Laurent Colson has updated ChordPolyPad, available for $17.99.
What’s new in version 3.0:
- Advanced random chord generator with 16 musical moods (organized by Complexity Emotional, and Atmospheric categories) featuring voice leading and context-aware harmonic progressions for naturally flowing compositions
- New global scale system where the chord keyboard visually greys out notes outside the selected scale
- Scale selector can now quantize the selected pad, the selected group, or all pads
- New scale section allowing the creation of custom scales
- Standardized scale names for improveo clarity
- Redesigned preset selector, now supporting in-app purchase packs
- Three new preset packs available as in-app purchases: Liminal Spaces, Clubwave, and Retro Pop. Each pack includes 6 free presets to explore
- New option to color the entire pad
- New option to automatically stop Audio Background when the app is inactive (15 min, 30 min, 1 h, 2 h, or never)
- Minor bug fixes
ChordPolyPad is a MIDI chords player that allows you to create chord sets from a large internal library, from any combination of notes, or from chords generated randomly. Each set consists of 8 groups of 16 pads, or 2 groups of 64 pads.
In addition to play chords, each pad can generate customizable MIDI controls on its horizontal and vertical axis.
Features include:
- Standalone application and AUv3 MIDI effect plug-in
- 8 groups of 16 pads or 2 groups of 64 pads by preset (128 pads)
- MIDI port and MIDI channel assignable for each pad
- Customizable X/Y controller for each pad
- Velocity assignable for each chord note
- Strumming setup by pad
- Copy and paste for pads and groups
- Draggable chords directly from library
- Searching for chords available in a defined scale
- Random chords for instant inspiration
- Multitasking
- Internal sound bank
- Receiving MIDI notes and control from external devices
- Send MIDI to a virtual port that can be used as MIDI input by other “Core MIDI” compatible applications
- Presets manager
- “Program Change” support
- Preset sharing support by “AirDrop”, “Mail”, “Message” and other available services
- Native iCloud support
- “iCloud Drive” support in “Files” app on iOS and in “Finder” on macOS
- Full support of “Split View” and “Slide Over”
- Undo/Redo
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