ChordBoy

Play, bend and sequence chords on an 80s-style instrument. Three sound engines, a step sequencer, a song arranger and MIDI and WAV export. No account, no ads.

ChordBoy is a pocket chord instrument styled after 80s music hardware, made for sketching chord progressions before you open your DAW.

PLAY CHORDS, NOT NOTES Every key of a real piano octave plays a chord from your scale, so everything you touch sounds right. Prefer big buttons? Switch to chord pads. Turn on NOTE mode for melodies and bass lines.

BEND THEM WITH THE MOOD JOYSTICK Hold a chord and push the joystick: it slides smoothly into sevenths, ninths, suspended, altered and lush voicings, with three pages of chord colors from basic to jazzy. Latch a mood and write it straight into your pattern.

THREE SOUND ENGINES • Analog: warm subtractive patches with filter, envelope and sub • FM: glassy electric pianos, bells and basses • Tape: a late-60s style tape-replay keyboard with flutes, choirs, strings, brass and organs, complete with wow, flutter and hiss Save your own patches and shape them with chorus, drive, delay and plate, room or hall reverb.

PERFORM Strum, arpeggiate or groove your chords with rhythm styles, swing and a humanizing LOOSE control.

SEQUENCE AND ARRANGE Build four patterns on a drum-machine style step grid. Each one has its own melody in a piano roll that only shows the notes of your key, or a drum kit with a row for every drum. Arrange them into a song across eight lanes (chords and melody for each pattern): solo and mute parts, zoom in to the beat, snap blocks to the grid, merge blocks into one, and balance it all on the mixer. 20 steps of undo and redo.

EXPORT Send your progression to any DAW as a MIDI file, or render WAV stems of each part.

MADE FOR BEGINNERS, DEEP FOR PRODUCERS An interactive tutorial walks you around the panel one task at a time, and the user manual explains every button. Meanwhile ChordBoy, the little performer on the LCD, dances, strums and head-bangs along to whatever you play.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your projects stay on your device.