Nonetheless, you can instead take a shortcut by loading one of 68 pre- designed minor or 69 major progressions from the Chords menu, for use as is or as a starting point for customisation. The process of creating effective chord progressions in Captain Chords by adding, defining and resizing blocks really couldn’t be more intuitive or fun. The interface is freely resizable, and various piano roll folding options are available, so keeping everything in view as your chords start to vary in height is never a problem. Octave shifts the whole chord up and down the keyboard, and Flavor lets you add extra notes - the 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th and/or 13th. Inversion options comprise the ‘Default’ triad, and ‘First’ and ‘Second’, as well as the default ‘Minimize Leap’, which intelligently sets the optimal voice leading for the chord and all those following it. Complexity adds bass notes to the chord when raised from its default value of 4 (up to a maximum of 7), and thins it out at the top when lowered. With a chord selected, various individually editable parameters do become accessible, however. As powerful as these two systems are, they’d be much more so if they could be applied per-chord rather than only globally, as is currently the case. The first houses a huge list of preset rhythmic patterns, most of a decidedly dance music bent the second offers quarter- notes, and regular and dotted eighth-notes alongside the default legato option. Tension controls how closely Melody adheres to the notes of the key or chords, and thus how much dissonance is introduced and Pattern, which works in tandem with the Rhythm menu, reorders the notes with 106 arpeggiations and sequences. Shape determines the way in which Deep’s bassline relates to Chords’ progression (‘Follow the chords’, ‘Opposite movement’, etc). The parameters diverge with Deep’s Shape options, and Melody’s Tension and Pattern menus.
Captain Melody takes its onboard sounds from Chords’ library, while Deep features 60 exclusive bass sounds alongside Chords’ ‘Plucks’.
They also both draw on the same library of Rhythm patterns as Captain Chords. It’s like magic!īeing monophonic, as you’d expect, Deep and Melody lose the chord selection, voicing and inversion controls, but keep the Octave and, in Melody’s case, Note Length menus. But what’s really clever is that Deep and Melody are slaves to Chords, automatically updating their monophonic lines to follow the latter’s progressions as you tweak them in real time. Built on the foundations of Captain Chords, Captain Deep and Captain Melody use the same underlying processes to generate bass and lead/ melodic lines.
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