The Chord Memorizer Pack also includes the Chord Transposer device, which transposes a single chord across the entire MIDI note range.
Add an empty chain to the Rack and use the Rack's Key Zones to separate the two chains. But to avoid passing chord triggers, leave Thru off and enclose Chord Memorizer in a MIDI Effects Rack. When you want to play chords on one section of the keyboard while playing melodies on another section, you can click Chord Memorizer's Thru button to pass all incoming MIDI notes. To avoid a lot of mouse clicking, map the Record and Store buttons to MIDI controllers such as footswitches.Ĭhord Memorizer chords can have as many notes as you like and you can enter them singly or in clusters. You then click the Store button and play the desired trigger note or click it on the lower on-screen keyboard. You click the Record button and then play a chord or click its notes on the upper of two on-screen keyboards.
The simplest, no-frills plug-in for that is Max For Cats Chord Memorizer (Screen 1 above). Unlike Live's Chord effect, the trigger notes typically have no relation to the chords they trigger - they simply let you set up sections of your MIDI keyboard to play chords. The first job of any chord machine is to let you trigger chords by playing single MIDI notes. The 'Chord Machine Plug-ins' box lists nine powerful, modestly priced options. Fortunately, there are a variety of third-party devices for memorising and generating chords. But for any more than a few chords this process is both limited and a bit tedious. For more than one chord voicing, you can combine several of these in a MIDI Effect Rack, separate them by note range, and augment them with other Live MIDI effects such as Scale and Arpeggiator. The in-house solution is to use Live's Chord MIDI effect, which lets you dial in as many as six intervals at which notes are added to an incoming MIDI note. This month we'll look at several ways to generate chords in Live. We explore the wealth of third-party chord generators available for Live. Chord Transposer assigns a single chord to all notes and works well with Live's Scale effect.
With every key guaranteed to be within your selected scale, you can’t go wrong.Screen 1: Chord Memorizer assigns chords (yellow) to single notes (green). If you want to get your hands dirty playing chords, try the scale mode on Push. For more on the theory behind inverted chords, and to hear some examples, see this article in AskAudio Magazine.Īs of Live 9, you can also invert MIDI with the click of a button in a Clip - learn more about MIDI Clip editing tools. Finally, Certified Trainer Yeuda Ben-Atar aka SideBrain has a set of racks for generating minor and major chords, with control for each harmonic added.Īnother great technique for getting the most out of chords is to invert them - essentially, take an existing chord that you’ve played, then invert the note order from lowest to highest. AudioBombs’ Deep House Chords rack includes a set of switchable chords best suited to Deep House music.
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For a series of tweakable chord progressions for each key, try 8bitBandit’s Holy Scale. If you’re looking for another way to play through some chords, there are a few MIDI Effects Racks available to get you on your way.
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