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Jake Jackson · Post by **Jake Jackson** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:53 pm

Nice idea. Since you asked for suggestions:

1. It would be nice to have a keyboard on which you could see the chord notes being played by the chord.

2. It would be nice to be able to assign the chords to either the treble or bass--so one could use the program for both hitting chords on the low end while playing melodies or as a way to experiment with full rhythm parts.

3. Being able to adjust the velocity of each note in the chord might be asking for too much, but it would be nice to have for color--it would let the user control the sound of the chord the way we do when we actually play, not hittng all the notes with the same strength.

jmp909 · Post by **jmp909** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 8:03 pm

1. It would be nice to have a keyboard on which you could see the chord notes being played by the chord.

already planned. it will also allow you to enter custom chords (on the advanced version)

2. It would be nice to be able to assign the chords to either the treble or bass--so one could use the program for both hitting chords on the low end while playing melodies or as a way to experiment with full rhythm parts.

sort of already planned. see my original post. split keyboard into 3 parts: chord selectors, single bass notes and chord transpose notes. i would suggest you record top end melodies separately by switching off the plugin temporarily. i'll think about this.

3. Being able to adjust the velocity of each note

already planned. there will be a "expression" control that will add/subtract a random amount to your original key hit for each note.

bill fusion · Post by **bill fusion** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:15 am

I used to have a program for the old c-64 called organ in which using keys on keyboard (qwert) i could do chords one row was root the other row was type and I could do very fast chord prgresions to see how they sound. If fact there ius this old scifi movie in which it dupicated its sound. A 25 yearold program noone has redone. Ofcourse it was not as well known as piano.
One extra feature that would make it better a midi filter that would take whatever I played on my keyboard and make sure it was it tune (ie autoharp)

jmp909 · Post by **jmp909** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:39 am

if you could find this for me on the 'net that would be great.

It sounds like what mine does, but you use a MIDI keyboard rather than the PC keyboard.

but i'd still like to take a look at it for comparision

regards j

discretemachine · Post by **discretemachine** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:13 am

Great idea !

One suggestion: Since this plug in will be geared towards "non musicians", why not include a scale option ? Chords "works" according to scales, and such a feature would help immensly for a beginner to choose the "right" chords...

If you choose to play in A minor, the plug in could suggest the appropriate chords (Amin , Bmin7 b5 , C , Dmin, Emin, F and G and variations of those chords , (7ths, inversions, 13ths etc...) ). I.e. an option like "lock to scale" so you don't play any chords outside that scale.

Allthough I would reccmend everybody to read up on music theory, this is a feature tht would make theis plug in super desirable. I remember using hours in Musiclabs RnC auditioning chords and figuring out chordprogressions by ear....I spent more time finding the right chords\ sequense than actually making music....

it would be like wicked a combination between Chordworx pro and Nicfit's "scale enforcer" plugin.

possible ?

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:59 am

I'm ready for this one wheres it at?:D

vinovatus · Post by **vinovatus** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 5:22 pm

discretemachine wrote:Great idea !

One suggestion: Since this plug in will be geared towards "non musicians", why not include a scale option ? Chords "works" according to scales, and such a feature would help immensly for a beginner to choose the "right" chords...

If you choose to play in A minor, the plug in could suggest the appropriate chords (Amin , Bmin7 b5 , C , Dmin, Emin, F and G and variations of those chords , (7ths, inversions, 13ths etc...) ). I.e. an option like "lock to scale" so you don't play any chords outside that scale.

Allthough I would reccmend everybody to read up on music theory, this is a feature tht would make theis plug in super desirable. I remember using hours in Musiclabs RnC auditioning chords and figuring out chordprogressions by ear....I spent more time finding the right chords\ sequense than actually making music....

it would be like wicked a combination between Chordworx pro and Nicfit's "scale enforcer" plugin.

possible ?

That is exactly what i`m building now.
Basic scale-chords relationships.

i intended to do this long time ago and last week
i started it.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:39 pm

well somebody make it already..... great idea jmp909 I hope all goes well with your endeavors, and vinovatus when's yours comin out, damn im' jealous, wish I could make shit like this you guys are a talented lot

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:22 pm

Could you call it Chord Monster?

vinovatus · Post by **vinovatus** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:24 pm

stale bread wrote:well somebody make it already..... great idea jmp909 I hope all goes well with your endeavors, and vinovatus when's yours comin out, damn im' jealous, wish I could make shit like this you guys are a talented lot

well, the scale-chord engine is done
it represents the relationship between
"church" modes(ionian(major), dorian, locrian etc.)
and minor mode which combines the 3 minor modes(natural, harmonic and melodic) in desired key.

now i`m building graphic and sequencer engines
there`s a lot of work to do so it won`t be ready really soon
but i`ll do my best to fast up this plugin release.

stale bread · Post by **stale bread** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:51 pm

very nice...have a feelin this plug is gonna strike a chord with me

chardin · Post by **chardin** » Sat May 14, 2005 11:13 pm

What is the latest news on this chord VSTi?

chord assistant plugin i'm working on - suggestions wanted