The Melody Loops page gives you chord-tone pads to improvise over — tap in time with a chord progression and every pad stays musically in key.
Melody Pads
The pad grid always plays notes belonging to the current chord, so anything you tap fits. Choose 8 or 12 pads for a wider range.
Pad Octave & Loop Octave
- Pad Oct — shifts the melody pads up or down an octave, instantly, mid-performance
- Loop Oct — separately shifts the octave of the chord progression accompaniment, without touching what the pads themselves play
Keeping these independent means you can play a bass-register lead over the accompaniment, or shift the accompaniment down a register while your pads stay put — no need to touch both together.
Chord Pattern
Choose a built-in progression to play underneath your melody — Pop/Rock, Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Soul/R&B and more, in both major and minor. The chords advance automatically in time; your melody pads follow whatever chord is currently playing. The Chord Tone button shapes the sound of this accompaniment specifically — it's separate from the tone of the pads themselves.
Arp
Toggles an arpeggiator on the chord accompaniment — instead of the chord playing as a block, its notes ripple in sequence underneath your melody.
Key
Tap Key Up to shift everything up 3 semitones, or open the key picker to jump straight to a specific key. Key (and Major/Minor) are shared across Melody Loops and Chords — change it from either page and both follow. If anything's currently playing, the change queues cleanly to the next bar rather than landing mid-phrase.
Loop Recorder
Melody Loops, Chords and Sample Pads all share the same 8 loop slots and the same recording engine — record a melody pad performance here and it sits alongside anything you've recorded on the Chords or Samples 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
Because the loop recorder is shared, re-recording a slot from the Chords page changes what plays back here too — they're the same loop, just recorded from wherever's convenient.
Tone
Tap the wave icon in the header to shape the sound of the melody pads — nine instrument presets (Piano, E.Piano, Cosmic, Synth, Organ, Flute, Sax, Harpsi, Bell) plus full manual control over wave shape, detune, modulation, vibrato, attack, decay, sustain, filter resonance and stereo width. This is the same tone the Chords page's own pads use — one shared sound across both.