Menu

This menu gives you access to every setting contained within the chordboard including the following:

Chord Style

How the chord pads are name. The chords themselves don't change — only what's written on them.

• Numbers — the Nashville-style 1 through 6.
• Roman — I through vi, with the case telling you major from minor.
• Solfege — Do through La.

Output

This settings determine whether the chordboard's notes leave the app via MIDI note events, or stay local to make sounds with an adjacent toneboard.

• Local — sends the note events directly to an adjacent toneboard.
• Off — no MIDI notes are emitted. Default.
• All Channels — sends MIDI notes out on all channels.
• Channel 1-16 — lets you choose an individual channel or combination of channels.

Bass

What the left hand is doing underneath the chord.

• Shape — Off, Root, Root + 5th or Root + Octave. Tapping the panel's Bass button cycles these; the menu lets you jump straight to one.
• Rhythm — how the bass note repeats: Hold to sustain under the chord, or Whole, Half, Quarter or Eighth notes.

Feel

Humanization — the small imperfections that keep a part from sounding typed in.

• Timing — Pull to sit behind the beat, On for dead centre (default), Push to lean ahead of it.
• Looseness — how much the timing wanders: Tight (default), Loose, or Sloppy.
• Dynamics — how much the velocity varies: Even (default), Lively, or Wild.

Feel can be switched on and off from the panel's own Feel button without opening the menu.

Arp

The shape and speed of the arpeggio — the same menu the Arp button offers on a long press.

Strum

Strum patterns, your own custom patterns, and the stagger of the rake — the same menu the Strum button offers on a long press.

Quantize

How the Chordboard handles a pad you tap slightly off the beat.

• Quantize To — where a late tap lands: the next Beat, or the next Measure.
• Leniency — the grace window for a tap that arrives just early. Strict defers every late tap, while Tight, Standard and Loose allow progressively more slop before the chord is held back to the next beat.

Quantizing itself is switched on and off from the beat sync control on the panel, so it isn't repeated here.

Remove

Removes the chordboard from the current. It's shown in red because it changes your workspace but nothing is lost. You can switch the panel back on from Panels in the AuxDock menu and it returns with all these settings intact.

If the chordboard sounds stiff, the fix is usually in Feel rather than in the pattern. Timing on Pull with Looseness on Loose is the difference between a part that sits in the song and one that sits on top of it.