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Chord Bank

A reusable collection of chord voicings, each stored as explicit MIDI notes for editing, comparison, and playback.

How it works

This object can carry concrete values or a musical interpretation, depending on its notation.

Written forms

Ways to write this concept

Each notation describes the same underlying object. Load a playable example to hear one MIDI realization in the Code Sequencer.

edit

Compact URL form of a chord bank — comma-separated `symbol:note-note-…` chords, with an optional leading `b<id>~` token recording the factory bank it derives from. Edits round-trip through this notation.

  • Am:57-60-64,F:53-57-60,C:48-52-55,G:55-59-62
  • b7~Cmaj7:60-64-67-71,Dm7:62-65-69-72
Choose Load beside a convertible example to open its live player. Some catalog formats describe analysis or a display label and have no note realization yet.
Sources and playback

Concept descriptions and examples were adapted from Codex Music Mono’s typed catalog and concept examples. The Code Sequencer plays MIDI through a connected instrument; Symbolic does not synthesize sound.