SimpleChord4.2.2.345

Name: SimpleChord
Price: 12.95 $
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

31 July 2009

Quick chord reference for musicians.

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Note: SimpleChord is not being sold anymore and is listed only for people who had purchased it in the past.

SimpleChord is part tool and part toy. It's a chord reference and composition tool for Mac OS X. It can show chords, play them, and order them into progressions, and it doesn't end there.

Many Musical Possibilities - From power chords to jazz, it's all there.
Your Composing Assistant - Arrange chord progressions right in the application to try out new sounds or use it to create accompanyment.
Have iPod, Will Travel - Chord dictionary and saved progressions can be exported to your iPod.
Works with MIDI keyboards - Use a MIDI keyboard peripheral to find chords that work with your melodies.
Print and go - Print out progressions for easy learning when you're away from the computer.
Reverse Lookup - Punch in the keys, find out the chord.
Right on time - Convenient metronome and tempo-finder tools built-in.

What's new in SimpleChord

Version 4.2.2.345:

Fixed bug with looped playback of progressions

26 Reviews of SimpleChord

I downloaded this app and, although it says it is version 4.2, the app is actually version 4.1.

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I enjoy this app because it does just what it says, very easily. I can hear the chord, see it diagrammed on the keyboard, assemble it into a progression, then export that out as a midi file. It works very well, and the developer is very responsive. Great learning tool, fun to just play around with, too.

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Been using this for a long time now and it just gets better and better. Great program, great support. 5 stars doesn't do it justice :D

I have used SimpleChord for a year now and find it to be really valuable as a sketch tool to rough out ideas to be fully developed later in Logic Pro. First, it's rock solid; it's never crashed on me. With low machine overhead, it runs on my fairly old portable, so i can work anywhere. The user interface is simple letting me get a lot of work done quickly on developing chord progressions. I can play with some ideas, get a good idea of what I want, then go to Logic Pro to flesh out the songs.

What a wonderful little program; elegant, useful. It's meant to do just what it's meant to do. In addition to it's technical workings, it's also beautifully designed. It's obvious that somebody's paying attention with a high level of consciousness. I'm really pleased.

I like the software and found myself using it, so I purchased a registration on March 10th. I waited and waited for the code to be sent, then I figured it's the weekend so I'll give it a couple of days. Now it's March 15 and I still don't have my code. I have emailed the developer twice with no response. Maybe thru MacUpdate I can get a response.

Superb, simple, easy to use program. great for finding those forgot chords without interrupting your work flow with over complicated features! chord progression is a welcome bonus too 9/10

I'll stick with a more professional tool from a more main stream company as opposed to a little shareware product that may or may not be there tomorrow.

This is a really good learning tool. Progressions are a great addition. But v.3 no longer recognises input from my midi keyboard

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It's been a year since SimpleChord 2 was released. Since then, you've provided lots of suggestions. I've listened to all of them and implemented three of the most requested features in version 3.0: chord progressions, inversions, and a reverse lookup. It's even better now -- and hopefully will continute to get so. Thanks to all of you who have supported the development of this app!

This looks nice. If it could display a guitar fret board as well that would be even better (Or show the chord formation at least)

SimpleChord is an excellent program and toy. Unfortunately, I don't find it very useful for my composition. SC needs the ability to perform chord inversions. You don't want my tunes to be all I chords, do you? :) This feature alone would sell me. The feature to play programmable chord progressions would make me pay ANY price!

I recently downloaded the 2.1.1 version of Simple Chord and let me just say that I love it. I was very happy to find such software on the net. I studied keyboarding in college but only got so far. I find it boring and cumbersome to look up each chord in books. Simple Chord makes it easy because all the chords are at your finger tips. Its really cool and helpful. I have my keyboard hooked up to my Imac and pipe it through GarageBand. All I have to do is look at the lited keyboard in Simple Chord then practice the same fingering positions on my key board. Good Stuff. Thank you Wonder Warp for aiding in my continuing education. Sincerely John Davis, SD

If you've used SimpleChord in the past, and didn't care much for it, you should really take a look at the latest version, SimpleChord 2. More useful, stable, and fun. It works with MIDI keyboards, you can keep favorites, even compile a chord database onto your iPod!

Why can't anyone compress their disk images??????? It takes an extra step to download. PLEASE, COMPRESS YOUR ".DMG'S"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm only getting a text coded web page when I double click the download option. I was just wondering if and how could I go about downloading Simple CHords1.6 because I would like to try it.

Excellent! If it came out yesterday it would have been even better as i needed an app just like this! But still, i will use it in the future no doubt! u get 5 stars from me too!

Perfect for a guy like me who likes to play the piano or compose a GarageBand tune, but cannot read/write sheet music. Great app all around.. nice GUI.. very clean... perfect companion to GB.

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