KVR Audio

Bilhar · Post by **Bilhar** » Wed May 25, 2022 7:31 pm

Hey folks,

First time here! I've been using Scaler 2 to learn about music and especially chords. However, it doesn't do quite what I want it to do, or maybe I just don't know how to do it.

I'm looking for a plugin (if it exists) where you can import your melody and have the plugin create the chords for you. Is there such a thing? Is there a DAW that does this? I'm using FL Studio and I know for a fact that it doesn't.

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Vurniks · Post by **Vurniks** » Thu May 26, 2022 6:06 am

Ludwig does this: http://www.write-music.com/

But the result will never be perfect. You still will have to make some choices. Here are some alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/ludwig/

Pay attention to the possible exports. You might want to save the result as a midi.

Bilhar · Post by **Bilhar** » Fri May 27, 2022 1:57 pm

Thanks for replying! I'd never heard of this so will check it out!

Audiowalter · Post by **Audiowalter** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 7:46 am

Scaler can do this, sort of. You can play in your melody, and it will show you chords in the key/scale that you just played. You still have to pick them and arrange them yourself. But you’d probably want to do that anyway. There’s a video on YouTube where one of the Scaler developers shows how to do this.

tatanka · Post by **tatanka** » Tue Jun 28, 2022 8:24 am

Vurniks wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 6:06 am Ludwig does this: http://www.write-music.com/

But the result will never be perfect. You still will have to make some choices. Here are some alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/ludwig/

Pay attention to the possible exports. You might want to save the result as a midi.

What a pity Ludwig has never been develloped after version 3 which must been near to 10 years old now. I know I had some contact with the develloper and discussed some requests but then it seems to be abandoned

harvon · Post by **harvon** » Wed Jul 13, 2022 11:59 pm

The Ludwig 3 seems to be quite suitable for my modest needs.The free demo churns out acceptable for me arrangements/chord progressions/accompaniments, at least for some few melodies in the song database. I don't know yet if there is random variation or how, from run to run when I make no changes in input parameters.

The playback is not so good though.

DNastee1 · Post by **DNastee1** » Sun Jul 24, 2022 3:55 pm

I've been researching this, too. Scaler 2 was all I really found that's close. I'll be checking out Ludwig 3

Plugin to create chords from a melody