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Find and play chords with Chord Pads

Audition suggested chords for your key, shape their voicing and write them into your song.

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Step by step

  1. 01

    Choose MIDI → Chord Pads and select an instrument or MIDI track to play through.

  2. 02

    Press a pad to audition its chord; the suggestions re-rank to follow the chord you played.

  3. 03

    Pick a Key and Scale, or let them come from the scale track at the playhead.

  4. 04

    Shape the chord with Voicing, Inv and Oct.

  5. 05

    Turn on insert mode so clicking a pad also writes the chord at the playhead.

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