The Magic Circle – Inspirational Chord Progressions To Kickstart Your Music
“Chords” is a simple to use but highly effective creative tool to have in your arsenal – simply place this MIDI effect ahead of any MIDI-triggered audio generating plugin and hit play in your DAW.
The innovate software will generate looped options for up to 8 chords with full control over chord shape, inversions, velocity and more.
Then just drag the MIDI straight from the plugin to your project, letting your creativity flow freely, guided by the suggestions from CHORDS!
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Conjure Unique Chords Of All Shapes & Sizes With Just A Couple Of Clicks
When you first sit down at a blank project sometimes you need a fresh hit of motivation and creativity. That’s why CHORDS is here for you. Originally designed for EDM productions, but useful for a variety of genres, this clever workstation will conjure chords of all shapes and sizes with just a couple of clicks. Try out new ideas for your tracks within the intuitive interface and let this plugin take the strain, from suggesting single 4-note chords to producing entire 8-chord riffs.
Global Or Granular
Use the global controls to adjust inversions, length, speed and root key of the entire playback, making on-the-fly adjustments to your entire riff a simple process. To get into the detail, click a segment for more granular control over chord shapes (including major/minor variations), individual inversions and velocity.
Simple Segments
With up to 8 segments, each containing a different chord type, you can choose to trigger between one and four notes per chord. The playback of these segments syncs to the host BPM of your DAW, always remaining locked in time. You can add and subtract segments with ease and change a range of parameters, independently for each segment.
Essential Parameters
Each segment can be programmed with inversions from -6 to +6, transforming chord shapes and placing the root note inside of the chord itself. Experiment by pushing the lowest notes up an octave, or highest notes down an octave, turning your chords inside out.
Just The Tonic
With your chords loaded and a segment chosen, use the 18 buttons in the centre of the interface to choose Tonic, Subdominant or Dominant chord shapes. From simple triads, right through to more complex shapes, let CHORDS find the right notes for any related chord. Fancy a G7sus4 or a Bm7b5? Just let this plugin find the correct notes and work out the difficult stuff for you.
Export MIDI
To get the chord progressions into your own projects, simply drag and drop from the plugin to your DAW. Then you can edit to your heart’s content, chopping up the MIDI, transposing and twisting the CHORDS suggestions to suit your own style of music.
Powerful Presets
CHORDS includes multiple factory preset progressions, all labelled in detail. These are useful musical motifs to get you up and running quickly which can eventually become the basis for whole tracks.
Features
- Chord-creating MIDI effect
- Connects to any sequencer
- Global and per-segment control
- Intelligent harmonic progressions
- Preview mode for in-plugin playback
- Export MIDI
- Factory presets
- Resizable interface
- PDF Manual & Tutorial video
Plus FREE “Combustor” Compressor!
COMBUSTOR is a unique way to create personalized compressor timbres. This inspirational effect features adaptive saturation processing to add character and crunch to your audio, all within a single plugin.
5 Saturation Types
With multiple saturation models you can choose the type of adaptive saturation for your own audio. Depending on the characteristics of the incoming signal and your compressor settings, saturation will be applied in different ways. Experiment for yourself by cycling through the different saturation options and tweaking the saturation mix dial to taste.
Controls You Know
As well as producing creative ways to compress audio, COMBUSTOR is also easy to use, with controls familiar to anyone who’s ever used a standard compressor. All of the normal compressor controls are present and correct: threshold, attack, release, ratio and knee. W.A. Production even included a sidechain mode for effortless external triggering.
Input, Output & Mix Ratio
Use the Input and Output sliders to compensate for any gain boost or reduction caused by the compression settings with up to +/- 24dB attenuation. This allows for very accurate comparisons when A/B’ing. Use the Mix ratio control at the bottom centre of the interface to dial in as much (or as little) of the compression as you like.
Visual Feedback
The central stereo meters show exactly what’s happening to the signal as it’s being processed in real time. This allows for accurate monitoring at every stage of the signal chain.
Presets
With many included presets, it’s easy to select starting points for your own compression experiments. Tailored to specific instruments, genres and audio effects, these factory options include everything from subtle dynamic shaping to fully-crushed limiting.
Features
- Compression with built-in adaptive saturation
- 5 different saturation types
- RMS / Peak ratio
- Sidechain mode
- Visual feedback
- Pop & click free bypass
- Responsive & CPU friendly
- Factory presets
- Resizable interface
- Full PDF Manual & Tutorial video
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So What Exactly Can I Do With “Chords + FREE Combustor”?
“Chords” is a highly effective creative tool that will provide hours of inspiration for your next project, from suggesting single 4-note chords to producing entire 8-chord riffs in no time at all!
Once your music is written, use the FREE “Combustor” compressor and its unique personalized compression timbres during the mix process to add character and crunch to your audio productions!
Still not convinced? Give the 10 day Demos a spin – CHORDS / COMBUSTOR
Note: Please be aware you will be required to visit the W.A. Production website in order to create an account, redeem and download your product. We do not host the download at VSTBuzz.
"Chords + FREE Combustor" by W.A. Production
77% off "Chords + FREE Combustor" by W.A. Production
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- 77% off the normal price (normally €125)!
- CHORDS
- Chord-creating MIDI effect
- Connects to any sequencer
- Global and per-segment control
- Intelligent harmonic progressions
- Preview mode for in-plugin playback
- Export MIDI
- Factory presets
- Resizable interface
- PDF Manual & Tutorial video
- FREE COMBUSTOR
- Compression with built-in adaptive saturation
- 5 different saturation types
- RMS / Peak ratio
- Sidechain mode
- Visual feedback
- Pop & click free bypass
- Responsive & CPU friendly
- Factory presets
- Resizable interface
- Full PDF Manual & Tutorial video
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
- macOS 10.15 and later (64-bit only)
- Windows 8 and later (32 / 64-bit)
- AAX version requires ProTools 11 or higher
- Still not convinced? Give the 10 day Demos a spin – CHORDS / COMBUSTOR
- Note: The Mac version of this plugin is 64-bit compatible only and will not function on 32-bit systems.
- Note: Please be aware you will be required to visit the W.A. Production website in order to create an account, redeem and download your product. We do not host the download at VSTBuzz.
- “Chords” is a highly effective creative tool that will provide hours of inspiration for your next project!
What People Think About 77% off “Chords + FREE Combustor” by W.A. Production
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"For us, anything that can improve our workflow can be a game-changer, and CHORDS certainly appears to be that. The ease with which we can come up with new musical ideas and build useful foundations for our tracks using the plugin is huge -- and we love the easy-to-use and eye-catching design of the UI."
VINAI
Italian EDM Production & DJ Duo
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"I'm really enjoying CHORDS so far -- sometimes, I just need a bit of inspiration when I'm stuck in a rut, and CHORDS makes it quick and easy to discover a useful looped progression and inspire the creation of a new song concept. Excited to keep exploring the plugin!"
22Bullets
Dance/Electronic DJ
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"This is the kind of super-simple plugin that’s going to be an essential tool for producers looking to get away from boring 3-finger triads. Truly inspirational!"
The Samplecast
Music Industry Blog
Christian – :
Why only 9 Stars?
Well, I could give 10 as well, I like this super-easy and intuitive Interfaces for playing around with generating a chord-sequence and I like the way to manipulate them. And I like Combustor as well, I like the saturation it makes and its fast and easy!
So why only 9 stars? Just to tell you that you can upgrade Chords to Chords Pro (for 4,46€ and then again to Chords Pro+Notes (4,96 again). That works pretty fine, so you get the full and actualized Chords Pro + Notes via buying this bundle here and then the upgrades at PluginBoutique (snatcht a freebie there) or at waproduction.com (and snatch a free Vocalbundle there). If you do this you have a bundle worth 12 of 10 stars I think :)))
Chris – :
Chords is a great tool when you have a blank project and need some inspiration to kick off an idea. Very simple to use, I can see me using this a lot going forward.
Combuster is a usefull freebie to this pack, though I have a lot of other plugins that does similar things. Though, it seem low processing, so I might use more than some of the more notable plugins I use.
My only gripe with it it, is there are bigger versions in a Pro version and a Pro version with notes, which greatly advance the usefulness and inpiration, so it won’t be long until you upgrade (which is pretty cheap).
DAMIAN – :
CHORDS is partly a creative tool and partly a musical toy. It allows you to create an initial musical idea when you are just empty in your head. It is worth upgrading to the Pro version (currently for $ 5 on the manufacturer’s website).
Combustor, on the other hand, is a nice free add-on, but it doesn’t stand out in any way, just a compressor like many.