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  • Fascinating

    A couple of years ago I downloaded Navichord Lite on a whim. After a day of playing with it, I purchased the full version. It's a fascinating way to explore chord sequences and harmonic progressions. And the app has seen a lot of great updates over the last couple of years, so it's even better now than it was when I first learned about it.

    I will give this advice to those who are thinking about buying Navichord: working with the iPad version of the app and with the iPhone version are two very different experiences. The latter is much less versatile, and the fact that there is only room for the keyboard to show one octave at a time makes it hard to try out different melodic ideas over a set of chords. Even so, I still would have considered it well worth the $9 (I think that's what I paid for it) if I didn't own an iPad.
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    Developer Response

    Thank you for reviewing! 🙏 We listen - iCloud support is coming in the next version!
  • Glitch?

    For some reason, when i click the edit button and then try to press the square on the bottom right of the chord, nothing happens. I can no longer edit any of the chords.

    Developer Response

    Please update to 2.6.13 (Dec 29, 2020). If the problem remains please reach to support@navichord.com
  • Checked all my boxes

    I figured out everything despite poor documentation and on line demos not answering my questions. I had a problem with midi notes hanging in AUM but the fix was not to have any inputs set in the AUv3 and use the AUM midi settings. Also the chords would loop no matter if I hit play and not the loop button. Found that if you put the chords in the last section of the song when you just hit play it will stop when the chords stopped. Other than that midi control is great and midi learn worked great with options for cc and note mapping to controls.
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  • Crashes frequently.

    Crashing upon opening, 2020 11 inch iPad Pro.
  • Opened up a whole world to me

    I am a video artist and I have been a musician all of my life -even studying to be a professional violinist when in College. But I was never very proficient at the keyboard and harmony was, for me, always a difficult subject. Navichord has opened the world of harmony to my visual/spatial mind! I am now able to score my own video artwork using Navichord as a composition tool and as a MIDI interface to Logic Pro. A fantastic app for people like me!
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  • Junk

    Great looking app. Wish I could use it, but without some sort of manual it’s worthless. Spent several hours poking around and watching YouTube videos. A waste of time. Yes, I do know music theory, but not Navichord theory.
  • 5 seconds

    Awesome
  • Powerful Tool

    This thing is incredible. Its helpful on the iPhone but becomes a true composition tool on the IPad. It helps you feel your way through ideas and progressions, voicing, chord character, ....and it doesn’t get in the way. It has everything for someone who truly wants to develop a song idea from whole cloth. Can’t say enough.
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  • Many glitches

    Pro version. I memorized a short chord sequence: a Maj13 (5 notes), a min7(4 notes) and a 9 (5notes) correctly written on the pad but when played back the Maj 13 became a 6 (4 notes) and the 9 a 7 (4 notes), So the pad indicating one chord and the loop playing (and showing on upper left and navichord) a different one! The tutorial says you can memorize 5 notes chords ...
    I found a way to select 5-notes chords (using the library but not from navichord keyboard). However randomly they are converted in 4-notes chords when played back.
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    Developer Response

    Hello, so far we were not able to reproduce the issue. Please contact us via support@navichord.com, we need more details to fully understand fully the issue (iOS version, iPad/iPhone, etc).
  • No midi or audio export

    Is that coming or am I missing something?

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