Play a MIDI keyboard or open a MIDI file, pick a look, choose the audio, and export 1080p — 16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. One window, no editing timeline.
Mac, Windows & iPad
Perform the piece live on a USB MIDI keyboard, or open a MIDI file and let the built-in synth play it. Either way the notes fall as light onto a lit keyboard.
Six appearance presets, switchable impact effects and custom colours. For audio, use the built-in synth or your own recording of the take.
1920×1080 for YouTube, or 1080×1920 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts with the bands those apps cover shaded in the preview. Both at 30fps.
A computer running Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, or macOS 12 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel. A MIDI keyboard, if you want to perform the piece yourself. Any standard MIDI keyboard or controller — 25 keys to 88, weighted or not. If you don't have one, a MIDI file is enough: Xascada plays it back as light through its built-in synth.
Optional: an audio recording of your own performance, if you'd rather the video carry your instrument's sound than the synth.
The whole video is made inside one window. There is no timeline to edit; you play, choose, and render.
A full-length YouTube upload wants 16:9. Shorts, TikTok and Reels want 9:16, and each app lays its own buttons and captions over the edges of the frame.
Xascada's vertical export reframes the scene for a phone and shades the bands those apps overlay, so you can see which notes stay visible before the file exists. You can post both from one take: the full piece on YouTube, and a 9:16 cut of a single phrase as a Short.
The built-in synth is the simple route: the sound and the light come from the same notes, so they can't drift apart.
If your digital piano or a mic'd acoustic sounds the way you want, record the audio as you play and use that recording as the video's soundtrack. The clip then sounds exactly like your take.
No. Open a MIDI file and the built-in synth plays it back as light, and Cinematic Export works without a keyboard connected. Plug one in when you want the video to be your own performance.
1080p at 30fps in both formats: 1920×1080 (16:9) for YouTube, and 1080×1920 (9:16) for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
Yes. When you export, choose the built-in synth or your own recording as the audio.
Yes — Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, or macOS 12 or later, Apple Silicon and Intel. On iPad it's on the App Store (iPadOS 17 or later, with a USB or Bluetooth MIDI keyboard).
Yes. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, with full-quality export from the first minute. Cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.