Hi everyone,
I recently released a new plugin, “CHORD GENERATOR”—a MIDI chord generator available in VST3/AU/Standalone formats (and coming soon for iPad) And it’s available for €29.
If you’d like to check it out and see what it can do:
MORE INFO:
CHORD GENERATOR – Mario Nieto World
Best Regards,
Mario
This video is insane. Good examples, good plugin and very good price. Congratulations.
thanks Baridial.
Mario, incredible work. I’ve been looking for something with this exact feature set for some time, it is really ticking all the boxes…
One piece of UI feedback: the randomization sliders could allow for narrower/finer ranges. I’d like to, for instance, set an extremely narrow range at the beginning of the Strum slider to give a light humanization but this isn’t possible with the current controls.
Thanks, I’ll take note of your request. 
Nice! Will check this out for sure! Looks a bit like the audiomodern plugins, very clean.
Fantastic plugin. Very inspirational and has already spawned a couple of new tracks.
great 
Hey! I think it’s a good idea to provide some context related to the similarity with Audiomodern plugins, so I’m going to paste a text I shared on another forum:
The original idea for Chordjam comes from a project I created years ago, available on my Gumroad in Max for Live format. There’s a free version and a paid one in M4L format. But I recommend go for the VST/AU/STANDALONE version. I still need to update my Gumroad.
On my Gumroad, you’ll also find other projects I developed and that were later converted into VSTs, such as Random Riff Generator Pro (Riffer), Random Filter Generator Pro (Filterstep), and Random Groove Generator Pro (Playbeat). You can even download a video game I created.
At first, I only knew how to develop with Max for Live, but over time I decided to learn C++ to create my own VST/AU plugins. However, when Riffer and Playbeat were published, I wasn’t part of the development process since I didn’t know C++ at that time.
That said, I worked on my own projects, and while some, like Chord Generator, never saw the light of day, others, like FGG (Filter Groove Generator), did. You can also find these on my Gumroad.
Later, I joined Audiomodern as an independent developer, collaborating on several projects. You’ll find my name in the credits of many of their apps.
Now, with Harmony Bloom, I’ve decided to take full control of my work. The project has been well received, but I think an ideal addition would be a chord generator. Building on my original concept of Random Chords Generator, He desarrollado un VST/AU plugin that generates chord variations every time it receives a note. I’m open to suggestions and will continue adding features as the project progresses.
My goal is to create a chord generator that’s easy, fast, and intuitive to use, and, like Harmony Bloom, fun to work with. I’ll be hosting live streams to showcase the progress of the project and how to use it.
This is really interesting - I had no idea! Actually, I was thinking the other day that it would be cool if someone had made Playbeat but as a Max device rather than a VST. And you have! But I note your point about the VST being better. With these new sequencing options within Live either via Max or the new generators within the MIDI tools, I can see where the chord and specifically the M4L version of Playbeat would fit in quite well. I’m guessing development of these devices stopped, and I note you’re saying discontinued on the product page, so perhaps not a recommended buy (am guessing no updates to these devices, compatibility with new versions of Live?) But yeah just a note to say if it were to be a thing again, I for one would be interested in that sort of thing!
Great tool! 2 questions tho: the software keeps asking my username and password for authentication after rebooting my pc. Sometimes it works fine for 2 days in a row but it’s quite annoying to search my mail folder and copy paste the key everytime i reload a project.
More of a future wish question, it would be great to have more parameters midi accessible. This vst and Bitwig modulators are just made for eachother.
It does seem that some updates erase the CG unlock registration. So, please, if you need me to increase the number of times you can use your license, just send me an email at mario@marionietoworld.com and include your serial, and I’ll update it for you.
About automation:
Adding automation to many of the parameters can be problematic since it’s important to consider that every change made to an automatable parameter is saved by the DAW in a list. For example, if controls like velocities have retrigger activated, each time the CG receives a note, a new state will be generated and saved by the DAW. So, imagine you’re working with some retrigger active—any other action you take in your DAW, like moving an audio or MIDI clip, adding a new track, etc., would quickly end up at the bottom of the DAW’s undo list, making it very difficult to undo a specific action… I hope I’m explaining this well! I do have some ideas to make automation of all parameters possible, but for now, to keep things simple, I’d rather not go into them.
Really looking forward to trying this out!
Your chord generator looks excellent, well done, but I have a quick question, is there a piano roll that visually shows the chord being played? As to see the inversions line up.
Also, if I select a scale will the chords that populate be using chords that are using inversions to link the chords in a smooth manner? What I mean is many chord modes in software simply go 1-3-5 and then every chord is the same leading to the voicing jumping around.
Many thanks.