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I would like to create a sequnce of chords that can be advanced by playing notes.

Example: I'd like the chord progression to be major - maj9 - maj7. When I play the first note on my keyboard I get a major chord. When I play the second i get a maj9 and so on.

Or can it be done with the chain function in a midi effect rack? I tried but I couldn't find a way to advance the chain selector by playing notes.

I think hoffman 2k made a pluggo which could help with this.

maybe it is somewhere on the covert ops site

it would play a sequence of notes one at a time. I imagine you could take that output and generate the chords based of that, with ableton plugs

longjohns wrote:I think hoffman 2k made a pluggo which could help with this.

maybe it is somewhere on the covert ops site

it would play a sequence of notes one at a time. I imagine you could take that output and generate the chords based of that, with ableton plugs

Not really what I'm after. I want to be able to make a sequence of chords that accepts any note input and advances to the next type of chord in the chord sequence with each new note input.

I feel like there's a chance to make something work..

if you had a stack of 3 clips on a "control" MIDI track, each with it's own settings for a chord plug

and sent the keyboard's MIDI through that plug

that part is easy enough to do...

what I can't seem to get going with a quick test is cycling through the three control clips with each incoming note. I can do it with scene launches, but that would limit how the rest of the .als file could operate..

so maybe this is where hoffman's device could come into play - to cycle through three control notes and send them in to the clips.

Hmmm... I might try it out.

But it would be easier if the chord effect could do it on its own.

possibly some way to generate the control notes with a random plug in alt mode, routed back into live over Midiyoke/IAC??