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Palette Chord Player

Experiment with chord progressions and combinations with our easy-to-use chord player with circle-of-fifths inspired layout. The chord player has piano, guitar and synth sounds built-in and feaures an auto-arpeggiator, a strum mode, different chord palettes and chord voicings, reverb, delay, compression, metronome, and host of other effects including tremolo, chorus, phaser and wah. The chord player is free to use, ad-free and tracker-free.

How to Use Palette

Press any chord button and the chord sounds for as long as you hold it. The outer ring is the major chords, the inner ring their relative minors, and the chords beside any chord are the ones that fit it best.

Switch Jot on and the pad under the circle writes down what you play: each chord lasting until the next, a long silence a rest. Play it back with a click, loop it, tap a chord on the pad to change its length or drop it, save it as MIDI, and, signed in, keep it in your account by name with a note board under the device that saves as you type. Set the tempo, or tap it, in the Timing menu, and turn its click on to jot in time.

Quick Tips

  • Select the key you want to play in to find the right chords
  • Try out the default presets to get started quickly
  • Hold down the Shift key to play sevenths
  • Hold down the spacebar for sustain
  • Try applying delay, reverb or other effects in the Effects Menu
  • Tap the Arpeggio button to play arpeggiated chords
  • Double-click the Arpeggio button to latch the arpeggiator on
  • Tap the Strum button to strum chords
  • Set the bpm in the tempo / metronome menu
  • Notes mode turns the circle into twelve single notes
  • Tap the keyboard button to see which keys on the keyboard correspond to which chords in the player
Learn more about using Palette, the chord player, in the user docs. Palette docs