chords list

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I've been looking in the max forums for a big list of chords, to feed my colls and create a chord sequencer or arpeggiator, and all i have found are simple example patches here and there, with small lists of most common chords. There are many m4l apps and standalone patches which integrate big lists of chords, but unfortunately i couldnt open the source, so i decided to do it by myself.

I've been collecting as much chords as i could for some days and created my personal list, which i want to share with you all because i know this can be useful for others which, like me, are searching and not finding what they look for.

attached you'll find a txt file with this list, also formated in the coll style.
Hope it can be of some help for someone

cheers, and happy new year!

chords-ok.txt
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daddymax's icon

Interesting, thank you.

G C's icon

super nice thank you

WESTON M's icon

So good thank you

Wil's icon

Adding to that list:

pitch_class.pdf
pdf

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Roman Thilenius's icon

and i thought "the chord catalogue" was already taken.

Wil's icon

It’s the same. @Roman posted the recording

I posted the score

The reason I posted is because he uses every cord possible in one octave and takes around an hour to play.

but in the moment after I posted that score, I thought wow this is gonna be a monster to try and program in Max without putting into coll or dict. But I’m gonna take a stab at the two note cords. At least there’s only 78 chords.

Wil's icon

I guess y'all already worked on this.

Still, want to do it without Coll, and with correct rests,

Wil's icon

The link to full score on Tom Johnson webpage is not working.

But he is still alive! Yay.

Have to dig it up.

(the full score)

Roman Thilenius's icon

oh did not notice that you were already talking about the same thing! - so i guess i will not win the first price for this comment. :(

when i learned about this piece 10 years ago i transformed it into a sequencer module which takes step numbers as input (i do that with everything) https://cycling74.com/forums/the-chord-catalog-can-you-generate-it-using-max

p.s.: as it seems you were faster again. :P

Wil's icon

not trying to be fast or first-

just happened to stumble upon one of my favorite all time composers.

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Just another Thursday

maybe I should start a new thread

here is first attempt at measure 1- Chord Catalogue, 2 note chords with correct rhythm

a long wayyyy to go!

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

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Maybe a better more accurate way to do the counting

But I like using phasor~ (I'm just in phasorland these days)

Probably rebuild the entire counting system in RNBO~ --> stay on signal