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Archive · 2006 5 old posts

From the original SynthMaker forum (2004–2014), with its members’ names and dates.

Kara ·

Hello,

I would like to build a chord generator a bit in the style of those yamaha psr keyboards 'one finger' playing.

Since I'm realistic in my knowledge of SM and the learning curve implied, I have divided my project in 2 steps

Step 1 : Reconize incomming MIDI and build the chord from the standard incomming midi data To give you an Idea about those rules, which now all keyboards respect. > Play the root = gives the normal base chord > Play the root+one semitone below at the same time = Play the 7th chord > Most common chords are reconized by those rules.

Step 2 : Add a style definition to the project so that the chord would be played following a certain rythmic.

Question 1 --------------- Is this possible with SM. I'm not in a real hurry, know that I have to learn, but I don't want to get stuck in the midle of the project.

Question 2 --------------- I am worried about the chord generation. At the moment I was thinking about creating a definition file (text file) which holds the definition of the chords. Ex : Root = 0 + 4 + 7 , which means that a root chord is the actual incomming note + 4 semitones + 7 semitones Would this be the way to go, can SM read textfiles ? Or is there a better way to do that ?

Question 3 --------------- Somebody interested to work on this with me ?

Josh ·

Maybe this willl help you out Chord 😉

rayzer ·

have u tried creating chorded presets like if u had

osc1 = octave 0 semitone 0 osc2 = octave 1 semitone 0 osc3 = octave 1 semitone 7

i do this a lot in other vst presets and it gives me 1 finger chords

infuzion ·

Maybe you should contact this guy, since he made a chord generator in SM as well: http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2106.html

organmonsta ·

I would love to collaberate with you on this project, though my knowledge of SM is somewhat limited, I have good graphic skills, and also around 30 years working with electronic organs/keyboards that have autochords.

If you can crack this, you could be onto a hell of a winner!

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