The Chords page lays out every diatonic chord of the current key across 8 or 12 pads. Play them live, record your own chord loop, or loop a built-in progression underneath whatever you're doing on the other pages.
Chord Pads
Pads 1–7 are the seven diatonic triads of the current key (I through vii°), coloured by root note. An 8th pad repeats the tonic an octave up. Switch to 12-pad mode to add the II–V chords an octave up as well.
Pad Octave & Loop Octave
- Pad Oct — shifts the chord pads up or down an octave, instantly, mid-performance
- Loop Oct — separately shifts the octave of the Chord Pattern accompaniment (see below), without touching what the pads themselves play
Key
Choose any of the 12 keys and Major or Minor, or tap Key Up to shift 3 semitones at a time — the whole pad grid updates to match. Key and Major/Minor are shared with Melody Loops: change it from either page and both follow. If a loop is currently playing, the change queues cleanly to the next bar rather than landing mid-phrase.
Arp
Toggles an arpeggiator on the Chord Pattern accompaniment — instead of each chord playing as a block, its notes ripple in sequence.
Loop Recorder
Record your own live chord pad performance — this is a different thing from the Chord Pattern library below: instead of looping a pre-made progression, you're recording exactly what you play. Melody Loops, Chords and Sample Pads all share the same 8 loop slots and the same recording engine, so a chord loop recorded here sits alongside anything recorded on the other two pages, ready to play together.
- Tap an empty slot to arm it — recording starts cleanly on the next bar
- Tap while recording to stop early, or let it fill the full cycle automatically
- Tap a stopped slot to queue playback — it joins in cleanly on the next bar
- Tap a playing slot to queue a stop — it finishes the current loop first, never cuts off mid-phrase
- Hold any slot with something recorded for Re-record, Clear, or its own independent Volume slider
- The 1×/2× button sets how many bars each new recording captures
- The master Play/Stop button starts or stops every recorded slot together — across all three pages, since they're the same slots
Recorded chord pads use the same tone as Melody Loops' own pads — shape it from the wave icon in the header on either page, it's one shared sound.
Chord Pattern
A built-in library of progressions you can loop hands-free, independent of your own recordings — Pop/Rock, Blues, 50s/Doo-wop, Jazz, Canon, Country/Folk, Anthem, Modern Pop, Gospel, Soul/R&B in major, plus Rock minor, Classic minor vamp, Cinematic/Epic, Andalusian and Dramatic in minor. The Chord Tone button shapes the sound of this accompaniment specifically, separate from the chord pads' own tone.
- Pick a progression and tap Play — it loops continuously
- Tap again to stop cleanly at the end of the current bar, never mid-chord
- Tap the BPM number to set the tempo