MPC chordfinder - online tool to locate chords on the MPC

mgherkins wrote:Even that way you'll end up playing a lot of inversions, which is not necessarily a bad thing IMHO.
Did i miss any of those?

are you asking what chord shapes are missing. Yes lots and not just inversions.
If you do not know this then I find it a bit lame and wonder if you got em right to. just my 2 cents and i seem a bit rude, but come on if you had to ask me that then you do not know much music theory. I mean there are only what 15 or so chord shapes and that is WTF to me. I use all 32 in my chord bank and change it up a lot to make more. In fact i will only be happy when there are 64 instead - so yeah a lot are missing. And yeah most might seem a bit out there like and unused much like min7added9 or sus4added6th but hell if ya want to do it right or love jazz, bepob, hip hop, reggae, funk you will eventually play those strange chords. So lots more work till I even think it is any good. Looks ok and is good like I said but woeful on the actual chord shape front to some one like me.

might I also suggest more contrast to on the pad colours to make it a lot easier to see quickly. I think if you make it actually really easy to read quick and say at a distance then it would be even more useful. I do a lot of fixing design up in prepress work and that would not be good for visual communication and I would suggest that if it was print media as well. just saying more contrast, and ditch any pretense about making it arty or cool design cos it is at the expense of actually working well.

my 2 cents of course and like i said i am not trying to have a go at ya. I mean you did ask us right?

cool
peace

like i said

Any feedback is appreciated

so,thanks.
i've updated it with some more chord types.
it's still no encyclopedia, but might help someone getting started with some basic chords...

cheers

Possibly posted this in the forum where least people would see it. Production techniques may have been better as it relates to all MPCs and studio work in particular.

Will check out the OP when I get to a computer, sounds interesting. I remember doing a tutorial on triggering chords from MPC pads a few years ago, there wasn't much interest then.

tapedeck wrote:the only problem with doing it for default layout (2kxl at least) is that the chords might cover multiple pad banks.

also on the xl you can't really record 'chords' with 16-levels as it only records one note + variation.
you can however do this over multiple tracks.

do the other mpcs behave the same way, or can you have more than one note var per note? i know on 1k/2.5k you can have two - but three?

still a very cool app - useful for when you DO have your pads laid out chromatically.

you can record chords w 16 level, you just need to have each note on a separate tick. I've found it works if I'm not quantizing.

mQueue wrote:

tapedeck wrote:the only problem with doing it for default layout (2kxl at least) is that the chords might cover multiple pad banks.

also on the xl you can't really record 'chords' with 16-levels as it only records one note + variation.
you can however do this over multiple tracks.

do the other mpcs behave the same way, or can you have more than one note var per note? i know on 1k/2.5k you can have two - but three?

still a very cool app - useful for when you DO have your pads laid out chromatically.

you can record chords w 16 level, you just need to have each note on a separate tick. I've found it works if I'm not quantizing.

thats an awesome hack