Unison MIDI Wizard 2.0 [WiN-MAC]

• Product: MIDI Wizard 2.0
• Developer: Unison Audio
• Version: 2.2.48
• Format: Standalone, VST, VST3, AAX, AU
• Requirements: Windows 10 or later, macOS 10.15 or later
• Source: unison.audio/midi-wizard

MIDI Wizard 2.0 is a MIDI chord-progression and melody generator plugin from Unison, built around three modes — Chord, Melody, and Hybrid — across 32 genres of music. Generation draws on a library of more than 102,000 genre-specific fragments combined through AI and pattern-recognition algorithms, with a built-in synth, sampler, and 16 processing effects for immediate playback. A built-in piano roll with scale highlighting allows editing after generation, and results export as MIDI or audio files. The plugin runs inside any major DAW on Mac or PC.

Key Takeaway

MIDI Wizard 2.0 generates chord progressions and melodies from a fragment library plus AI rather than composing freely from nothing, across 32 genres and three modes. The built-in synth and FX cover full playback and shaping, but pricing sits well above most single-purpose MIDI plugins — $397 as a one-time payment, or three payments of $149.

Three Modes, Two Styles Each

MIDI Wizard 2.0 runs three generation modes, each split into two styles. Chord mode outputs a progression in block or rhythm format; Melody mode outputs a top line as either a longer lead or a short pluck pattern; Hybrid mode stacks the chord and melody algorithms together with additional AI processing layered on top.

Selecting a mode and style happens before generation rather than after, so switching from a rhythm-style chord progression to a block-style one means regenerating rather than toggling the existing result. A producer building a full arrangement gets chord and melody material from the same tool without switching plugins; a producer who wants block and rhythm variations of the same underlying progression side by side has to generate each one separately rather than deriving one from the other.

Genre-Specific Generation

Generation draws from a library described as more than 102,000 custom, genre-specific chord and melody fragments, combined through AI, machine learning, and a pattern-recognition system built specifically for this plugin. Thirty-two genres are covered individually, from hip-hop and house to classical and gospel, each with its own set of fragments rather than one generic pool shared across all of them.

A separate combined genre setting fuses all 32 genre libraries into one pool rather than keeping them isolated, which changes the kind of result that comes back — output pulls fragments across genre boundaries instead of staying inside one genre’s conventions. A producer working strictly within one genre’s sound gets consistent, genre-appropriate results from the standard 32; a producer looking to blend two unrelated genres into something unfamiliar reaches for the combined setting instead of running two separate generations and splicing them together by hand.

Built-In Synth, Sampler, and 16 FX

Every generation loads a synth preset matched to the selected genre alongside the new MIDI, pulling from a library of 200 factory presets built with macro controls for quick shaping. A built-in sampler accepts dragged-and-dropped one-shots, letting a producer’s own sound play the generated chord progression or melody instead of the stock synth.

Sixteen built-in effects — Auto-Pan, Bitcrush, Chorus, Compress, Destroy, Detune, Echo, Flange, Mangle, Phase, Reverse, Space, Tremolo, Verb, Vibrato, and Wobble — sit on top of that signal for further shaping. Because the factory presets expose macro controls rather than a full multi-page synthesis engine, a producer wanting to redesign a preset’s oscillators or filter routing from scratch is working within a narrower toolset than a dedicated synth plugin offers; a producer who just wants a fast, genre-appropriate sound to preview an idea gets there in one click.

Detecting an Existing Progression

MIDI Wizard 2.0 can analyze a MIDI chord progression dragged in from an existing project and generate a matching melody built to follow that progression’s root notes, rather than requiring every idea to start from the plugin’s own chord generator. Pre-made stock progressions are also available as a starting point for producers who don’t have an existing progression to feed in.

That detection step means a melody generated to match an imported progression is built specifically around notes the producer already committed to, rather than a generic melody that happens to fit loosely. A producer with an existing chord idea gets a melody tailored to it directly; a producer starting from nothing skips the detection step entirely and generates a chord progression first.

Editing, Export, and Unison Link

A built-in piano roll with scale highlighting allows editing generated notes directly, flagging out-of-scale notes so a manual edit doesn’t accidentally break the key. Added parameters for velocity sensitivity and swing adjust how humanized the generated performance feels, and progressions can be labelled with their chord names for reference while learning.

Results export as MIDI or audio files, or drag directly into a DAW project, and Unison Link connects generated chord progressions and melodies to Bass Dragon, a separate Unison plugin, for a matching bassline. That bassline connection depends on owning Bass Dragon separately — Unison Link doesn’t generate a bassline from inside MIDI Wizard 2.0 itself without that companion plugin installed.

Built From Fragments, Not From Scratch

MIDI Wizard 2.0’s chord and melody output comes from combining a library of more than 102,000 genre-specific fragments through AI and pattern-recognition algorithms, rather than composing new material freely from a blank state. That fragment-based foundation is also what makes chord detection possible: dragging in an existing progression matches it against the same underlying genre logic used to generate new ideas.

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