I love this MIDI app!!
This app has been extremely useful to my songwriting. The developer is super friendly and responsive to any questions I’ve had. He even implemented a feature request I made in a very short period of time. To think that after 10 years this app is still being updated with new and interesting features!
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Does not work
Does not work with SampleTank any more on my iPad Pro M1 or Korg module
A revelation
I have been using this app for three years and I am still blown away by how powerful and enlightening the interface and layout is for arranging and writing
The App of my DREAMS!!
I was a professional music producer for 10 years, and if i had discovered this app THEN…
I literally don’t have to worry about my fingers’ ability to play what my mind is creating.
This is hands down, the single greatest VSTi, ever…and nobody knows it.
- J.Troup
I literally don’t have to worry about my fingers’ ability to play what my mind is creating.
This is hands down, the single greatest VSTi, ever…and nobody knows it.
- J.Troup
Very clever app, please update.
Whether you are a trained musician, or a sonic dabbler with no formal knowledge, this app can help. It looks complex, and is, but getting something from it is just a finger tap away. The app does so much work in the background, it’s almost impossible to make a mess. The only thing missing is midi in, and many month later it’s still missing. Now that Scaler 2 and Progressions are here this app needs updating with new features.
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Pretty please.
Very impressive app that desperately needs AUv3.
Please Malcolm!
Hi Malcolm, please make Chordmaps an AUV3 app, I implore you, its such a brilliant bit of kit, its crying out for an AUV3 version, I also understand its a lot of work but the IOS community will thank you for it!
Great concept and utility but
Update: It’s working again. Thank you for the response. I changed my star rating to 5 stars.
It stopped working... I can hear any sounds from it (Dec 2020, iOS 14.3).
It stopped working... I can hear any sounds from it (Dec 2020, iOS 14.3).
An irreplaceable part of my workflow
It offers inspiration and a creative way to not only explore chords but serves as an amazing performance device through it MIDI support. I use it virtually every day!
Amazing!
This app inspires the creation of unique chord progressions and transitions. Tons of fun and very useful!
Amazing and Powerful
Saw Doug at The Sound Test Room on YouTube give a tutorial...had to have it!
One Of The Most Useful Gifts To Humanity
This app allows those with no musical theory to actually understand it without paying a tutor! Being musical-theory-challenged myself, I would have done much better, had I had this.
Excellent, nothing less - get BS-16I to provide the synth and it is completely free solution!
Excellent, nothing less - get BS-16I to provide the synth and it is completely free solution!
This is an amazing app!!!!!!!
Watch the tutorial from The Sound Test Room on YouTube first, otherwise the interface can seem a bit overwhelming at first.
Disappointing
First off, this app is pretty useful and works well, but there are a couple peculiarities about it that bother me. For one, the 7th chord of the selected key is missing from most of the maps. But what REALLY irritates me is that you can’t select minor keys in any map except three (out of nine), and even then it’s a bit odd, because the 3rd chord is augmented. So you’re mostly confined to major scales, and only certain fixed chords within each map. This a huge bummer because the whole point of this app is exploring various chord combinations. It feels overpriced for what you're actually given to explore.
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If it only.....
I probably should give it 5 stars because it does everything it is suppose to do and it is a very powerful songwriting tool. The reason I only gave it 4 stars is because I have a wish list and I'm holding 1 star for ransom😊. If it only had midi in, it could be an instrument instead of just a tool. Please add an in app purchase option for midi in with midi note and cc mapping. AUv3 and OSC support would make this app indispensable. It would enable musicians to play ChordMaps2 from their existing midi controllers or build custom midi controllers using arduino platform or software such as Lemur or Midi Designer Pro.
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This Is Great!
You need to write music but you don’t have great instincts to composing chords to make a song? Don’t worry, this will greatly help you in your quest for musical harmony! Love the program, love the fact that you can easily tie it to your DAW, trigger and record the chord structures in your sequencer. Would like it even more if Chordmaps 3 (hint) could stand alone and included a few premium built sounds (piano, strings, guitars, some pads, bells and whistles, lol) that could be linked to the different sections and would allow you to just compose songs without the linking process to another DAW, but please keep ALL the features of this app you currently have. Thank you.
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Indispensable songwriting tool
This app is now an indispensable tool for me to make music. I can’t recommend this app enough.
With great power comes... um... a really crowded interface! 😜
This is, by far, the best music theory/performance interface out there. Probably not just for iPad but in general. Unfortunately it’s not exactly a pick it up, poke at it, and enjoy kind of thing.
The documentation is there, it just verbose and not really set up for musical neophytes to be able to understand. Which is unfortunate and a bit weird as this has serious potential to be an amazing learning and teaching tool for music theory. Even more odd since that’s precisely why the dev built it...
Anyway, if you can trudge though figuring it out, it’s ability to control up to like 7 different synth voices playing everything from chords, bass counter melody, melody, lead, solo, etc. all from one interface, all in a “musically coherent” manner is pretty amazing.
It’s probably better served pairing with hardware though because it’s full screen (and even that’s not enough) and a lot of app switching would be needed to really go nuts with the thing.
Buy it, learn it, love it!
The documentation is there, it just verbose and not really set up for musical neophytes to be able to understand. Which is unfortunate and a bit weird as this has serious potential to be an amazing learning and teaching tool for music theory. Even more odd since that’s precisely why the dev built it...
Anyway, if you can trudge though figuring it out, it’s ability to control up to like 7 different synth voices playing everything from chords, bass counter melody, melody, lead, solo, etc. all from one interface, all in a “musically coherent” manner is pretty amazing.
It’s probably better served pairing with hardware though because it’s full screen (and even that’s not enough) and a lot of app switching would be needed to really go nuts with the thing.
Buy it, learn it, love it!
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DOES NOT Get along well with GarageBand
This app is harder to use with GarageBand ...I contacted the developer and he replied by saying “please also buy this other app” which is even more expensive ...
Other than that... it seems quite useful... and I hope it continues to develop... how about some dynamics based on tilt...
Other than that... it seems quite useful... and I hope it continues to develop... how about some dynamics based on tilt...
No midi
Might be a good app, but it has no midi. I have
several keyboards and synths, all of which show up, but checked or not, there is no sound. Junk!
several keyboards and synths, all of which show up, but checked or not, there is no sound. Junk!
