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CHORDS PRO Black Friday pricing takes 60% off this chord-building MIDI effect from W. A. Production, bringing it to $23.96 until Nov 29, 2026.
CHORDS PRO is the complete edition of the plugin. An upgrade option for people who already own the original CHORDS exists separately.
CHORDS PRO is a MIDI effect that generates chord progressions for you. It started as a follow-up to the original CHORDS, built from the feature requests W. A. Production received by email.
The maker says it was first designed for EDM productions but works across other genres too.
Place it ahead of any MIDI-triggered plugin that makes sound and hit play in your DAW. It loops up to 8 chords, with control over chord shape, inversions, velocity and more.
Press "create" and it comes up with its own ideas, from a single 4-note chord to a full 8-chord riff.
The maker says the programming was updated for the new chord shapes so progressions still sound musical and natural.
There are two levels. Global controls change inversions, length, speed and root key for the whole playback, so you can reshape a riff on the fly.
Click a single segment to go granular: chord shape (including major/minor variations), individual inversions and velocity.
Each of the up to 8 segments holds one chord type and triggers between one and four notes. Playback syncs to your DAW's host BPM, and you can add or remove segments as you go.
Inversions run from -6 to +6 per segment. That moves the root note inside the chord and pushes the lowest notes up an octave or the highest down one.
The chord shapes in the centre of the interface are grouped as Tonic, Subdominant or Dominant. Ask for something like a Cmadd9 or an Am7b5 and the plugin works out the notes.
Drag and drop the MIDI straight from the plugin into your DAW. From there you can chop it up, transpose it and edit it however you like.
A preview mode plays chords inside the plugin. The factory presets are labelled in detail and work as starting motifs that can grow into whole tracks.
It is incompatible with Maschine 2 and Reason on both Windows and Mac, because neither offers MIDI routing. If you run Apple Silicon, review the maker's compatibility status for your system before buying.
Yes. The CHORDS PRO Black Friday deal takes 60% off, bringing the full version to $23.96 until Nov 29, 2026. It is the full plugin, not the upgrade, which is a separate option for people who already own the original CHORDS.
CHORDS PRO has 30 chord types, up from 18 in the original CHORDS. They run from simple triads to more complex shapes, grouped as Tonic, Subdominant or Dominant. The maker says the programming was updated so progressions still sound musical and natural.
Yes. Drag and drop the MIDI from the plugin straight into your DAW project. Once it's there you can chop it up, transpose it and edit it freely. A preview mode lets you hear the chords inside the plugin first.
It connects to any sequencer and runs on 64-bit Windows 8 and later and macOS 10.13 and later. AAX needs Pro Tools 11 or higher. Maschine 2 and Reason are incompatible because they lack MIDI routing.
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