A chord pad for songwriters and producers. Pick a key. Tap a pad. Bend the chord with the joystick. Record a loop and export a MIDI file you can drop straight into your DAW.
Pick a key and a scale. Eight pads light up — the seven diatonic chords plus the octave repeat of the I. Drag the joystick toward maj7, sus4, m7♭5, dim. Eight variations on the wheel, no theory degree required. Magnitude controls velocity: soft taps stay soft, deep drags get loud.
Flip to Notes mode and the seven chord pads become fourteen scale pads — two octaves of the current key, laid out so the melody on your head finds its way out without you hunting for it. Same key picker, same joystick, different voice.
Hit REC and play. The looper captures the chord pad presses in time, lays them under a BPM-locked playhead, and lets you overdub another layer on top. Two taps, one loop. No DAW gymnastics.
Three effects: low-pass filter, delay, reverb. Drag to reorder, toggle each one live, A/B two chains side by side. The whole rack sits one tap away from the pads, so the tweak happens while the idea is still warm.
Hit the share icon on the looper. Out comes a .mid
file. Drop it into Ableton, Logic, FL Studio, Reaper, or
anything that opens MIDI. SynthChord is for the sketch. Your DAW
is for the song.
Acoustic grand to vintage tape, brass to FM bell. Browse by category, search by name, swap mid-sketch without losing the loop. Bring your own SoundFonts and samples if you have them.
Per-row volumes, a metronome with ten timbres from drums to wood block to ride bell, a low-latency switch for tighter timing, four languages, light and dark themes. The instrument is the same; the feel under your finger isn't.
No subscription. No trial countdowns. Buy SynthChord Pro once, keep it across reinstalls and devices on the same store account.
Most DAWs treat chords as an afterthought. Type the notes, draw the MIDI rectangles, hope the harmony works. Most chord-pad apps treat them as a toy. Pretty colors, no useful output, can't get the sketch out of the app.
SynthChord sits between those two. The Nashville Number System is built in: every pad shows its roman numeral and its absolute name, so the relationship between key and chord becomes muscle memory. The looper catches the idea before it slips. The export drops it straight into the next room.
No tracking. No ads. No subscription. Your presets, recordings, and imported sounds never leave your device.
Made by an indie developer and musician, for songwriters.
