Is there a plugin that tells you what chord you are playing?

The Northern Contingent · Post by **The Northern Contingent** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 8:44 pm

Quite often when making music I play notes together randomly till I hear something I like. Problem is I often don't know what the actual chord is that I'm playing as I am stupid. Is there a plugin that can tell you this?

janiq · Post by **janiq** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:39 pm

thats one of the features i like about logic pro (when you use midi it shows you what notes, chord you are playing). i tried to find program you are looking for but it seems there is no any at the moment. maybe you can try the other way around. at home i use :

http://www.cognitone.com/company/article.stml?o=122

Harmony Navigator 2 LE

you can build midi progressions and then import it to live.

hope that helps.

The Northern Contingent · Post by **The Northern Contingent** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:43 pm

Hello - thanks very much for the reply but I am really looking for something that reads back your chords for you. I already have an app on my phone that suggests chord progressions and I'd like to use the two in tandem with each other when writing.

I should mention too that I am on a mac.

dsu · Post by **dsu** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:02 pm

Melodyne Editor will tell you the notes and then you can figure out the cords. I use Melodyne Essentials which can only handle monophonic material. Very cool for figuring out what the vocalist sang when they sing between the notes.
check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6D33snB ... re=related

The Northern Contingent · Post by **The Northern Contingent** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:07 pm

Hello - I have Melodyne Editor which is nothing short of musical wizardry, but what I am looking for is a plugin that actually tells me the chord name itself (eg. Am6, D5, Badd9 etc.) As far as I know Melodyne can't do this? I'd love to be wrong...

RajahP · Post by **RajahP** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:26 pm

The Northern Contingent wrote:Quite often when making music I play notes together randomly till I hear something I like. Problem is I often don't know what the actual chord is that I'm playing as I am stupid. Is there a plugin that can tell you this?

Shift should not be that difficult for development... Broomstick bass/ Virtual Guitarist/ Virtual Bassist has it (all dead programs anyway)... But there is a M4l patch that does it somewhere... It's Harmony Analyzer..

Maybe you can down;load the Broomstick Bass demo and use it as a Chord Recognition program..

eddiex · Post by **eddiex** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:33 pm

hey there..just a suggestion....you should try and get a book on music theory. it will be a lot more helpful in the long run than an app or plug in that just tells you what chords you are playing.
it will help you gain understanding as to why a certain chord has certain notes in it..etc. etc. and once you gain even a little bit of music theory knowledge, it will open your songwriting up.

The Northern Contingent · Post by **The Northern Contingent** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:38 pm

eddiex wrote:hey there..just a suggestion....you should try and get a book on music theory. it will be a lot more helpful in the long run than an app or plug in that just tells you what chords you are playing.
it will help you gain understanding as to why a certain chord has certain notes in it..etc. etc. and once you gain even a little bit of music theory knowledge, it will open your songwriting up.

Yes - you're right of course. Any you might recommend? Particularly with an electronic music slant?

eddiex · Post by **eddiex** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:48 pm

dude, i mean you are going to think this is totally lame....but for starters i would get something like "the idiots guide to music theory" then go from there...it is a pretty decent book and it makes a lot of things easy to understand.
as far as being electronic music specific.....all music pretty much follows the same rules. a C Major scale is the same notes on a keyboard as it is on a guitar as it is on a piano roll where you program midi notes....once you learn a few of those rules...it doesn't matter if a book or instrument is electronic music specific..... good luck bro.

stringtapper · Post by **stringtapper** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 8:49 pm

http://www.amazon.com/Music-Theory-Comp ... 1598635034

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:23 am

Try Nutchords. Its a little standalone program where you can click the notes you're playing and it will tell you the chord. I use it all the time for that and working out scales. It does keyboard and guitar too.

http://www.brothersoft.com/nut-chords-32-6329.html

The Northern Contingent · Post by **The Northern Contingent** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:57 pm

Thanks everyone - you're help is much appreciated. The online chord identifier above from funken is just what I'm looking for - thanks very much! The other one is non-Mac unfortunately, but your help is still very kind.

Thank you!

nathannn · Post by **nathannn** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:40 pm

@ op, you said you have an app that tells you chord progressions? what app is that?

The Northern Contingent · Post by **The Northern Contingent** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:03 pm

It's called 'ProChords' - great for sketching ideas. You can email the MIDI file it produces to yourself as well so they can be edited in your DAW.

Jarvisimon · Post by **Jarvisimon** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:28 pm

Don't want to be clever or anything but you could argue that chords are just smaller parts of a 7 note scale. So rather than learn what the chords are, you'd learn more by working on the scales.

A friend of mine is a musicologist and he's figured out a chart with this in mind. If anyone here wants to code it as an app, it could be a stunningly excellent means of writing music as it can be as simple or complex as you like but always musical.

It would also make an excellent live performance plug-in.

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