Driving myself nutty trying to find a chord progression app I know I have

Krupa

It's a fairly simple one that I think you enter your progression as is (or maybe not, maybe it just lists them), then it maps it alongside a database of known songs and gives you a few choices as to what might work. I think it's not one of the big fancy players, just a free or nearly free one, or maybe free for a day one, almost a spreadsheet / database simplicity to it... any ideas to stop me procrastinating by searching in ever deeper google-fu on here

Butterfrog

Chordbot?

des1303

IOS / App Store / You (top right) / Purchased / My Purchases
should list everything you’ve ever installed.

Krupa

@Butterfrog said:
Chordbot?

Cheers, not that one though…

@des1303 said:
IOS / App Store / You (top right) / Purchased / My Purchases
should list everything you’ve ever installed.

Yup, been trawling and searching that in between the googling, ta 🙏

Butterfrog

Chordpadpoly? Tonality? Circle of fifths? Scaler 2?

raabje

I have the app Autochords, and it is also a website:

https://autochords.com/

It doesn't give other songs as an example, but instead you can choose a style.

Butterfrog

Klimper or suggested 2?

ecou

ChordBud 2

RonnieOmelettes

the Hooktheory website is a great resource for exploring songs with similar progressions. Would love to know the app you're looking for too!

bluegroove

@RonnieOmelettes said:
the Hooktheory website is a great resource for exploring songs with similar progressions. Would love to know the app you're looking for too!

This is what came to my mind as well.

Krupa

Cheers folks, all of the above checked and discarded before I posted… not that they’re no good, just not the one that’s getting me searching

pedro

Progressions?

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cramdog

Flow Machines
ChordFlow

Krupa

Cheers again folks, none of the above though

raabje

@RonnieOmelettes said:
the Hooktheory website is a great resource for exploring songs with similar progressions. Would love to know the app you're looking for too!

I like that website too, and the two Hooktheory apps. The website has a collection of famous songs to dig in.

They have the Hookpad software, 150 dollar is too much for me but it is on subscribtion too, when I have some time I want to try it for a month for 5 dollar.

https://www.hooktheory.com/hookpad/buy

klownshed

NextChord?

u0421793

I’ve been looking through my apps too, also, as well, to see what chord progression helping apps I already have

At first I was using an LLM on my MacBook Pro to suggest chord progressions but it gave me chords which didn’t seem to be in the group or string or whatever it’s called that the song was in, and I put some of those in my QY700 and it seemed to go okay, quite nicely in fact (actually this is the deepest I’ve ever gone into the QY700 in 25 years!) but it’s not made for songs really – you have to decide a bit of the sequence is a verse, another bit is a chorus, and manually copy them to different places, and it never works properly because either the stuff gets overwritten with something incorrect, or it ends up repeated over and over in stupid places, so I’ve put the QY700 back up in the attic

I’ve been prodding about with Navichord (which had more stuff in than I first realised years ago), and I’ve also re-downloaded Beatonal (I bought the pro upgrade years ago but it wants to charge me again) (doesn’t matter, the chord stuff works without the pro upgrade)

However, over the weekend I used the midi chord trigger thing in Logic Pro X, initially stimulated by a pair of Roli Touchpad Ms but in the end only one was needed, and this gave me a far better result (although the chords are either full-on hard in the red or they’re inaudible but that’s probably okay because it’s dynamics and that’s a good thing

Krupa

@u0421793 said:
I’ve been looking through my apps too, also, as well, to see what chord progression helping apps I already have

At first I was using an LLM on my MacBook Pro to suggest chord progressions but it gave me chords which didn’t seem to be in the group or string or whatever it’s called that the song was in, and I put some of those in my QY700 and it seemed to go okay, quite nicely in fact (actually this is the deepest I’ve ever gone into the QY700 in 25 years!) but it’s not made for songs really – you have to decide a bit of the sequence is a verse, another bit is a chorus, and manually copy them to different places, and it never works properly because either the stuff gets overwritten with something incorrect, or it ends up repeated over and over in stupid places, so I’ve put the QY700 back up in the attic

I’ve been prodding about with Navichord (which had more stuff in than I first realised years ago), and I’ve also re-downloaded Beatonal (I bought the pro upgrade years ago but it wants to charge me again) (doesn’t matter, the chord stuff works without the pro upgrade)

However, over the weekend I used the midi chord trigger thing in Logic Pro X, initially stimulated by a pair of Roli Touchpad Ms but in the end only one was needed, and this gave me a far better result (although the chords are either full-on hard in the red or they’re inaudible but that’s probably okay because it’s dynamics and that’s a good thing

Sounds like a good exploration, I’ll likely just revert to instinct and ear anyway after either finding this one or giving up the hunt 😅

@klownshed said:
NextChord?

This one’s good, nice and simple, but a much nicer interface than the one I’m starting to think my brain invented…

HotStrange

@Krupa said:

@u0421793 said:
I’ve been looking through my apps too, also, as well, to see what chord progression helping apps I already have

At first I was using an LLM on my MacBook Pro to suggest chord progressions but it gave me chords which didn’t seem to be in the group or string or whatever it’s called that the song was in, and I put some of those in my QY700 and it seemed to go okay, quite nicely in fact (actually this is the deepest I’ve ever gone into the QY700 in 25 years!) but it’s not made for songs really – you have to decide a bit of the sequence is a verse, another bit is a chorus, and manually copy them to different places, and it never works properly because either the stuff gets overwritten with something incorrect, or it ends up repeated over and over in stupid places, so I’ve put the QY700 back up in the attic

I’ve been prodding about with Navichord (which had more stuff in than I first realised years ago), and I’ve also re-downloaded Beatonal (I bought the pro upgrade years ago but it wants to charge me again) (doesn’t matter, the chord stuff works without the pro upgrade)

However, over the weekend I used the midi chord trigger thing in Logic Pro X, initially stimulated by a pair of Roli Touchpad Ms but in the end only one was needed, and this gave me a far better result (although the chords are either full-on hard in the red or they’re inaudible but that’s probably okay because it’s dynamics and that’s a good thing

Sounds like a good exploration, I’ll likely just revert to instinct and ear anyway after either finding this one or giving up the hunt 😅

@klownshed said:
NextChord?

This one’s good, nice and simple, but a much nicer interface than the one I’m starting to think my brain invented…

Has your GAS gotten so bad you’re dreaming of buying apps now? 😂

Krupa

@HotStrange said:

@Krupa said:

@u0421793 said:
I’ve been looking through my apps too, also, as well, to see what chord progression helping apps I already have

At first I was using an LLM on my MacBook Pro to suggest chord progressions but it gave me chords which didn’t seem to be in the group or string or whatever it’s called that the song was in, and I put some of those in my QY700 and it seemed to go okay, quite nicely in fact (actually this is the deepest I’ve ever gone into the QY700 in 25 years!) but it’s not made for songs really – you have to decide a bit of the sequence is a verse, another bit is a chorus, and manually copy them to different places, and it never works properly because either the stuff gets overwritten with something incorrect, or it ends up repeated over and over in stupid places, so I’ve put the QY700 back up in the attic

I’ve been prodding about with Navichord (which had more stuff in than I first realised years ago), and I’ve also re-downloaded Beatonal (I bought the pro upgrade years ago but it wants to charge me again) (doesn’t matter, the chord stuff works without the pro upgrade)

However, over the weekend I used the midi chord trigger thing in Logic Pro X, initially stimulated by a pair of Roli Touchpad Ms but in the end only one was needed, and this gave me a far better result (although the chords are either full-on hard in the red or they’re inaudible but that’s probably okay because it’s dynamics and that’s a good thing

Sounds like a good exploration, I’ll likely just revert to instinct and ear anyway after either finding this one or giving up the hunt 😅

@klownshed said:
NextChord?

This one’s good, nice and simple, but a much nicer interface than the one I’m starting to think my brain invented…

Has your GAS gotten so bad you’re dreaming of buying apps now? 😂

The opposite, it was so bad that I can’t tell the difference between things I got and things that don’t exist 😅

klownshed

@Krupa said:

@klownshed said:
NextChord?

This one’s good, nice and simple, but a much nicer interface than the one I’m starting to think my brain invented…

Ok cool. So we still need to find one like nextchord, but much uglier?

Actually I’m quite impressed with nextchord. It’s free with an IAP to detect chords automatically via the mic.

I don’t often use chord finding apps but I do have chord sequencer in reason on the Mac and that’s really good. It suggests chords based on genre but also, as the name suggests, sequences the chords too.

Every time I mention Reason I feel compelled to say they really should have made Reason for the iPad. It has a built in business model that would have worked well (subscribe or purchase individual extensions with IAPs) and would generally be tons of fun on touch.

Anyway. I like both next chord and chord sequencer for finding the less common next chord. The ones I’d probably not find naturally whilst ham fistedly working out my chords on a keyboard.

Krupa

@klownshed said:

@Krupa said:

@klownshed said:
NextChord?

This one’s good, nice and simple, but a much nicer interface than the one I’m starting to think my brain invented…

Ok cool. So we still need to find one like nextchord, but much uglier?

Actually I’m quite impressed with nextchord. It’s free with an IAP to detect chords automatically via the mic.

I don’t often use chord finding apps but I do have chord sequencer in reason on the Mac and that’s really good. It suggests chords based on genre but also, as the name suggests, sequences the chords too.

Every time I mention Reason I feel compelled to say they really should have made Reason for the iPad. It has a built in business model that would have worked well (subscribe or purchase individual extensions with IAPs) and would generally be tons of fun on touch.

Anyway. I like both next chord and chord sequencer for finding the less common next chord. The ones I’d probably not find naturally whilst ham fistedly working out my chords on a keyboard.

Yeah, the one I’m thinking of isn’t much than a glorified database, maybe a bit of a decision tree built into it…

Krupa

I feel like this one is very much like it, but not it 😅

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/songwriters-inspiration/id1143340950

I’ve literally been scrolling the (rather shameful) purchased list on my phone and iPad to check out every likely candidate, and even the ones recommended on the store page, talk about avoidance 😂

raabje

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chordmaps2/id1098330720

This one has a decision tree. But no reference songs as far as I know.

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HotStrange

@Krupa said:

@HotStrange said:

@Krupa said:

@u0421793 said:
I’ve been looking through my apps too, also, as well, to see what chord progression helping apps I already have

At first I was using an LLM on my MacBook Pro to suggest chord progressions but it gave me chords which didn’t seem to be in the group or string or whatever it’s called that the song was in, and I put some of those in my QY700 and it seemed to go okay, quite nicely in fact (actually this is the deepest I’ve ever gone into the QY700 in 25 years!) but it’s not made for songs really – you have to decide a bit of the sequence is a verse, another bit is a chorus, and manually copy them to different places, and it never works properly because either the stuff gets overwritten with something incorrect, or it ends up repeated over and over in stupid places, so I’ve put the QY700 back up in the attic

I’ve been prodding about with Navichord (which had more stuff in than I first realised years ago), and I’ve also re-downloaded Beatonal (I bought the pro upgrade years ago but it wants to charge me again) (doesn’t matter, the chord stuff works without the pro upgrade)

However, over the weekend I used the midi chord trigger thing in Logic Pro X, initially stimulated by a pair of Roli Touchpad Ms but in the end only one was needed, and this gave me a far better result (although the chords are either full-on hard in the red or they’re inaudible but that’s probably okay because it’s dynamics and that’s a good thing

Sounds like a good exploration, I’ll likely just revert to instinct and ear anyway after either finding this one or giving up the hunt 😅

@klownshed said:
NextChord?

This one’s good, nice and simple, but a much nicer interface than the one I’m starting to think my brain invented…

Has your GAS gotten so bad you’re dreaming of buying apps now? 😂

The opposite, it was so bad that I can’t tell the difference between things I got and things that don’t exist 😅

I wish you luck 😂 I went through my iPad and didn’t find one that hasn’t already been mentioned unfortunately.

raabje

okay, one more: Pro Chords 2

https://prochords.dk/

I have it on my Ipad, from 10 years ago. I am not sure you can get it these days in the app store.

And the app is pretty clunky, there are better apps, this one is probably surpassed by Scaler 2 and Progressions.

Jumpercollins

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