Midicake UNA turns the chords you play into three generative tracks
The hardware MIDI composer builds chord/rhythm, melody and bass parts from your keyboard input in real time. Early Bird preorders are $519.
Midicake has introduced UNA, a hardware MIDI composer that treats incoming chords as a harmonic source and builds three coordinated tracks from them: chord and rhythm, melody, and bass.
The chord track handles rhythmic patterns, progressions and sustained drones. The melody track mixes arpeggiator-style behavior with step sequencing. The bass track generates its own patterns, or plays ones you have edited, and follows the changing harmony. You can steer it live, tweak parameters, or let it evolve on its own. A keyboard-split mode lets one hand play chords while the other takes a solo line.
Eight dedicated knobs cover performance controls, and an 8 + 16 modulation system animates parameters. Pattern tools include ratchets, trills, swing, probability, accents and Euclidean-style muting. Patches can be stored and recalled instantly.
UNA has two independent TRS MIDI outputs, USB-C and a USB host port. MIDI clock keeps drum machines and other sequencers locked to its timing. A free browser-based app, CONNECT, handles screen mirroring, patch management, routing and visualization. An optional Angle Stand holds the unit at a playing angle and has mounting points for a phone or tablet running CONNECT.
UNA is up for preorder in an Early Bird Edition at $519. The first 150 units are scheduled to ship between December 2026 and January 2027.
