ChordFlow

HOW TO USE IT?

1. Create a chord progression.
2. Draw an arpeggio – the rhythmic and voice pattern for your chords.
3. Compose a melody.
4. Build a complete song adding more section.
5. Save your song, share or export to your favourite DAW as a MIDI file.

CHORD PROGRESSION
- Create chord progression of any length using intuitive chord selector providing a huge choice of chords.
- Move chords around within chord progression using drag and drop gestures.
- Add new chords at the end of the progression or in the middle.
- Make quantized jumps between chords while playing.

ARPEGGIO
- Specify the length and rate of the arpeggio grid. Length defines the number of steps in the sequence and rate define the speed at which the sequence is played.
- Add up to 4 tracks to your arpeggio grid. Each track has it’s color, octave and number of parallel voices.
To edit a track you select it with the track selection button, and then choose the required tool.
- Draw complex curves spanning several rows and columns of the arpeggio grid with just one move with Dots tool
- Draw long horizontal lines with Line tool
- Move entire track along the grid using the move tool
- Clear a region of the selected track with the eraser tool
- Remove the selected track entirely using the trash button
- Use undo/redo buttons to go back and forth in the edits history.
- Set Loop region to repeatedly play only the selected section of your arpeggio.

MELODY
- Create up to 4 melody tracks.
- Melodies are edited in their own grid, which also has length and rate params as the arpeggio grid.
- Select the root note and the scale for the melody grid. You can also show and hide non-scale notes using the “Chromatic” switch.
- Melody grid features the same collection of drawing tool as the arpeggio grid does.
- While drawing your melody you will see which chords correspond to the specific steps and also which notes of the grid match the notes of the chords.
- You can also set a loop region as in the arpeggio grid view.
- Undo/Redo aslo works the same way as in arpeggio grid.

SONG STRUCTURE
- A song can contain unlimited number of sections
- Each section has its own chord progression, arpeggio and melody parts
- Add, remove, reorder, rename and clone sections
- Make quantized or immediate jumps between sections while playing.
- Set a song loop mode. Loop one section. Loop entire song. Or play whole song once.

CONNECTIVITY
- Control any CoreMIDI compatible app
- Control desktop synths through USB or Wi-Fi
- Control hardware synths
- Specify MIDI destination and channel for each track
- Use ChordFlow as MIDI or Audio sender in Audiobus (http://audiob.us/)
- Play in sync with other apps running on the same device or on other devices in same Wi-Fi network using a new technology, Ableton Link (http://www.ableton.com/link/)

SHARE/EXPORT
- Share your projects by AirDrop, Mail, Dropbox or any other app supporting sharing .
- Export to Standard MIDI file and open it in the DAW of your choice(Ableton Live, Logic, GarageBand, etc. )

INTERNAL SOUNDS
ChordFlow has one built-in synth sound so you can start quickly. But for better results you should use ChordFlow as a MIDI controller with other synth apps. There are plenty of them in the App Store, paid and free. To name a few: GarageBand, Korg Gadget, Korg iM1, Animoog, SampleTank. You can also send MIDI to desktop synth apps like Ableton Live, Logic, Kontakt, etc.

SUPPORT / FEEDBACK
ChordFlow is not developed by a big company. There is only one of me. And I am very interested in making my apps useful and bug-free. So please contact me directly if you have bug reports, suggestions, questions, or just want to say something cool :)