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Chord

Turn single notes into chords.

About

Chord takes every note you play and adds interval voices to make it a chord. The root note stays at its original velocity; added voices are scaled by the velocity knob so they can sit behind or match the root. Notes that would fall outside 0–127 are quietly dropped rather than wrapped.

The module tracks which notes it fanned out, so a note-off for the root releases all the chord voices cleanly. This is what makes it safe in front of any polyphonic instrument: held chords do not leak voices.

Signal graph.

Experimental

A sketch of the signal path, in the order of the parameter groups.

How it works.

Every noteOn looks up the current chord mode's interval set — [0, 4, 7] for major, [0, 3, 7] for minor, and so on — and emits a noteOn for each interval, offset by the spread octaves. The root is always emitted at original velocity; added voices are scaled. A noteOff for the root releases every voice the chord expanded into. Notes outside MIDI range 0–127 are suppressed.

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