To the developers of this app, I love this tool for working out chords. It'd be great if you would now allow us to map this to our physical midi controllers now. ;) Thanks for creating one of the best audio apps for the ipad!
The developer should be thanking you really. I would never have bought this app if there was no video supporting how to use it. There are some good chord apps that I hardly ever use simply because the developer can’t be bothered to make a UA-cam video on how to use it.
Spot-on! WTF is going on with people today - humans haven't changed that much in the last century, let alone the last few decades, but now there is this, "You figure it out." attitude. I blame the gaming culture, but not everyone likes gaming, the rest of us just want answers. These videos are fantastic - Doug is sending me to the poor house, or at least to the basement of it, because I already live there. ;-) Videos are good - this one I would say is essential, but what developers need to do is what the big guys did - an instruction manual and a reference manual. Heck, they could make it digital and even charge, so no pounds of paper involved...
A great thanks for this review ! I must confess that if i had seen this app just for a few minutes without any piece of information, i would not have kept it in mind. But watching your review made me understand how it can be useful to get new chord progression ideas ! So i bought it using your link, of course ;-) thanks for your work. It’s so usefull for all the ios music producers community.
I've had great fun sequencing chords after watching the Touchscaper demo.. so i google Ipad and chords.. and now.. i find myself here, where you've said "Incredible, Essential, Amazing, Most useful." It looks like i'm off to the appstore! Cheers Doug.
Andrew Fox Right and I’m here seconds after purchasing the Chord Polypad app another one he raved about and suggested & now This ChordMaps2 I’m really loving this what I needed Smh
Great video and demo of how to use an app like this where you literally have western music theory at your fingertips. It’d be very nice if there were similar apps for other scale approaches as well.
I had the Chordmap app and totally missed that they released a new version 2 app. The original is very similar but with a simpler layout. This is very interesting and a good thing for those that want to explore chord progressions and the like.
Awesome App. Isymphonic orchestra Strings + Harp and this is also stellar sounding plus many more of course :) Also works great with Trance Sounds like SynthMaster Player . Soo good. Thx for the Review . Well done :)
Useful app, but whey is the chord definition is in portrait mode while everything else is in landscape? A sure way to put your neck out if you use it for learning the chords… thank you for your review!
i thought i'd be nonplussed by this ( especially as it aint exactly aesthetically pleasing ) - but actually it looks very interesting indeed. i've also been mulling getting the ChordBot hardware chord thingie. When production delays ease up
I’ve just bought this and can’t get it to work. I’ve tried with Animoog, Magellan and Cubasis. I’ve set the Midi channels up and there’s nothing, no sound at all
Great review! Congratulations. Do you know if this app can play a chord through midi command sent to him? I want to play chords by stepping on my midi foot controller. If not, can you suggest any iOS app that can do it? Thanks a lot .
Valdis Krebs sadly thats the hard part of the ios music production. Ive spent countless hours making sounds and then nothing to show for it except a huge smile.
It's apps like this which make me want an iPad. There are similar things for Windows but this app in particular look phenomenal. Too bad these developers won't port their apps to Android.
Doug, is it possible to send the output from chordmaps2 as midi or audio to Cubasis ?? I also wanno know if this is possible for Chordion as I bought boths apps after looking to your nice and clear video's about them :) Superb !!
Thanks for very informative tutorials. Would like to know if from the Ipad, will it be able to control a workstation keyboard like the Kronos? Thanks and more power to you.
I’ve found that ChordMaps 2 doesn’t record properly with BM3 as it doesn’t register all the notes when you trigger. Has anyone else experienced that? Any work around to this? Please help!
What exactly did you do at time [12:08] in order to "get the right melody"? Or could you just play anything as long as you choose the chords within the progressions?
Read what Corey writes on the spp's usage in the manufacturer's homepage. You may need a MIDI bridge to get the MIDI data to where you want to get them.
I’ve had the same problem. I haven’t tried the MIDI bridge yet but the apps I’ve been trying to use have been ticked in the MIDI destination slot. But no sound, as yet
It, on it own doesn’t do anything, if you can do jazz, you will be able to play a jazz progression, this is an app for exploring chord progressions and note leading, check their site, there is a very useful and in depth section on all the theory stuff
Great app and a great video. I'd urge everyone to look at the bit about the simple map on the dev's help page (link below), which not only explains the layout of the chords on the fundamental screen but tells you more about chord progressions in a single graphic than you'll get from a shedload of theory videos. Doug likes to start at the root and play against the direction of the arrows, but the grid is actually designed to resolve inwards and downwards rather than upwards and outwards. (As Doug says, you don't need to understand or care about this to use the app - but it's incredibly useful if you're interested in its original purpose as a learning tool.)mugglinworks.com/ChordMaps2/understanding-the-maps.html
Apart from the fact that it’s kind of frustrating for those of us who spent years and thousand of hours learning and integrating tonal harmony to know that the most uneducated musical dolts will now be able to use the system like masters, we can at least look forward to popular songs that break free of the current pentatonic quasi-modal limbo where most pop music has been stuck for the last couple of decades ;) That said, thank you for this. I will definitely look into it, it might actually save me hours of work....
As a musical dolt myself I do feel that apps like this make us all sound the same. The oyster needs a bit of grit to make the pearl. Surely it's how we break the rules that makes what we do interesting?
Lot's of comments about musical dolts...just saw Joe Perry Project at the house of blues...pure "street" guitarist who took playing from the gut as far as he could, and did OK for himself. We all learned to speak without English Grammar. Music as language is also intuitive. Theory is a big plus. Nice app.
@@MoonLanta Good to know. I guess Quincy implied an How-do-I-do-that-then in his question. Doug, maybe you can shed some light on this, several people asked the same. Another video on it, maybe?
I was referring to just the bs 16. I want to use it just like you are in the video, with the bs16 as the 8 channel sound generator for the chordmap2. Does the bs16 come with built in samples? I ask because the size of the bs16 app is only 50mb. Love your channel and thanks for any answers.
Oh, sorry Ritchie, I get it now...yes it does, in fact everything in the demo is from the sound set that comes with bs-16i, but even better is the bs-16i is actually a Sample Font Player, and there are literally thousands of brilliant and free sample font libraries on the net and even more than that bs-16i is also now an AUv3
Been playing with this. Really great app. For anyone goofing around with it, I HIGHLY recommend you pair it up with Yonac's Kaspar. The two apps are made for each other! Mapping the various Kaspar layers to the various midi channel that Chordmaps2 poops out, plus Kaspars arp, morphing, etc. etc. Holy hell! It's like Klaus Schultz moved into my iPad!
World's #1 QWOP Fan Ilove listening to prog rock,full of melody but my heart aint into learning theory and my mind just isn’t smart enough hence my luck comment.
World's #1 QWOP Fan If you have parents with musical genes,of course you will have better luck in learning music theory. It’s about your genes,I have battled depression all my life,just to make a four bar block of music for me is a huge effort,there is luck involved.
+Jellybeantiger My musical theory expertise runs to, "Every good boy deserves favour. If he has a clean face." I went o a 'posh' school and took piano, violin, flute and trumpet lessons - nope - I am Teflon to musical theory! My dad was a fairly famous jazz musician in the 1940s. I ended up playing so-so guitar. This though is great, because as Doug has explained, you set it up and then prat about, but you can't go wrong! All the time that you are doing that, you can see what you are playing is called in 'proper music language'.
To the developers of this app, I love this tool for working out chords. It'd be great if you would now allow us to map this to our physical midi controllers now. ;) Thanks for creating one of the best audio apps for the ipad!
The developer should be thanking you really. I would never have bought this app if there was no video supporting how to use it.
There are some good chord apps that I hardly ever use simply because the developer can’t be bothered to make a UA-cam video on how to use it.
Spot-on! WTF is going on with people today - humans haven't changed that much in the last century, let alone the last few decades, but now there is this, "You figure it out." attitude. I blame the gaming culture, but not everyone likes gaming, the rest of us just want answers. These videos are fantastic - Doug is sending me to the poor house, or at least to the basement of it, because I already live there. ;-) Videos are good - this one I would say is essential, but what developers need to do is what the big guys did - an instruction manual and a reference manual. Heck, they could make it digital and even charge, so no pounds of paper involved...
A great thanks for this review ! I must confess that if i had seen this app just for a few minutes without any piece of information, i would not have kept it in mind. But watching your review made me understand how it can be useful to get new chord progression ideas ! So i bought it using your link, of course ;-) thanks for your work. It’s so usefull for all the ios music producers community.
Great demo Doug
I've had great fun sequencing chords after watching the Touchscaper demo.. so i google Ipad and chords.. and now.. i find myself here, where you've said "Incredible, Essential, Amazing, Most useful."
It looks like i'm off to the appstore! Cheers Doug.
Andrew Fox Right and I’m here seconds after purchasing the Chord Polypad app another one he raved about and suggested & now This ChordMaps2 I’m really loving this what I needed Smh
Essential app tool, not such a true statement spoke Doug, you’re a prop star dude!!
Superb! What a fab addition to the iOS landscape. Fantastically educational, truly useful for composing and live. Thanks for a great video.
It’s a great app for creating musical progressions and melodies!
Nice to have - good demo Doug
New video for this coming very soon
Bought it because of this video! Thanks!
Great video and demo of how to use an app like this where you literally have western music theory at your fingertips. It’d be very nice if there were similar apps for other scale approaches as well.
I had the Chordmap app and totally missed that they released a new version 2 app. The original is very similar but with a simpler layout. This is very interesting and a good thing for those that want to explore chord progressions and the like.
Awesome App. Isymphonic orchestra Strings + Harp and this is also stellar sounding plus many more of course :) Also works great with Trance Sounds like SynthMaster Player . Soo good. Thx for the Review . Well done :)
Super awesome video Doug! Thanks for all you great work!
Fantastic job, Doug. Buying it!
Love what you do, Doug. I just sent something on PayPal. God bless!
Thank you for the support, and I'm really happy you enjoy the videos😎
Useful app, but whey is the chord definition is in portrait mode while everything else is in landscape? A sure way to put your neck out if you use it for learning the chords… thank you for your review!
Great Vid again! So usefull! Is there an easy way how it works within Audiobus or AUM to record it in Cubasis?
i thought i'd be nonplussed by this ( especially as it aint exactly aesthetically pleasing ) - but actually it looks very interesting indeed. i've also been mulling getting the ChordBot hardware chord thingie. When production delays ease up
Can you play it from a Midi Keyboard hooked up to the Ipad or can you only touch play notes?
What app did you use with ChordMaps2?
I can’t under stand what you are saying and neither does cc. Can’t recognize the app either. Thanks for the great info otherwise
Is it possible to send the midi information via midi out to trigger another midi device or is it transmitting between ios apps?
I’ve just bought this and can’t get it to work. I’ve tried with Animoog, Magellan and Cubasis. I’ve set the Midi channels up and there’s nothing, no sound at all
Great review! Congratulations. Do you know if this app can play a chord through midi command sent to him? I want to play chords by stepping on my midi foot controller. If not, can you suggest any iOS app that can do it? Thanks a lot .
Hi you should be able to do that withScaler 2
Nice work Mate!
Amazing app... can spend hours experimenting.
Valdis Krebs sadly thats the hard part of the ios music production.
Ive spent countless hours making sounds and then nothing to show for it except a huge smile.
It's apps like this which make me want an iPad. There are similar things for Windows but this app in particular look phenomenal. Too bad these developers won't port their apps to Android.
I know right! They pretend android doesn't exist.
This is why i have Ezkeys on the mac ... though they work very well together
Doug, is it possible to send the output from chordmaps2 as midi or audio to Cubasis ?? I also wanno know if this is possible for Chordion as I bought boths apps after looking to your nice and clear video's about them :) Superb !!
dedfoc62 I’m also trying to figure out how to make it work with Cubasis
Thanks for very informative tutorials. Would like to know if from the Ipad, will it be able to control a workstation keyboard like the Kronos? Thanks and more power to you.
Can we record in this app?
If I want to record a progression?
Hey Doug, this B s 16 app how do you spell it coz I can’t find it ,maybe I’ve got the name wrong...super vid as always!Thx
I don't know if you still require the info but I think it is called "bismark bs-16i"
I’ve found that ChordMaps 2 doesn’t record properly with BM3 as it doesn’t register all the notes when you trigger. Has anyone else experienced that? Any work around to this? Please help!
Can anyone explain to me how to get this to work with Cubasis. How do I set it up in Cubasis
What exactly did you do at time [12:08]
in order to "get the right melody"? Or could you just play anything as long as you choose the chords within the progressions?
Would I be able to hook this up to bm3?
How play a complete music? Why is better of the ChordPolyPad?
How do you connect bs 16 with this app
Yes. How do you, mine is not picking it up
Is it still Anaí le. Can’t find it
I’ve been having trouble controlling some synth apps from ChordMaps2. I set the midi channels correctly but I get no sound. Any ideas?
Read what Corey writes on the spp's usage in the manufacturer's homepage. You may need a MIDI bridge to get the MIDI data to where you want to get them.
I’ve had the same problem. I haven’t tried the MIDI bridge yet but the apps I’ve been trying to use have been ticked in the MIDI destination slot. But no sound, as yet
Isn’t this kind of like the chord /!scales player in Reason?
This would be great for android Galaxy View.. Will this be an option for android users?
when it comes to apps like these, you can forget android. For some reason, developers don't make music apps for android.
Can we use it with multi keyboard controllers ?
Nice!
Does anyone know which app the choir voices are from? And also the clarinet? (both sound pretty sweet)
Zetetik - All the sounds are from BS-16i
Thanks man! That's really useful for me! :)
This, or Chordbot ?
Beautiful...makes music theory FUN again! (huh???)
Can it do jazz? Brubeck, Coltrane, Davis, Peterson, Tyner, ..... you know jazz?
It, on it own doesn’t do anything, if you can do jazz, you will be able to play a jazz progression, this is an app for exploring chord progressions and note leading, check their site, there is a very useful and in depth section on all the theory stuff
Does Anyone knows which iPad he is using ?
I'm using an Air 2
Would be nice to see you trying to show how to make progressions instead of just playing around.
Bro there are millions of theory vids on yt
Great app and a great video. I'd urge everyone to look at the bit about the simple map on the dev's help page (link below), which not only explains the layout of the chords on the fundamental screen but tells you more about chord progressions in a single graphic than you'll get from a shedload of theory videos. Doug likes to start at the root and play against the direction of the arrows, but the grid is actually designed to resolve inwards and downwards rather than upwards and outwards. (As Doug says, you don't need to understand or care about this to use the app - but it's incredibly useful if you're interested in its original purpose as a learning tool.)mugglinworks.com/ChordMaps2/understanding-the-maps.html
the link mentioned in the comment above is dead, but you get equivalent resp. better info through the company's main URL. JFYI.
Another source for the graphical description Nick mentioned above is here: manualzz.com/doc/24833835/understanding-the-chordmaps2-screen
Apart from the fact that it’s kind of frustrating for those of us who spent years and thousand of hours learning and integrating tonal harmony to know that the most uneducated musical dolts will now be able to use the system like masters, we can at least look forward to popular songs that break free of the current pentatonic quasi-modal limbo where most pop music has been stuck for the last couple of decades ;)
That said, thank you for this. I will definitely look into it, it might actually save me hours of work....
Good point - from a musical dolt...
ApexMike Just a little rant, no offense meant....
As a musical dolt myself I do feel that apps like this make us all sound the same. The oyster needs a bit of grit to make the pearl. Surely it's how we break the rules that makes what we do interesting?
Lot's of comments about musical dolts...just saw Joe Perry Project at the house of blues...pure "street" guitarist who took playing from the gut as far as he could, and did OK for himself. We all learned to speak without English Grammar. Music as language is also intuitive. Theory is a big plus. Nice app.
Alfred Thérien haha love your comment.
📌Doug , could you tell me , please ; what is the name of the virtual “ blue mixer “ app , that appears at 01:36 of your video ?!
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Yes, that is bs-16i, it a fantastic app
thesoundtestroom
📌Thank you very much ; my friend !!! 👍
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Nice!
could I ask which app the choir voices are from? And also the clarinet / cello etc? (both sound pretty sweet - Thanks)
Can anyone tell me will I be able to use this app with the Cubasis app. Because that’s my go to app
I also wanna know if you can send the output from chordmaps2 as midi or audio to Cubasis
You can
@@MoonLanta Good to know. I guess Quincy implied an How-do-I-do-that-then in his question. Doug, maybe you can shed some light on this, several people asked the same. Another video on it, maybe?
The bs-16i you are using to play samples...does the app come with samples or do you have to load your own into it?
The app on it’s own makes no sound, you also do not load samples into it, it controls other apps via MIDI
I was referring to just the bs 16. I want to use it just like you are in the video, with the bs16 as the 8 channel sound generator for the chordmap2. Does the bs16 come with built in samples? I ask because the size of the bs16 app is only 50mb. Love your channel and thanks for any answers.
OK I found your tutorial on the bs-16: ua-cam.com/video/0sHeHnCUzEA/v-deo.html
Bs-16i comes with all the sounds. It’s a great app. Roland sound canvas is another great option with many channels and loads of great sounds
Oh, sorry Ritchie, I get it now...yes it does, in fact everything in the demo is from the sound set that comes with bs-16i, but even better is the bs-16i is actually a Sample Font Player, and there are literally thousands of brilliant and free sample font libraries on the net and even more than that bs-16i is also now an AUv3
This thing is screaming out for the ability to midi map it to things like Launchpad & physical keyboards...
Been playing with this. Really great app. For anyone goofing around with it, I HIGHLY recommend you pair it up with Yonac's Kaspar. The two apps are made for each other! Mapping the various Kaspar layers to the various midi channel that Chordmaps2 poops out, plus Kaspars arp, morphing, etc. etc. Holy hell! It's like Klaus Schultz moved into my iPad!
Have you had any luck mapping with Grid Instrument?
Looks dolt-proof, unless you're on windows lol :(
I love most of your vids but please cut down the waffle. Keep it relevant and to the point.
Not nice interface
meh,I am useless at musical theory. :-( all these apps are only designed for lucky people.
But that’s part of the brilliance of this app, you don’t need to know any musical theory to use this...zero...zilch..nada
Knowing theory is nothing to do with luck. It's all hard work. Everyone who knows theory had to put the effort in first.
World's #1 QWOP Fan Ilove listening to prog rock,full of melody but my heart aint into learning theory and my mind just isn’t smart enough hence my luck comment.
World's #1 QWOP Fan If you have parents with musical genes,of course you will have better luck in learning music theory.
It’s about your genes,I have battled depression all my life,just to make a four bar block of music for me is a huge effort,there is luck involved.
+Jellybeantiger
My musical theory expertise runs to, "Every good boy deserves favour. If he has a clean face." I went o a 'posh' school and took piano, violin, flute and trumpet lessons - nope - I am Teflon to musical theory! My dad was a fairly famous jazz musician in the 1940s. I ended up playing so-so guitar.
This though is great, because as Doug has explained, you set it up and then prat about, but you can't go wrong! All the time that you are doing that, you can see what you are playing is called in 'proper music language'.