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Chord Factory: hear the decision before you make it

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A music-composition workbench for building chords, progressions, voicings, bass parts, arpeggios, and melodic patterns, then sending the result to a DAW as MIDI.

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Chord Factory turns the circle of fifths into an interactive control surface with sixty chord types, fifty built-in progressions, seven voice-leading modes, odd metres up to 13/8, and patterns that can be changed while playing. It is unusually specific, technically ambitious, and clear about the compositional decisions it wants to expose.

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