Steffen Mølgaard Larsen has updated ChordPond, available for $2.99.
What’s new in version 1.2:
- Improvements
- Added Scene Automation for building full song arrangements
- Added 15 new scales, including modal, exotic. and jazz scales
- Added sus2 and sus4 chord types
- Added 30-step canvas undo Faster pad editing with direct drag-and-drop
- Added chord audition on tap.
- Added background audio playback with mix- with-others support
- Fixes
- Improved strum and note clipping behavior on shortened pads
- Strum voices now sustain correctly through the full chord length
- Fixed AUv3 MIDI output compatibility with Logic Pro for iPad
Sketch progressions as paths through chord tiles. Play them, route MIDI to your synths, or load as an AUv3 MIDI plugin that follows your host’s tempo and transport.
ChordPond – Visual Chord-Tile Sequencer
ChordPond is a tactile chord sequencer for iPad and iPhone where progressions become paths through chord tiles. Drop a chord on the canvas, draw a path between tiles, hit play – and send the MIDI to any synth on your device or to any AUv3 host.
Built for songwriters, producers, live performers, and playful souls ChordPond turns chord progressions into something you can see, touch, and rearrange in
seconds.
ChordPond is intentionally focused – no built-in synth no clutter. Just chords, paths, scenes, and MIDI out to whatever instruments you love.
Features include:
- Visual chord tiles on a freeform canvas
- Scale-aware voicings, tensions, inversions, and bass control
- Multiple play modes per tile – Hold, Stutter, Roll Arp, Motif
- Paths: draw the order tiles trigger in – with per-node and ratchet duration, gate
- Scenes: multiple progressions per project, switch on the fly
- Progression presets – jazz, pop, modal, and more, applied with one tap
- Per-tile step grid with user notes, velocity, micro- and ratchets timing,
- AUv3 MIDI processor – embeds the full editor in any
- AUv3 host, follows host transport and tempo, sample- accurate MIDI output
- CoreMIDI to external instruments
- Shared project library between the standalone app and the AUv3 plugin (App Group)
- Touch-optimized performance controls
- Designed for iPhone, iPad, MacOS (Catalyst
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