Chord

Builds a chord on every note with a slight strum

Open in the synth with a demo patch Open Modular

What it does

Chord takes one note and emits several in its place: a fifth, a triad, a seventh chord and so on. Spread staggers those notes by a few milliseconds, like strumming the strings of a guitar. Patch it in front of a Voice and a single sequencer or random note becomes a bed of chords.

Try this

Send one note into Chord and try different intervals between its voices.

Ports

in: Root note of the chord
out: Chord notes

Parameters

Voicing · Spread

Try this

sus2 and add9 sound airier than triads and rarely clash with a wandering melody.
Spread 60–120 ms on a Voice with a soft attack turns the chord into an arpeggio.
Put Quantize before Chord, not after, so the chord intervals stay exact.

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