Chords
Pick a chord, play it, then pick another one and repeat.
Chords is MIDIpad's melodic instrument. Your left thumb picks a chord on the stick and your right thumb plays it, on the touchpad, the right stick or the four buttons.
Chords sends on the MIDIpad Chords port, MPE by default. See How it works for what each string sends and why.
At a glance
Point at a chord to arm it. Strum to play it.
Strum it, hold it, brighten it
Swipe along the strings to strum, or tap to pluck. Move a finger across them to hold the ringing chord and set its timbre.
Push the stick to its edge to strike a group of strings. Each direction strikes a different group, on every controller.
Hold it with the stick at the edge and roll the stick round to pluck the strings one by one.
Plays the armed chord all at once. Out of the box that's all six strings, the low half, the high half, and the bottom and top strings, and you can pick the strings for each button.
Hold for the dominant chords, or whichever set of chords you've picked for it.
Hold for the parallel chords, or whichever set of chords you've picked for it.
Hold for the suspensions and sevenths, or whatever you've set it to add.
Pulls the pressure and CC74 down on every ringing string, and lowers the velocity of the next strike. A full pull ends the notes.
Voices the next strum higher. A shallow pull opens the chord out and a deep pull sends the top up.
Shake the pad to put energy back into the ringing strings. Roll it on its side to send a CC, once Tilt is on.
Switch instrument
Chords or Drums.