ChordSpace plugin: is it MIDI or audio?

andy.m · Post by **andy.m** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:40 pm

I just downloaded the ChordSpace VST plugin. I can't get it to work.

Is it a MIDI or an audio plugin? When I dropp it on a MIDI track, it turns it into an audio track. No sound is coming out of it.

I found no docs on the ChordSpace site. Support seems to be via email only.

Could anyone actually use the ChordSpace plugin?

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:52 pm

It's a midi generating softsynth, no audio. Here's the step by step:

1. Create 2 midi tracks
2. Rename track 1 to Chordspace and put an instance of Chordspace in it
3. Rename track 2 to CS Midi (or whatever name that helps you remember that Chordspace will dump the midi INTO that 2nd track).
4. Set the output of Chordspace track to CS Midi.
5. Either record enable or set monitor IN for CS Midi.
6. Record enable Chordspace track and play keys C2-C3 (it's on the plugin, which keys will actually trigger chordspace...

So what happens? You play a note, and Chordspace spits out midi chords, which then get recorded onto the 2nd track. For instant gratification, put any softsynth in CS Midi and it'll play the output of Chordspace.

andy.m · Post by **andy.m** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:07 pm

The problem I have is that track 1, after putting an instance of ChordSpace in it, becomes an audio track. So it has no MIDI out that can be routed to another track.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:13 pm

aah ok, now I remember what you have to do...

set the Input of CS Midi to Chordspace, and then there will be another dropdown just below it, where you have to choose Chordspace again.

andy.m · Post by **andy.m** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:18 pm

Thanks, now it is clearer.

andy.m · Post by **andy.m** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:06 pm

Still can't get no sound out of this setup.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:09 pm

Set the monitor for track 2 (old school) to In and make sure there's a synth plugin in there.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:24 pm

Does this do something that Live's chord plug-in can't do?

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:30 pm

beats me wrote:Does this do something that Live's chord plug-in can't do?

Live's Chord plug let's you make a predefined chord from one note...Chordspace has an interface taht helps you create all sorts of chords, chord changes, and wonderful sustains, and ninths and shit...helps with inspiration and happy accidents are welcome. It's a nice tool.

beats me · Post by **beats me** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:54 pm

Sounds wonderful . Can you sidechain chord with it?

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:00 pm

beats me wrote:Sounds wonderful . Can you sidechain chord with it?

Not on a mac, you pansy!

andy.m · Post by **andy.m** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:16 pm

nebulae wrote:Set the monitor for track 2 (old school) to In and make sure there's a synth plugin in there.

Now I can hear sound coming out of track 2 (Old School) when I play outside the note range defined in ChordSpace. When I play inside the note range defined in ChordSpace, some chord are selected in the ChordSpace screen, but no sound is heard.

I still have to figure out how this plugin works.

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:22 pm

http://www.chordspace.com/Practice.htm

andy.m · Post by **andy.m** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:39 pm

I'll have to practice a lot... to get some sound out of this plugin.

Grappadura · Post by **Grappadura** » Thu Jul 31, 2008 11:53 pm

you also have to press the "m"s in the chordspace plugin to activate the chords. I had to fiddle around too.