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New Hardware from Tame Impala's hardware company: Orchid, for generating chords
Yet another portable piece of hardware. No price yet:
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It's like a chording keyboard used by court reporters, but for musicians. This should be easily replicable by someone in software. And it's something that is desperately needed.
Looks cool. Looking forward to seeing it on a second hand market (and possibly buying it)
Looks interesting for sure. Not much details but it looks maybe similar to how chords work on an accordion.
Making me have a wandering eye, with my KeyStep 37 eyeballing me 👀
Looks cool to be honest. And I'm a fan of Tame Impala. But I'll be fine with my Korg Nanokey Studio for the time being.
Someone please make a MIDI plugin like this.
The ability to create a multitude of chord progressions with the simple press of a button and key is pure genius!
I’ve got a bunch chord devices and plugins and none of them do this 🙏
If I get you right, you want to press a root note and then determine what chord shape to play with buttons. It doesn't need to be in a predetermined scale, right? Maybe add a strumming option, like in the short preview video.
Do you mind using Drambo as a midi FX? If you don't I can make a patch for you, just tell me which chordshapes you want. I think that's quick and easy to patch (no promises, though).
I think it's more like the chords on a keyboard I had as a child the Casio PT 30.
In this picture you see the chord buttons and chord types underneath on the left side:
And here's a cool picture of Leonard Cohen playing with it:)
I think you’re right!
The PT 30 seems to be similar.
Check this out:
Cool video, I guess the guy from Tame Impala can’t help oozing style.
Ok, so you have to press a button in the top row, which is major, minor, diminished or sustained (2 or 4?) and can add one or more extensions (6, minor 7, major 7 and 9). Nice concept. Could easily be built in Drambo, but I guess the haptic is a big part of the appeal, although you could of course map the buttons to a physical controller.
In the meantime I built something, that’s more in the style of the PT30 with a couple of extras. A bit clunky on the touchscreen, but works with a couple minor kinks. Here’s a little jam I did with it:
Love that retro Orchid demo/ad. And who could possibly not like Tame Impala? The singer sounds like John Lennon, for crying out loud.
Just nitpicking here but Tame Impala is actually just 1 dude. He records everything himself, but has a touring band (basically being Pond).
But he performs as Tame Impala™ (yes, Tame Impala is a registered trademark).
Yes but point is that he's not just the singer - he does everything! In that sense there's no division between the singer and the band on the studio albums. It's only when he goes on tour that he brings in other musicians. So, basically Tame Impala is not really a band, it's a person
Okay, funny update…
The Orchid is helping me understand chords better even though I don’t have an Orchid 😂
The idea of reducing chord vocabulary to Triads then augmenting those Triads with Extensions. Fingering a triad makes sense to me, so adding those basic extensions simplifies the myriad possibilities by adding and moving a finger of two!
Your chord selector is very nice. Is it on patch storage?
Thanks, not yet, it's still a bit raw. I'm working something out right now, that works a bit more like the midipart of orchid. At least one of those I'm gonna upload. If I won't upload this one I can pm it to you.
Thanks for the follow up. Do not hesitate to come back on this thread if you upload something. I'm definitively interested by that kind module (and if you want, you can send me the modules in PM). Have a nice day.
Folks…
https://forum.loopypro.com/discussion/64579/chordi-free-amazing-chord-app
How hard would it be to add the looper to that?
@Ailerom I did add a sequencer module in there, I suspect that's what you mean. So for it to work you have to tap the preview of the sequencer, then hit the record button, play some chords and hit record again. Sometimes not every chord gets recorded, although it gets triggered while playing, and I haven't figured out why yet.
@SamSamSam I uploaded my patch to patchstorage. See here:
https://patchstorage.com/pt30-chords/
@tyslothrop1 great job!
@Stuntman_mike Thanks:) I 'm still working on one, that's more like orchid, but the midi mapping hasn't worked out, yet.
Hello @tyslothrop1. Thanks a lot. That's great!!! The strum is super nice (Just one remark, when strums are going down, should the bass come at the beginning anyway?)
I don't know if it is of any help, but the strumming and chord features in Orchid remind me of similar features on my Keystep 37. It is a bit more difficult tho on the Keystep to change chord types on the fly. The strumming feature is very fun to use.
Thank you and good point, I think I'm gonna just add the bass notes after the strum in the signal flow, so they hit together with the first note, no matter, if that's the highest or lowest, should be easy.
You’re welcome, thank you 🤩 Exciting!!!
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