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1. and allows scale definitions to be received via the network using the OSC protocol Once received this information will be spread to all other harmonization devices in the liveset HarmoScaleSend J74 amxd The Max for Live MIDI device used to send defined scale information from inside Ableton Live to other systems in the network using OSC The actual scale definition still requires the HarmoScale J74 amxd device HarmoScale J74 standalone A standalone version of the HarmoScale J74 amxd AND HarmoScaleSend J74 amxd devices combined together The device runs as a desktop application versions for Mac and for Windows available This application performs the scale definition and uses OSC to send this information to other systems in the network HarmoFilterScale J74 standalone A standalone device for receiving scale information via OSC and applying filtering harmonization on a local MIDI feed coming as MIDI input The harmonized filtered input will be passed as MIDI output Note the scale information can be sent FROM a computer running Ableton Live using the HarmoScale J74 amxd device with the add on of using the HarmoScaleSend J74 amxd device for sending this information out to the network using OSC or alternatively FROM a computer running the HarmoScale J74 standalone application doing both action in one device On the other side scale information for filtering can be received BY a computer running Ableton Live using the HarmoScale2. input VST host in output eventually with internal routing MIDI Yoke or IAC bus Parameters the standalone device has the following controls e Sending Bypass toggle If active Sending passes detected chords to OSC output e Automatic Manual toggle Automatic passes detected chords immediately Manual requires you to hit the Send button e Send button If the mode is Manual allows you to send the chord information e Target IP boxes Four decimal numbers defining the target IP address e UDP port box Number as destination UDP port of the communication with the Target IP HarmoTools Page 10 2 The target system the System 2 computer runs Ableton Live and has a MIDI track dedicated for receiving the network information via OSC by using the HarmoChordRecv J74 amxd device as in the picture below Post Mixer f Post Mixer Post Mixer vji Post Mixer F Delay L ooo 4 iisi _ 0 00 4fims i 0 00 ims 0 00 d ims i 0 00 4 ms i 0 00 lt ms Parameters The HarmoChordRecv J74 amxd device has a control box for defining the UDP port for the OSC communication and a simple Bypass Receiving toggle If this is set to Bypass chord detection information is ignored if the toggle is set to Receiving chord information is used and spread to the entire liveset for other harmonization devices to use 3 As in the previous case in the third and and fifth tracks there are issues of the HarmoChordFilte
3. minor 7 chord C D G A When aC minor 7 chord is played no correction will be made Now change the chord and play a A minor 7 defined as A C F G In this case the A note still fits while the others not and will be corrected on the fly e The result of note by note harmonization will produce the new sequence CH A CH F CH You can see this as it has been done in the next picture On top the original sequence in the middle the chords being played and on the bottom the harmonized sequence as feeded to the instrument CIRCE REAL Note the HarmoTonicFilter J74 amxd is an alternative to the HarmoChordFilter J74 amxd forcing all incoming notes to be tranposed to the current chord root instead of the closest note to the chord This may give better results specially where basslines are involved HarmotTools Page 6 Additional Devices in the Pack e g Network Collaboration with Chords What about collaboration The next devices elaborate this part of the story HarmoChordRecv J74 amxd A Max for Live MIDI device for chord based harmonic collaboration somehow alternative to the HarmoChord J74 amxd is the HarmoChordRecv J74 amxd device This is used when chord detection has to be done outside of Ableton Live and allows chord detection to be received via the network using the OSC protocol Once received this information will be sp
4. pad slot hosts and triggers a chord One simple way of using it is in fact as a self contained rack of chords MIDI device you can program chords manually on each pad individually and use them by triggering the related pad Well although perfectly possible this is not the main use of the device The real target of this tool is in exploring chords within scales using the diatonic harmonization rules You can do this by using the HarmoScale2Chord J74 amxd and HarmoScale J74 amxd devices together they must be both somewhere in the same live set not necessary in the same track the HarmoScale J74 amxd device as it was exaplained before in the case of filtering is used to select a scale Once a scale has been selected it causes the HarmoScale2Chord J74 amxd device to auto pouplate its first seven pad slots with chords HarmoTools Page 14 The picture below shows the device and the chords auto populated using in this example the major scale HarmoScale J74 HarmoScale2Chords J74 O68 Or Vee kad abd WAA inor F Major D Minor lt empty gt a N G Major These chords are automatically built for you using the diatonic harmonization rules on top of the selected scale If the source scale is a major scale the rule will give Three major triads based respectively on the first fourth and fifth scale degrees the tonic subdominant and dominant These three tri
5. HarmoGuessScale amxd device This device analizes a MIDI feed and once enough notes have been collected it produces a scale guess This guess is spread to all the HarmoScaleFilter J74 amxd devices for the actual filtering harmonization The GUI items and parameters available are e MIDI input display showing the collected notes since start or since the collection has been cleared due to pressing the Reset_Guess button e Last Scale Guess the last scale that has being guessed and spread to all HarmoScaleFilter J74 amxd devices At least 6 notes needs to be collected for a guess to be possible Notes will be collected from the input MIDI which is also passed through The little number shows the number of collected notes e Alternative Guess In harmony many modes result in the same note combination For instance a C major scale a D locrian or a A minor scale all produce the same notes They only diversify in the order in particular on which is the first note in the scale in a C major scale the order is CDEFGAB in a D locrian DEFGABC in a A minor ABCDEFG This menu collects all the equivalent in terms of note set scales as alternative guesses This way your guess can be conceptually more precise while producing exactly the same results on the filter applied to the Scale device e Restart_Guess This button resets all the data being collected so you can guess again from scratch e Active Inactive This toggle activates d
6. HarmoTools Page 1 HarmotTools A tool set for MIDI harmonization in Ableton Live J74_Chords display 174 Scale_display CERTI F Minor Manually Modify Notes Build Scale Hi Reset to input notes WMH OPO mre crunchy Piano alas WA a WN wu ag UAU UNA e ar R OO O16 Q OAOE RIWI z2 4 ETTE O EITE Bulea Ab Major Introduction For the ones like me who embraced electronic music and mix with it chord progressions solo s and most of all improvisations the circle is not yet round Yes the latest generation of software Ableton Live in primis think about Live s session view for instance has given us a great deal of freedom for improvisation at least compared to what we were use to deal with But when it comes to harmonic improvisation with other musicians or on solo we are still on our own it is difficult if not impossible to keep up with the spontaneity of ideas if all our sequences fall out of tune and need reprogramming in order to fit with a new chord or a scale change Sometimes you would just like to have a more direct approach to harmonic changes to be able to fit harmonic changes while keeping the groove going on The HarmoTools concept So had this idea in mind for some time hanging create a real time MIDI harmonizer you could add when needed on the fly to adapt multiple tracks or even an entire Liveset so
7. Rcvd J74 amxd device combined with filtering harmonization done by the pair HarmoScaleFilterAPI J74 amxd Scale or BY a computer running the HarmoFilterScale J74 standalone HarmoScale2Chord J74 amxd This Max for Live MIDI device allows you to create a rack of chords based on the basic diatonic harmonization rules as associated to a given scale It provides 9 chord slots which can be individually edited and triggered by MIDI or by a controller mapping This tool is useful to study the possibilities within a given scale and to experiment with chord progressions When used in conjuction with a given scale use a HarmoScale J74 amxd or HarmoScaleRecv J74 amxd to select the scale and the rack will autopopulate chords triads by harmonizing on this scale You can then update the chords indivdually eventually adding or removing individual notes triads may this become more complex chords at choice HarmoDisplayGuitar J74 amxd A stripped down version of the HarmoChordGuitar J74 amxd device with the same guitar layout display but no chord recognition This device is meant as a simple display of MIDI notes on a guitar layout Anyway if you put a HarmoScale J74 amxd in front of it and enable on it the Note Out toggle you will be able to visualize the scale on the guitar layout As you can imagine this is a useful tool for learning or improving scale fingering on a guitar or a bass guitar instrument HarmoTools Page 13 Using the
8. ads are a bit special together they include every note in the scale Three additional minor chords again with a special characteristic each one is the relative minor of the three major chords given by the previous point These are based upon the sixth second and third degrees of the major scale and stand in the same relationship to one another as do the three majors so that they may be viewed as the first fourth and fifth degrees of the relative minor key minor scale three semitones down with exactly the same notes of the major scale in question The seventh chord is somehow a bit more odd one as it is a diminished chord Similar strategies to the above work equally well in all minor scales With more complex exothic scales the results produced are less obvious the chords produced are anyway harmonized to the selected scale Note The chords auto produced are always triads Anyway by adding little tweaks editing the pads slots you can create more colored variation This is easy each pad slot can be edited individually using the small one octave keyboard in the pad slot just click to activate disable any note for the chord A final consideration on triggering the chords You can experiment using the chords for chord progressions There are two ways to do this Triggering the slots pads manually i e using MIDI mappings for each pad slot to a controller pad Creating MIDI clips to trigger each slot The logic for
9. ce defines and spreads this information it does not do the actual harmonization MIDI filtering To harmonize a track to a scale you also need to run an instance of the HarmoScaleFilter J74 amxd device on the target track see next HarmoScaleFilter J74 amxd This Max for Live MIDI device applies the MIDI filter harmonization in real time to input MIDI based on the scale information as detected by the HarmoScale J74 amxd or HarmoGuessScale J74 amxd devices in any track of the Live set This Filter version is newer and compared to the original HarmoScaleFilterAP J74 amxd and works without additional devices in the MIDI chain so no Live Scale device is required like in the HarmoScaleFilterAPI J74 amxd original case HarmoScaleFilterAPI J74 amxd Legacy This is the older scale based filter of the HarmoTools suite This device applies the actual MIDI harmonization based on the available scale information by modulating a companion Scale MIDI device The Scale device must be placed within the same track it does not matter where exactly if just within the same track The filter adapts the Scale device in real time to match the defined scale HarmoTools Page 12 Additional Devices in the Pack e g Network Collaboration with Scales HarmoScaleRecv J74 amxd A Max for Live MIDI device for scale based harmonic collaboration This is used when scale definition has to be done outside of Ableton Live
10. dalone In case you need the other way around MIDI harmonization outside of Live the standalone HarmoFilterChord J74 device for receiving chord information via OSC and for applying harmonization on a local MIDI feed coming as MIDI input The harmonized filtered input will be passed as MIDI output HarmoTools Page 7 Real Time Chord Harmonization setting up the devices Let s have a look on how to set up the devices and use their controls in a practical setup for chord harmonization within a single Live set The next example will show a network collaboration example How to set up harmonization within a Liveset 1 We start from having a track the first used for the chord sequence In this case we will use a MIDI clip to generate the chords but real time input would do as well The chord sequence will be analized by the HarmoChord J74 amxd device placed on this same track As chords are identified information is spread to any other HarmoTool devices in the liveset as placed in tracks three and five drar 120 00 ii iin 4 1 4 Joe gt 3DSpearGiasses Project gt 5 474 GrooveBox64 Library v 5 474 HarmoToots gt C Legacy Original MIDI Filtered MIDI Post Mixer f Post Mixer E Monitor MIDI To gt 5 374 MtribeControl Library gt 0 374 PatDrummer Library e m ck Dela 0 00 SSS ees a Coco Emi Coco ams 0 00 dim
11. e ooo msl 0 00 ima 0 00 im MIDI Input TCG D Minor 7th 4 cece D Minor 7th f 4 p lil Parameters the parameters available on the device are a Manual Automatic toggle and a Send button When the toggle is set to Automatic detected chords information is sent straight away If the toggle is set to Manual chords will only be sent when pressing the Send button That s all there is Note the HarmoChord J74 amxd device passes its MIDI input through as output transparently So if you like to you can have an instrument for playing the actual chords HarmotTools Page 8 2 In the third and and fifth tracks of this example there are issues of the HarmoChordFilter doing the filtering harmonization and finally driving the actual instruments The original MIDI sequence is defined by the MIDI clip in the second track routed to both tracks three and five respectively using Live MIDI I O routing This feed is filtered harmonized in real time according to the chords detected and the harmonized output routed to the instruments again MIDI I O routing eeeee0 eeeeese dR 0c if 0 00 000 fm 0 00 O HarmoChoraFne J OOG H HarmotTools Page 9 How to set up harmonization in network collaboration The following reports a different setup using the HarmoChord J74 standalone application to analize chords and the HarmoTools in Ableton Live to receive the chord information to modulate harmonize t
12. eactivates information spreading across the Liveset If set to Active default the guess are spread to the HarmoScaleFilter J74 amxd devices If set to Inactive guesses are shown but not spread The GUI allows you also additional manipulation once the Pop UP window is opened e You can modify the Scale using the small keyboard on the display This is useful if you like to see which changes you can make to get harmonic alternatives e You can add or delete notes to the recorded input This is useful if not enough notes have been collected and no guess has yet been made Adding some extra notes on the small keyboard on the display you can get a guess e You can always go back to the recorded input by pressing the Reset to input notes button e You can use this as a visual display has it can be set floating while you change track or view in Live Using the HarmoScale2Chord J74 amxd device Many harmonization techniques are possible to create chords within a scale Probably the best known is the so called diatonic harmonization technique On the most common scales major and the various minors this technique generates chords with very strong harmonic characteristics they fit perfectly together and allow you progressions with a great sense of completeness A tool developed around this technique is the HarmoScale2Chord J74 amxd device It is a MIDI device and it looks like a rack of chords with 9 pads slots Each
13. hain so no Live Scale device is required as in the HarmoChordFilterAPI J74 amxd original case as presented next Example of harmonization within a Live set combining the two devices just introduced you can do harmonization within your liveset Suppose you are jamming have a keyboard for playing chords and have prepared a number of tracks with MIDI sequences and basslines which you can throw in and out while jamming Traditionally you would need careful planning of these basslines and sequences to mach the chords harmony done somehow in advance Using the HarmoTools you can improvise with chords baselines and sequences on the fly Set a HarmoChord J74 amxd device on the track which gets the chords you are playing eventually using these chords also for playing an instrument and set a HarmoChordFilter J74 amxd device on each track you need to harmonize These tracks will stay in harmony with the chords and change harmonically each time a new chord is played HarmoChordFilterAPI J74 amxd This is the older version of the previous filter device This device works by actually modulating a companion Scale MIDI device an Ableton Live standard MIDI device The Scale device must be placed within the same track it does not matter where exactly if just within the same track The filter is the Scale device adapted in real time to match the detected chord using Max for Live API to Live Since the latest versions of Ha
14. moGuessScale J74 amxd This Max for Live MIDI device is somehow similar to the HarmoChord J74 amxd device as described in the chord harmonization case This device analizes a MIDI feed i e a musician playing a keyboard by collecting notes and performing some analisys on the notes collected When a match is found to a given scale at least 6 notes must fit the match the device will produce a scale guess root and mode This guess is then spread to all HarmoTools devices in the liveset which react on scales and is also offered in the menu of all the produced guesses some scales produce an equivalent set of notes but distinguish themselves by the starting note the so colled modes e g Major Dorian Phrigian Lydian Myxolidian Natural Minor and Locrian While this device detects and spreads this information it does not do the actual harmonization MIDI filtering To harmonize a track to a scale you also need to run an instance of the HarmoScaleFilter J74 amxd device on the target track see next HarmoScale J74 amxd This Max for Live device has a similar effect of the following device but instead of dynamically detecting the scale it just allows you to statically select one supposed you know defined the scale to work on already Therefore it just defines the scale root and mode to be used and spreads this information to all HarmoTools devices in the liveset which react on scales Like for the previous device while this devi
15. on the HarmoScale J74 amxd device the scale you defined at the previous stage You will see the HarmoScale2Chord J74 amxd to auto pouplate its first seven pad slots with chords This chords fit harmonically with your scale You can now try out using the pads on the 3x3 chord rack or midi clips as specified before different chord progressions which should all fit your initial idea Try also to add another note from the scale selected to some of the chords This would enhance your chords to 7th or if add modify more notes result in more complex alterations and give your progression even more emphasis That s all for this user manual Have fun with these devices And by the way for more software and original stuff check my website http www fabriziopoce com download html
16. put e g Clips is adapted on the fly to match the root of the currectly detected chord HarmoChordBass J74 amxd This is a little sequencing device which receives the chord information detected from the HarmoChord J74 amxd and plays a simple sequence line of bass based on the detected chord root You can define triggers and pitch offset from the detected root for each step in sixteens Anyway note duration or velocity cannot be edited in the current version HarmoChordGuitar J74 amxd A version of the HarmoChord amxd device with a guitar layout display This device is meant as an aid for chord shape finding on a guitar Using this device chords in input MIDI as MIDI notes are presented on the guitar showing all possible positions on the frets including open chords and barre chords E and A shape It can be useful to beginners for learning the chord shapes on the guitar or for more advance players to visualize possible alternatives 074 display ll Free Run FO VO BIO mur crunchy Piano alas E a U UM PUM A r Ab Major HarmotTools Page 5 How harmonization works inside HarmoTools The harmonization as done by the HarmoChordFilter J74 amxd happens in a rather natural way It is not done by transposing the entire input sequence at once but on a note by note basis Imagine you have a sequence line like this C A C G D This naturally fits a C
17. r J74 amxd doing the filtering harmonization and driving the instruments The MIDI feeded to these instruments is defined as in the previous example by a MIDI clip of the second track routed through tracks three and five respectively This feed gets filtered harmonized according to the chords detected and routed to the instruments on tracks four and six respectively HarmoTools Page 11 Real Time Scale Harmonization the devices and their uses Most of the times chords are built starting from a scale Depending on the type of chord you will have triads quads or in most complex cases chords of five or six notes but at least in case of the diatonic modes they all retain a relationship with their scale root of origin A chord progression is in almost all cases a sequence of chords all belonging to the same original scale root well there are exceptions and these sometimes excel and create just that extra of suspance in a piece When you improvise a solo on a piece you would normally do it using the same scale root These notes just fit with the chords in the progression Using the chord based filtering harmonization just explaiend is good for sequences and basslines but may be limiting for solo s To fill this gap a version of the filter harmonizers technically almost identical to the devices just explained for chords is available for scales The following briefly describes these devices and their usage Har
18. racks in the same Live set 1 In this setup chords are played by a musician using a separate instrument and are feeded in input via MIDI to the standalone HarmChord J74 running on a computer with neither Ableton Live or Max for Live required as desktop application This computer System 1 has network connectivity i e through wireless to another computer System 2 set to follow these chords for harmonization Last Chord Sent MIDI Input ee Remote IP host Ab Major_9 S m Ab majoro ee 3 Computer 8 Harmo Scale Extern Desktop fj Libraries The standalone application receives the chords as MIDI input in this example using internal MIDI routing MIDI Yoke in Windows on Mac OS it could be the IAC bus does the chord detection and sends this information via the network with as destination System 2 in the picture IP 192 168 1 22 UDP port 4470 Note Many variations are possible The described setup considers a standalone keyborad piano an hardware instrument having its MIDI output patched to a System 1 computer through a MIDI input interface using this as MIDI input to the standalone HarmChord J74 device in this case the standalone application will not use its MIDI output A perfectly legitimate alternative could be the one of having a USB keyboard attached to System 1 a VST host running on it with a plugin for the chords playing and the standalone HarmChord J74 application running in between Keyboard as MIDI
19. read to all other harmonization devices in the liveset exactly as done by the HarmoChord J74 amxd device Note In this case the chord detection information will be sent FROM another system in the network This system is supposed to run the actual chord detection using one of the HarmoTools devices For instance the chords information could be sent FROM a computer running Ableton Live and using the HarmoChord J74 amxd device introduced before with the add on of using the HarmoChordSend J74 amxd device see next for sending this information out to the network using OSC Alternatively the chords information could be sent FROM a computer running the HarmoChord J74 standalone application see further on HarmoChordSend J74 amxd The Max for Live MIDI device used to send detected chord information from inside Ableton Live to other systems in the network using OSC The actual chord detection still requires the HarmoChord J74 amxd device to analize the chords The HarmoChordSend J74 amxd spreads this information across the network Example of network collaboration Case of all systems using Ableton Live and Max for Live Imagine to have two systems in real time collaboration both using Ableton Live System 1 could be doing the detection using the HarmoChord J74 amxd device and eventually also doing local chord based harmonization filtering as explained in the previous example Anyway it would also have an instance of the HarmoChordSend J74 amxd de
20. rmoTools you can use the HarmoChordFilter J74 amxd instead of the pair HarmoChordFilterAPI J74 amxd Scale HarmotTools Page 4 HarmoDisplay J74 amxd A very simple utility offering a floating window to display the MIDI activity in the track including history of all played notes since last cleared and if history is not disabled Useful if you want to monitor and study different parallel tracks using the history option or to see the effects of harmonization before after a filter The GUI controls of the HarmoDisplay J74 amxd include e PopUp and Float toggles open the separate display window and make it floating always on top e The History toggle Clear and Send buttons the History allows you to collect all notes played The Clear clears the collected buffer while the Send allows you to send the collected buffer to any HarmoGuessScale J74 amxd device even if inserted later This is useful to visually analize the content e g study the scale relationships e A Display button to toggle ON OFF the device HarmoTonicFilter J74 amxd This little device filter receives the chord information detected from the HarmoChord J74 amxd device in the pack and filters any incoming MIDI transposing anything to the chord root note If input notes are octaves apart the output chord roots will be also octave apart You can also define the octave offset This is a useful device for simple basslines as MIDI in
21. that everything could follow chords or scale changes After some time found a way for making this happen using Max for Live within Ableton Live The result is the set of devices called HarmoTools described here building blocks for MIDI real time harmonization and collaboration The rest of this document explains what the toolset does how it works and how you can set it up Cheers Fabrizio aka June74 For more software and original stuff http www fabriziopoce com download html HarmotTools Page 2 Table of Contents Introductions eea ee E e a a devote senoae bane a oe aa a aa a e a aaae are 1 Real Time Chord Harmonization the devices and their US S cccccsssceeeesseeeeeesseeeeeeeeeeees 3 Real Time Chord Harmonization setting up the devices s sseseseseseessesssesressesssresssresseesse 6 Real Time Scale Harmonization the devices and their USES cccccccccsesssceeeeeeeeeeeesstsssseeees 11 Real Time Scale Harmonization setting up the devices ccceecceeseesseeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeenneees 13 HarmotTools Page 3 Real Time Chord Harmonization the devices and their uses Combining the HarmoTools devices together you can do the following e Real time harmonization of any MIDI track within Ableton Live based on a source of chords e Real time harmonization of any MIDI track within Ableton Live based on a source scale e Real time collaboration using the network with sim
22. triggering is simple Note C 2 MIDI note 0 triggers slot 1 Note C 2 MIDI note 1 triggers slot 2 Note D 2 MIDI note 2 triggers slot 3 etc The trigger note can be changed on each pad see pad left top corner Note these triggering note are filtered out from the output of the device they are just used as triggers HarmoTools Page 15 Applications What scale are you in 1 Drop a HarmoGuessScale amxd on the MIDI track and let it analize the feed just play back the MIDI to it until it produces a guess If your idea used at least 6 different notes of the 12 you should get a set of alternative scales as a guess Which one is right Or better which is the Root note in your case Look again at your sequence of notes Normally the Root note would be the tonic note of the first chord or the note you melody evolves around It should not be hard to find Once you defined the Root the scale you are in should probably be the one scalein the menu populated by the HarmoGuessScale amxd device during it s analysis with exactly that same Root Note down this scale for the other operations you can now remove the HarmoGuessScale amxd device if you like Can you add and or expand your chord progression and which chords would fit 1 Drop now the HarmoScale2Chord J74 amxd device on the track you like to use for chords and on the same track a HarmoScale J74 amxd device Select
23. ultaneous harmonization of multiple systems not necessarily all based on Ableton Live but possibly to harmonically jam together We will start looking at chord harmonization first providing examples and detailed explanation Main Devices HarmoChord J74 amxd A Max for Live MIDI device for chord detection and for signaling to other devices within the Live set You can use this device where chords are generated running within Ableton Live by clips or MIDI input The device must receive the input directly independently from the fact that an instrument is played or not by these chords The device is able to detect 40 type of chords in each of the 12 possible root keys independently from the chord inversion Note While this device detects chords and spreads this information around in the liveset it does not do the actual harmonization MIDI filtering transpose To harmonize a track you also need to run an instance of the HarmoChordFilter J74 amxd device on the target track or tracks see next HarmoChordFilter J74 amxd This Max for Live MIDI device applies the MIDI filtering harmonization in real time to its MIDI input based on the chord information detected by the HarmoChord J74 amxd device Somewhere else in the liveset Note This Filter device is the newest in the series of Chord Filter devices in HarmoTools and compared to the original HarmoChordFilterAPI J74 amxd works without additional devices in the MIDI c
24. vice in the set to send the detected chord information to the network towards another system System 2 System 2 would receive the detected chord information as detected by System 1 using the HarmoChordRecv J74 amxd device and do the same chord based harmonization filtering on its local live set again combining the HarmoChordFilterAPI J74 amxd Scale devices The two systems will harmonize based on the same chords HarmoChord J74 standalone A standalone version of the HarmoChord J74 amxd AND HarmoChordSend J74 amxd devices combined together The device runs as a desktop application versions for Mac and for Windows available and uses MIDI input to receive the chords for detection eventually sending the received input transparently to another device as output for playing this with the chords in question This application performs the chord detection and uses OSC to send this information to other systems in the network Example of network collaboration Suppose a musician plays an electric piano defining this way the chords even if by partials chords due to the quick playing and suppose having them available via MIDI to a computer running the standalone HarmoChord J74 application This will do the chord detection and send the information to the network using OSC A second musician could use Ableton Live receive the chord information through the HarmoChordRecv J74 amxd and do the harmonization filtering HarmoFilterChord J74 stan
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