Canon vs PolyPipe

Unlock endless minor, sad, guitar, jazz, piano & ukulele chord progressions. Randomize. Customize. Compose. Canon is the ultimate random chord generator and progression composer for musicians, producers, and worship leaders. Whether you need minor chord progressions for emotional depth, sad chord progressions for melancholic moods, guitar chord progressions for acoustic pieces, piano chord progressions for classical arrangements, or jazz chord progressions for improvisation—Canon delivers instant inspiration powered by 1.5M real songs. CREATE YOUR WAY Canon adapts to your workflow with three distinct creation modes: - Instant Inspiration: Fully randomize any progression type (minor, sad, jazz, guitar, piano, ukulele) with a single click to find unique sounds you wouldn't normally play. - Intelligent Discovery: Use our smart Chord Decks to select chords that fit your mood and style perfectly. - Total Control: Manually build progressions chord-by-chord for precise composition. CORE FEATURES - Random Chord Generator: Tap "Reroll" for instant progression inspiration - Instrument-Specific Tools: Play your chords strummed to resemble guitar, and ukulele chord progressions - Realistic Playback: Hear your progressions come alive with authentic sounds - Studio-Ready MIDI Export: Drag progressions directly into Logic, Ableton, GarageBand, and more - Infinite Progressions: No length limits. Build loops or complete song structures - Master Every Key: Transpose any progression to suit your vocal range or instrument - Band Collaboration: Share progressions with bandmates during rehearsal WHY CANON? We believe technology should serve the artist. Canon is built to be invisible—powerful enough for complex theory, simple enough to focus on what matters: the song. Download Canon and discover your next progression today.

PolyPipe is a multi-lane, polyphonic AUv3 sequencer plugin designed for creating evolving musical patterns rather than fixed, repetitive loops. Instead of thinking in terms of a single step sequence, PolyPipe lets you build multiple independent lanes, each with its own rhythm, pitch logic, octave behavior, probability, and modulation data — all running together as a coherent musical system. It comprises elements of some of my favourite sequencers of all time, all rolled into a single interface. At its core, PolyPipe takes incoming MIDI notes (or internally generated notes) and uses them as a musical “seed.” These notes are then processed through patterns, scales, transposition rules, and step logic to generate new musical phrases in real time. This makes it especially suited for generative music, complex arpeggiation, bass-and-chord splitting, and long-form evolving sequences. Each lane in PolyPipe is its own sequencer voice. A lane contains one or more patterns, and each pattern is made up of steps. Steps don’t just define when a note plays — they can also define how it plays. A step can include pitch offsets, velocity, gate length, strumming, probability, repeats (ratchets), ties for legato behavior, and even chord information. Patterns can be enabled or disabled independently, shifted by octaves, and combined with global transposition. Because lanes can have different lengths, directions, and step modes, the resulting sequences naturally phase against each other, creating variation without manual intervention. PolyPipe applies musical logic at the MIDI output stage rather than hard-coding notes upfront. Pitch values can be forced into a chosen scale and key, allowing even highly experimental patterns to stay musically coherent. Different step modes (such as forward, backward, ping-pong, random, chord, bass, or hybrid note/chord modes) let each lane behave differently, from traditional arpeggios to controlled chaos. PolyPipe Sequencer is built for musicians who want to explore ideas quickly, create unique patterns, and discover results they wouldn’t think to program manually. It rewards experimentation: small changes to probability, repeats, or step logic can dramatically alter the musical output while staying rhythmically locked and musically usable. PolyPipe Features ○ Multi-Lane Sequencer: with 4 independent lanes. ○ Pattern-Based Structure: where each lane contains multiple patterns. ○ Advanced Step Parameters: including pitch offset, velocity, gate length, auto-roll, repeats (ratchets), and legato ties. ○ Chord-Aware Steps: allowing steps to trigger chords, rotated voicing, or individual notes depending on lane mode. ○ Multiple Step Modes such as Up, Down, Ping-Pong, Random, Drunk, Chord, Bass, and hybrid note/chord modes. ○ Chord Strumming: allowing guitar like strumming patterns. ○ Polyrhythmic Playback: through lanes and patterns of differing lengths and directions. ○ Probabilistic Sequencing: with per-step chance and variable repeat behavior for evolving patterns. ○ Octave Transposition Control: per pattern and globally for rapid harmonic variation. ○ MIDI CC Sequencing: allowing lanes to output modulation data. ○ Real-Time MIDI Interaction: where incoming notes influence pitch selection, chords, and playback behavior. ○ Live-Safe Parameter Editing: with immediate feedback and no need to stop playback. ○ Generative-Focused Design: optimized for long-form evolving sequences rather than static loops. ○ Long Patterns: up to 32 steps in length, chain-able up to 128 steps. ○ 4 MIDI Output Ports: allowing each of the 4 phase-locked arpeggiators to be routed to a different instrument. ○ Global Swing: allowing 8th- and 16th-note swing across all 4 arpeggiators. ○ Rhythm Generator: creates rhythmic patterns that are none chord/scale specific.