When I am producing music, I find I do the same thing over and over. When I am writing out a harmony I need to either play it live or write out different chords to test them out in the track. I have also found having a library of MIDI chords useful for triggering certain chords during a performance. To save me the time I made a library of chords separated by their key that I can just drag and drop.
My desire to save time is what gave birth to the MIDI Chord Library. I have a folder for the different keys in their major or minor. When you download this Library, you can navigate to Chords/Major/C Major Key/ there you can see all the chords in that key and drag them in the session.
I also used the Circle of Fifths Sticker to have all the clips be colored in such a way it is easy to harmonically mix and see what is happening. If you are unfamiliar with this technique, then check out my article on the circle of fifths.
This free (aq) Chords pack includes a live set, a reworked image of the circle of fifths to synced with Ableton clip colors, as well as a live set that lays it all out. Enjoy the chords!
Here is a video using the Library of MIDI Chords:
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Glad to bring this pack forward that can save a lot of people a LOT of time! Drawing those chords out can just add up over time…
Not quire sure how to use this yet, but I am sure when I play with it I will dig it.
Thanks alot!This exactly what i was looking for
Nice one brother!
Hm, nice idea and working nicly for me…will se if it’s usefull in production…. love the idea anyway:)
Keep up the good work
precious. big help!
thanks.
This is a feature in FL, but I am glad to have it in my ableton session now. Thanks!
Glad you are all finding this useful! Love sharing these the tools I create for my own music. Share the link to your friends as well!
Great idea ! It is like a book but more interactive-;) you should extend this project with less traditional scale -;)
Thank you !
awesome!
Amazing mate, thanks so much!
I absolutely love this.
is there anything like this for logic pro? or anything like this in general?
They are a bunch of MIDI files in the ableton set. You could just use that for logic or any other DAW.
sorry guess you can still use this file in order to import the single chords so you can still build this in intro. Only you are limited in how many scenes.
WOW! Prob the most amazing resource for ableton. Thx.
well, massive thanks bruv
thanks mate really helpfull !!!
This is a great resource, and I am eternally grateful for your work, time and effort you have put into this and then providing it for free.
Thank you,
Thanx from The Netherlands!
I can’t even venture a guess, just how long, I’ve wanted a tool like this or similar. I’ve seen some one-shot chord hoards here and there that one could manipulate to some degree. However, it’s the relativity (if you will) of one chord to another you’ve made getting around, basically effortless. That’s,( for lack of a better word )…awesome. Last, w/ regard to workflow, I can honestly say. This, may very well be, the best tool in the box. Also, It’s a little ironic, that, you actually offered this free of charge. Because, for myself…it’s damn near priceless. You’re a genius THANK U
Having read this I thought it was extremely informative.
I appreciate you taking the time and effort to put this
informative article together. I once again find myself personally spending way too much time both reading
and posting comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!
Thank you very much. I am an average guitarist with no keyboard experience. I am trying to compose song in MIDI using Sonar X3. Manually creating MIDI chords takes too much time. Your library will help me so much. Now, just drag and drop. Wow! Dedicated music loving people like you are God sent to amateur musicians like me. Thanks again for sharing your hard work.
I don’t ever post comments but this is such an amazing resource that I had to say thank you. Thanks for being so generous and sharing it with the rest of us!
I thuohgt finding this would be so arduous but it’s a breeze!
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I had the thought and googled to see if anyone had done before and came across this. Thanks for your efforts – much appreciated!
Your welcome! Happy to help save you time and offer some creative tools.
excellent!!!!!
Thank you so much for all your work – Best, Shan :-)
Thank’s a lot for all of your free sharing and your knowledge,it’s help a lot :-)
Just had to say THANK U for this tool mate. Its a true gem! <3 Thank you !
Your welcome Jason. Glad to help and spread the knowledge!
From what I read it should work with any DAW right? Studio One, Logic? Thanks!
Yes, exactly. It’s MIDI so it should work with anything.
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Thank you, you can`t imagine how Great it was for my dissertation
That’s awesome to hear! Thanks
Amazing work….sharing your work is giving you good karma my friend ;)
This should be done for all chords for every scale. I’d pay for that.
Thanks Blessa! One day maybe ;)