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Nota Chord

Nota Chord builds a chord from every note you play. Each incoming note is optionally kept and joined by up to six added voices at fixed semitone offsets, so a single key becomes a full voicing — play chords with one finger, thicken a line, or add a fixed harmony above a part.

The Nota Chord device card: chord-type strip, a six-voice shifts stack, and a result panel with a keyboard preview.

Overview

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Nota Chord sits before an instrument in a track’s device chain and adds voices to each note as it passes through:

MIDI in ─▶ per note: keep root? + added voices (offset · velocity) ─▶ fold · spread · strum ─▶ MIDI out

Each voice is a semitone offset from the played note with its own relative velocity. Extra shaping opens or animates the voicing without you re-entering the offsets.

Interface

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The card (mockup 3b) is a live strip over a shifts stack and a result panel.

  • Live strip — CHORD type chips (Maj7 · Min7 · Sus4 · 5th · Custom) that fill the voices for you; a STRUM slider; and the Keep root and Fold in scale toggles.
  • Shifts — the six voices as rows: an activity dot, the interval label (off, +oct, −oct or a semitone count), a bipolar semitone slider, and a drag-to-set velocity offset. A voice at 0 semitones is off.
  • Result — the resulting chord for a reference C3 shown as note names, a legend (played vs added), a two-octave keyboard preview lighting the sounding notes, plus the active VOICES count and the SPREAD amount.

Parameters

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Parameter Range What it does
Voice 1–Voice 6 -24…+24 st Semitone offset of each added voice from the played note. 0 turns the voice off.
Vel 1–Vel 6 -100…+100 % Per-voice velocity offset relative to the played note.
Keep Root on / off Whether the originally played note is passed through.
Strum 0…120 ms Spreads the chord’s note-ons over time, low to high.
Spread 0…100 % Opens the voicing by pushing higher voices up in octaves.
Fold on / off Snaps each added voice into the played note’s major scale.

Tips & recipes

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  • One-finger chords: pick a chord chip (e.g. Maj7) and play single notes — each becomes the full voicing.
  • Human strum: set Strum to 20–40 ms so the notes arrive like a guitar strum instead of all at once.
  • Stay in key: turn on Fold in scale so added voices bend to the played note’s major scale instead of holding fixed intervals.
  • Wide pad: raise Spread to lift the upper voices into higher octaves.

See also

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