ChordPadX 2 4+
Chords at your fingertips
Mathieu Routhier
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Unlock instant inspiration with ChordPadX 2, an intuitive and expressive pad-based MIDI controller designed for musicians of all levels. Whether you're composing, performing, or experimenting with new ideas, this app makes it easy to trigger and manipulate chords with a natural touch.
Play rich, dynamic harmonies with just a tap. The velocity-sensitive pads allow you to trigger multiple chords at once, giving you expressive control over your sound. Choose from a variety of dynamic templates or build your own custom layout by dragging and dropping chords into place. Rearrange the pads as needed to create a workflow that suits your creative process.
Each pad is fully customizable, allowing you to fine-tune your chords with advanced editing options. Change the chord type, invert voicings, add a bass note, assign colors, or label the pads to keep your setup organized. Whether you’re a beginner looking for inspiration or a pro seeking efficiency, this app adapts to your needs.
Key Features:
• Expressive Play – Tap velocity-sensitive pads to trigger one or multiple chords at the same time, making your performance more dynamic and natural.
• Customizable Pads – Rearrange, edit, and personalize each pad with different chord types, voicings, bass notes, colors, and labels.
• Flexible MIDI Control – Send chords via MIDI output to any compatible app or hardware, or use an external MIDI controller to trigger the pads.
• Intuitive Drag & Drop – Easily rearrange pads and move chords within the app to create your perfect layout.
• Audio Unit (AUv3) & Core MIDI Support – Integrate ChordPadX 2 with your favorite music production apps, DAWs, and MIDI devices.
• Intuitive Interface – Designed for efficiency, with an easy-to-use layout that keeps you focused on creativity rather than complexity.
With its powerful features and user-friendly interface, this app is the perfect tool for sketching song ideas, experimenting with new chord progressions, or enhancing live performances. Whether you're playing solo or syncing with other apps and hardware, ChordPadX 2 puts the power of harmony at your fingertips.
Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 1.1.0
- Added humanization.
- Incoming MIDI controls are now propagated through.
- bugfixes and improvements.
Ratings and Reviews
Chord midi out
Other similar apps have some of the features but are missing the one I could use. Still don’t find how you set the chord intervals to transmit on different channels. I do see that you can set the bass to a different channel. As far as I can tell the rest of intervals go out on the same channel.
Please change it to allow sending each interval on a separate channel. This will allow using mono SWAM sounds for chords.
Doesn’t seem to allow breath to control sustain or dynamics. Tried adjusting the curve. I am using a wind controller but the chords are not responding to expressive control. The curve can be adjusted but it sounds like a keyboard is controlling them.
Seems a bit buggy. Sometimes playing the user interface the instrument changes. Also had pads change octaves and move. Made sure I was not in edit mode.
I was able to drag and drop from Suggester but the voicing were changed to whatever instrument I had set. Not really an issue. Would like the ability to change voicings like you can in Suggester.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your feedback.
Unfortunately, I am not aware of the problem you described. Please contact support if you find what context or sequence of operations cause it, I would really like to fix it.
Regarding voicings: all the inversions and open voicings that are in Suggester2 can also be used in ChordPadX2. They can be selected under chord, in the pad properties.
Great tool!!!!
This is the ultimate tool I’ve been needing forever. It’s a quick and easy way to assign the chords of your choice to pads including strums, arpeggios, etc.. in flexible ways and with midi in and out, making your phone or iPad in to an midi controller for software or hardware.
Developer Response ,
Thank you so much for your review, I’m glad you like it! :)
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
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Information
- Seller
- Mathieu Routhier
- Size
- 106 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.3 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Mathieu Routhier. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Universal Key $24.99
- Monthly Subscription $4.99
- iOS Key Upgrade $12.99
- iOS Key $17.99
- Universal Key Upgrade $19.99
- macOS Key $17.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
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