Run it in Guided Access
love the app & use it with Riff Station, which give me the chords from any song & transpose it to what Polychord can handle.
While strumming Polychord, you can accidentally shrink & close it, … so I lock the app down by running it with IPad Guided Access.
Thanks sooo much for a great running app. My wish is to be able to select the individual chords to place on the palette.
While strumming Polychord, you can accidentally shrink & close it, … so I lock the app down by running it with IPad Guided Access.
Thanks sooo much for a great running app. My wish is to be able to select the individual chords to place on the palette.
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UPDATE PRETTY PLEASE!
Really dope app! Sooooooooo wish they would update it. I’d pay for an update!!!
Please Update!!!
Loved this app for a minute until it stopped getting updated.
Really wish the Devs would make it work again; and if that ever happens I’m crossing my fingers that it’s with AUv3.
Really wish the Devs would make it work again; and if that ever happens I’m crossing my fingers that it’s with AUv3.
Pretty cool but not in active development
Virtual MIDI was not quite ever updated.
Wonderful!
Very nice chord and styles machine....I really love it!
Not compatible
I have above os 8. Will not update saying not compatible. Paid good money for this app :-(
Still can't update
When this app introduced 64bit support I was unable to update it on my iphone 5 or my iPad 4th gene, I was gutted at the thought that 64bit support = no more 32bit updates. Then it did indeed update at a later date on my iphone 5. But its still nagging me to update on the 4th gen iPad but tells me it's not compatible and offers me the version I already have.. Please fix it :( after all these months no reply from the dev.. Why don't devs read reviews from 4 stars to one. :(
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Not worth $$$
Unless I'm missing something pretty major, there's no way this app is worth ten bucks.
Lowering to one star... Midi out for arp and bass don’t send midi off’s... could be so cool. As it is now, it’s broken and seems to be abandoned...
Lowering to one star... Midi out for arp and bass don’t send midi off’s... could be so cool. As it is now, it’s broken and seems to be abandoned...
No longer compatible...
Really disappointing that the first version with 64 bit support is no longer compatible with my 3rd gen iPad. The OS on my iPad is newer the required version so there's really no excuse.
Updated! Thank you!
Beautifully thought out interface and expressive to play. I adore this app!
Was My fave Music App
Well worth the price and now with Audiobus!!!
For all Stereolab fans
Update: not sure why new update makes it incompatible with my iPad? It's not that old!
For all Stereolab fans
Update: not sure why new update makes it incompatible with my iPad? It's not that old!
Disappointing Upgrade
Unable to upgrade. '"polycord" is not compatible with this iPad' Wasted purchase!!!
Update plz!!!
Fansastic. I have an Omnichord 300 and this app is so much like it. It's going to be a lot of fun. But when it was downloaded off the app store and opened, my iPad gave a message saying the app needed an update to play. Well the app does play but I'm wouldn't know which parts of the app aren't supported. My iPad is updated to the lasted version, 10.3.2. thanks pjay
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Abandoned app
This app gives ios a bad name.
Great app, but please update
This app deserves more praise, but I also wish it were updated to guarantee compatibility with the OS.
Most used app
I never learned to play entirely, so chords have always been a challenge. I get all the pads and chord progressions I could ever want out of this... I can even play back chords I hear that I like with a little scale digging.
I really wish I had this app all these years of struggling to make music. It really is a breeze now with minimal understanding of how to carry over my polycord scales to melody and further harmony.
I really wish I had this app all these years of struggling to make music. It really is a breeze now with minimal understanding of how to carry over my polycord scales to melody and further harmony.
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Inspiring harmonic tool
I love how easy it is to experiment with chord progressions here. The MIDI feature means i can hook it up to any of my synths or samplers, and the arpeggiator is easy to use and fun to customize. I hope the devs keep this app current, because it's a great part of my arsenal (you know, for doing "real musician" stuff).
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Polychord is a jewel (even for "real" musicians)
I love Polychord. Love it. I have less than no no use for "musical toy" apps, but this one is deceptively clever, and deceptively useful. IF you bother to figure it out. I love it. OK?
— Polychord can be used to create decent accompaniments and loose improvisations by anyone, at any level, who might be willing to think a bit.
— And if you love sound, harmonic texture and melody in a more "freeform" way, it can be a lot of fun without much thought at all... though even a little thought is advised, just because you have it to spare, and it's worth it. You might even internalize a little harmonic understanding, and maybe gain some additional melodic sense (or "feel"), with the right approach.
— At least one previous review states that the app is useless for "real musicians." That is simply and flatly wrong, at least as a general, sweeping statement.
— Though I'm sure the reviewer is at least as intelligent as I am, the statement could not be more ignorant.
— The app is very likely less useful for some particular styles, it may be problematic for a subset of those styles, and it certainly isn't meant to be a primary studio instrument, but there's plenty here for working out progressions, accompanying initial melodic work, building a scratch texture as a backdrop for recording, and more. That its uses and usefulness vary by style and user should not be a surprise to anyone. But...
— A little off topic, and just my 0.02... but if an object makes noise, and if that noise is variable, it is best to approach any comment regarding uselessness of with extreme skepticism, initially. Plenty of of "proofs of concept" in the wild regarding the musicality of any number of unfamiliar doodads, if you're awake, and if you're "musical" ... and we can leave the term "real" elsewhere.
— And in response to the complaint regarding limited voices (sounds), I would like to propose a licensing requirement for the submission of written reviews.
The testing process:
1) Read a short description of a widget
(any kind).
2) Fiddle with the widget a bit.
3) Write some random comments
about that widget.
You pass and are issued a license ONLY IF your comments DO NOT get playground whiny when the widget DOES NOT do things THE DESCRIPTION SAID THE WIDGET WOULD NOT DO. (And if you can't parse that sentence, wait; you still need the training wheels, for now.)
— Y'all can figure it from there.
— Polychord can be used to create decent accompaniments and loose improvisations by anyone, at any level, who might be willing to think a bit.
— And if you love sound, harmonic texture and melody in a more "freeform" way, it can be a lot of fun without much thought at all... though even a little thought is advised, just because you have it to spare, and it's worth it. You might even internalize a little harmonic understanding, and maybe gain some additional melodic sense (or "feel"), with the right approach.
— At least one previous review states that the app is useless for "real musicians." That is simply and flatly wrong, at least as a general, sweeping statement.
— Though I'm sure the reviewer is at least as intelligent as I am, the statement could not be more ignorant.
— The app is very likely less useful for some particular styles, it may be problematic for a subset of those styles, and it certainly isn't meant to be a primary studio instrument, but there's plenty here for working out progressions, accompanying initial melodic work, building a scratch texture as a backdrop for recording, and more. That its uses and usefulness vary by style and user should not be a surprise to anyone. But...
— A little off topic, and just my 0.02... but if an object makes noise, and if that noise is variable, it is best to approach any comment regarding uselessness of with extreme skepticism, initially. Plenty of of "proofs of concept" in the wild regarding the musicality of any number of unfamiliar doodads, if you're awake, and if you're "musical" ... and we can leave the term "real" elsewhere.
— And in response to the complaint regarding limited voices (sounds), I would like to propose a licensing requirement for the submission of written reviews.
The testing process:
1) Read a short description of a widget
(any kind).
2) Fiddle with the widget a bit.
3) Write some random comments
about that widget.
You pass and are issued a license ONLY IF your comments DO NOT get playground whiny when the widget DOES NOT do things THE DESCRIPTION SAID THE WIDGET WOULD NOT DO. (And if you can't parse that sentence, wait; you still need the training wheels, for now.)
— Y'all can figure it from there.
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Doesn't work with garage band
Cool app, but doesn't send midi to garage band. Or Thor. Thor works for about one second, then poly chord bombs.
Works with Magellan.
Works with Magellan.
If your an actual musician, don't waste your money like I did
I was intrigued... I spent the $9.99... I got a drum section that sounds right out of a cheap arcade game... I got chords that sound like a child's toy... there's absolutely nothing here a real musician would find useful in helping your music (unless your creating music for arcade games or children's toys). Dang it... What a waste of $10 bucks! There should be a way to sample apps like this before you waste your hard earned money....
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