Chord Memorizer

[Lytz1]

This is basically my most-wanted feature request which would also tie in perfectly into the Metro design philosophy:

Just a "Simple Chord" player option added to the Revolution Arp.Or a so called Chord-Memorizer.
(So no Arp at all, just the option to play a whole chord when pressing a single key, i.e. sus4, man, min, etc.
(for example see mucoder tonespace for a rather complex example, which is of course way more sophisticated tool,
but just some simple chord memorizer would be a great and useful addition.)


By the way, I dont want to start a new topic on that, but the Render per-track implementation in Metro is the best I' ve seen yet.
The way it works still tops brand new apps like Studio One and Bitwig Studio.
This is what I like about Metro, usually the stuff implemented here is implemented very very well.


Best,

tL.

[Jerm]

Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately I do not understand what you mean.

Can you please go in to more depth. How precisely would the 'chord memorizer' work? What would the interface look like? etc., etc.

I just went and looked at tonespace 2.0. Why not just use that as a VST?

[Lytz1]

Hey Jeremy,

first , take a look at the picture that I attached, that should explain what it does.

the advantage of having the ability in Metro is the same like with the arpeggiator.
I could use a vst arpeggio as well, but its just not that elegant like the way you have implemented the revolution arp.

With an internal chordmemorizer we could easily jump between tracks and it would be right "in the now". Vst requires setpup and routing
and recording the sequence and so on. Thats not quite as elegant.

And maybe you might even come up with some more crazy ideas
what to do with that concept once the basic one is implemented..

Tonespace for once is too far outthere.I was thinking about something simple, (like in the screenshot) which is fast, fun and easy to work with.
(Just like working with the arp and the rythms in METRO.

Best,

tL.

[Jerm]

Hey Jeremy,

first , take a look at the picture that I attached, that should explain what it does.

the advantage of having the ability in Metro is the same like with the arpeggiator.
I could use a vst arpeggio as well, but its just not that elegant like the way you have implemented the revolution arp.
.

Okay I understand now and it seems like a cool idea and should be fairly easy to implement. The downsides are the difficulties implementing the UI and it may be confusing for unsuspecting users.

What is the maximum number of notes that can be assigned to a single key?

[Lytz1]

Hello Jeremy,

well, I dont know the limitations per note, I guess there are none. At least none that I know of in Logic and Cubase.

Actually I think there shouldnt be more notes than needed for a sus9 (plus 2 more for "left hand" ) for example, that would make it a max. of 7 notes per single note played,

thats more than enough. Probably for most uses 4-5 would be sufficient. (and of course the possibility of a preset library to save whole chord-scales for later use. )

(Maybe the Metro Keyboard Popup Window where also the Revolution Arp can be enabled would be a good starting point. Propably a second checkbox below the one of the revolution arp to enable a second row of keys for a memorizer?)

Hope that helps.

Best,

tL.