[LAU] Tool for chord recognition

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Thu Apr 23 08:57:17 EDT 2009


Hallo,
drumkid at gmail.com hat gesagt: // drumkid at gmail.com wrote:

> Just new to this list I obtained no result when I searched the archive with
> the keyword "chord recognition". Hence this posting. For my
> composing/arrangement sessions from behind the keyboard (with MIDI) I'm
> looking for a chord recognition tool (preferably a good quality one that
> also recognizes inversions). Quick to use hardware devices seem not to exist
> (at least haven't found one through Google). I guess I will have to resort
> to a software tool. On my laptop (with midi interface) I have the CCRMA
> suite (fedora core 7) with associated software. Has anybody some idea what
> software tools are available that work with this configuration. (Under XP
> there's quite a range of tools available, but...).

You can try the [chord] object in Pure Data. [chord] is part of the externals
library Maxlib by Olaf Matthes, don't know if that's part of Fedora. The
help-file describes an example use.

Ciao
-- 
Frank



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