown, and Enyaesque to 90s supersaws and 303 bass) with zero external VSTs required.

Songs, Scenes & Setlists

Every song is a plain JSON file. Jump between sections with MIDI, and the next song loads while you play.

Strip DSP, LushReverb & Musette

Gate, 10-band EQ with Curve-Link mode, compressor, chorus, modulated figure-8 LushReverb tank (Lexicon-224 lineage), 6 built-in synthesized acoustic IRs (plus custom WAV cab loader), and stereo/ping-pong/tape delay with Tap Tempo on every strip. Plus an accordion detuner with 2-reed MM, 3-reed MMM, and “TEMU Musette”, which is exactly as out of tune as it sounds.

FOH + Per-Strip IEM Trim

Gold FOH and cyan IEM buses, plus a per-strip IEM Trim knob inside DYN with live dB badges right on the console. Dial more of yourself into your monitors while FOH stays locked.

Seven Stage & Studio Themes

Five flat Studio workspaces — Studio Amber (default), Studio Scarlett, Studio Sapphire, Studio Jade, and Studio Daylight — plus classic Front Panel Dark and outdoor-sunlight Front Panel Bright.

Global Controller Profiles

Define the CCs of your physical keyboard's knobs, sliders, and pedals once. Every strip's CC Manager can apply your hardware profile in a single click.

Tablet Stage HUD & Hotspot

Built-in Wi-Fi SoftAP hotspot and touchscreen Web HUD with 88-key zone map, Gig Notepad chord badges, Bright/Dark toggle, live ping readout, and hold-to-fire Panic.

Safe Saves & Version History

Every save writes atomically and keeps rotating timestamped snapshots. Right-click any Song, Set, or Strip in the Library to inspect and restore prior versions in one click.

Direct Outs

Send any slot straight to outputs 5 through 8, on top of the FOH and IEM mixes. Your vocal mic goes to the board on its own channel, and only where you send it.

Latch, Toggle & Swap

Turn any button into an on/off switch for a parameter or a mute, or flip between two loaded instruments. Swaps fade out and release every held note, so nothing hangs.

Two-Phase Loading & Rig Doctor

Deadlock-free two-phase VST3 loading with a segmented [X/N] step progress bar. If a plugin update or bad patch ever breaks a saved setup, built-in Rig Doctor diffs against .bak, dry-runs every plugin in isolation, and surgically repairs the JSON without losing your scenes.

Long-Press Learn

Hold MUTE, FOH, or IEM on any strip and move a knob to map it. Or do it from the CC Assignment Manager.

Sampler & Waveform Editor

Drag in a WAV, trim it to the sample, set the root key, and shift octaves.

Break Music & Auto-DJ

Dual in-RAM decks, broadcast auto-leveling with live gain-reduction metering, Auto-DJ & Beat-Sync crossfades, 6 instant playlist banks, Smart BPM Arrange, YouTube 192k grabber, and SQLite library export.

Your Files

No cloud, no account, no telemetry. Your patches are text files you can open, copy, and back up however you want.

Hybrid CPU & Thermal Guard

Lock-free parallel DSP pins real-time audio to fast P-cores, shields Core 0 from interrupts, monitors live CPU thermals and firmware clock clamps, and quietly checks GitHub for major milestone releases.

Bass-Player-Proof USB Hotplug

When your bass player accidentally yanks your USB cable out of the computer, just put it back in, count to three, go back to playing, and smile at your bass player. Audio and MIDI reconnect automatically.

Screenshots

Fanfare v1.55 Studio live mixer interface Built-in BLEEP-216 16-voice polyphonic synthesizer with 68 presets and LushReverb Fanfare Tablet Stage HUD Songs view over Wi-Fi SoftAP Fanfare mobile Touch Mixer with dual FOH and IEM faders Channel strip processing and convolution panel Arpeggiator transpose and octaver MIDI FX 8-pad sampler and waveform splice handle editor Active VST editors CC assignment manager and controller profile screen Dual-deck break-music player with YouTube download

Full Studio live mixer interface with Vertical Ribbon sidebar, dual FOH/IEM mixes, and peak VU metering. Click an image to expand.

Architecture

                      Keyboard (MIDI Hardware Controller)
                                    │  MIDI Input
                                    ▼
        ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
        │                    Fanfare Engine                      │
        │   ┌──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┬──────┐          │
        │   │ S0   │ S1   │ S2   │ S3   │ S4   │ ...  │          │  ← Linear rack
        │   │ Piano│ Organ│ Synth│ Brass│ Aux  │      │          │
        │   └──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┴──────┘          │
        │          │ FOH Bus          │ IEM Bus                  │  ← Dual independent mixes
        │          ▼                  ▼                          │
        │     Master FOH         Master IEM                      │
        │       DSP FX             DSP FX                        │
        └──────────┬──────────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                   │                  │
                   ▼                  ▼
             Main FOH Output    Stage IEM Output
1
Background Build
When you change songs, the new rig loads on a background thread, with plugins loading side by side.
2
Silent Validation
Each new plugin runs a silent test block before it goes live.
3
Instant Swap
The old rig and the new rig trade places in under a millisecond. The audio thread never allocates memory.
4
Nothing Breaks
If anything fails to load, the swap doesn't happen and the current song keeps playing.
Channel strip dynamics and EQ interface

Download

One .exe with ASIO and WASAPI. No installer.

  • Windows 10/11 x64
  • VST3 Host
  • ASIO & WASAPI
  • GPL v3 License

Free, open source (GPL v3). Your plugins and patches stay on your machine.