AvailableMIDI & Modulation

Chord

Turn single notes into chords.

@maru shared this module so you can play it in your DAW, remix it or put it on your site.

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What it does

A MIDI chord generator. Every note you play becomes a chord: Chord adds fixed intervals above it and sends the result on to an instrument. It makes no sound of its own.

Good to know

When you release a key, Chord releases every note that key produced, so held chords never leave notes hanging. Added notes that would fall outside the MIDI range are left out rather than wrapped into another octave.

Guide and controls

How it works.

Every noteOn looks up the current chord mode's interval set ([0, 4, 7] for major, [0, 3, 7] for minor, and so on) and emits a noteOn for each interval, offset by the spread octaves. The root is always emitted at original velocity; added voices are scaled. A noteOff for the root releases every voice the chord expanded into. Notes outside MIDI range 0–127 are suppressed.

What would you make with Chord?

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Building block

Transpose notes by semitones and octaves.

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Shape, compress, or randomize note velocities.

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Add timing and velocity jitter for human feel.

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Walk held notes through a rhythmic pattern.