Chordgun inserts MIDI notes and chords in a chosen scale with an intuitive UI or with Keyboard shortcuts.
Install Pandabot’s Chordgun with the ReaPack extension. In the action list you will find all the Chordgun functions as separate scripts and the main Chordgun GUI script.
It’s a fantastic tool for quickly trying out different chords, inversions, and sketching out a song structure using them.
With the script window in focus keyboard 1-7 play the selected chord in each scale position. The typing keys play root notes of each chord in 3 octaves. Example – z = c in lower octave, a = c in scale octave, and q = c in higher octave
Press 0 (zero) to stop all notes.
The other functions (tonic, scale type, inversion, chord type) can be changed with the , and . keys (< and >) plus different combinations of modifiers (shift, control, command).
When a MIDI item is opened for editing notes and chords will be inserted at the cursor position following the grid size, and replace any other notes there already.
Forum thread: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=213180
Comments
5 responses to “Awesome MIDI Tool – CHORDGUN script for REAPER – Tutorial”
Hi Jon, looks like a really cool extension. I managed to install it using ReaPack, but the functions don’t show up in the actions list. Could it be that it doesn’t work with Reaper 4.78? That’s the version I’m still using as of today. I cannot find any hint like system requirements for ChordGun…
I can’t seem to get Chordgun to work with step entry mode. I can use step entry from a MIDI keyboard, and I can record MIDI input on the fly with Chordgun, but not with step entry. This is with Reaper 6.0.5, wondering if something changed…?
Same for me 🙁 Reaper 6.0.9
And two minutes later I notice the bold text here:
https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=213180
saying “hold the shift key to insert into MIDI editor”
changed after my video