A way to send custom MIDI chords, using the MIDI chord FX values or a new dedicated effect. Or at least have more types of MIDI chords available.
MIDI chord FX available predefined values are too few and limiting.
Send custom MIDI chords from a step of a single track.
If this is not possible then at least have more predefined MIDI chord FX values.
Yes, using multiple tracks to send each note of the desired chord.
@silphyd77 Thank you for contributing to the Wishlist. Given that the possibility to crate custom MIDI chords and the availability of more MIDI chords are different features, I have made clear what seemed to be you intent: ask first for custom chords, and if this not possible have at least more in the list of pre-programmed chords. Let’s see what the Polyend team thinks.
Just curious, could you (and anyone else) provide examples of specific chords you are missing?
Hey, thanks for your reply. This is kind of hard for me because I don’t know the chords types and names very well! I usually find them on a keyboard by putting my fingers here and there untill it sounds the way I want (I know I should learn that…). What I know is that I couldn’t find a matching chord FX value for at least 2 or 3 very simple triad chords I needed. I’ll try to decrypt them and find their names if that can help !
@here thanks for the wish! It’s open for voting now… 
Maybe custom chords and/or scales could be contained and red from textfile?
First element of row would be the name of chord that can be selected from chord fx menu, and other elements are midi note values (could be A B C also), like this:
Ryu 40 44 45 47;
Dim3 40 42 45;
Dim4 40 42 43 45;
This would be awesome! Maybe it’s already more or less the same method used behind the curtain? Maybe it could be extended to other cool customization options ?
I know this wish is super old now but I wanted to point out that custom chords would make it easier to sequence inversions. Currently I don’t believe there’s a way to invert a chord with the midi chord function.
Not ideal but i’m using the chord jam vst and just sending a single note from polyend. Gets around it for me.
would be awsome to have some inversions/open chords, etc.
Chiming in on this since it doesn’t seem to have made its way in yet, and I’ve only just started with Tracker+, but Octave arpeggios!! I mean - I’d love to do the classic SID thing of root +12 +12 but the closest I can get is 07C which adds a 5th in there…
I’m a new user and trying to find the answer to this question…until we can punch in our own chords via midi is there a way to select different inversions of the chords? My biggest problem is that it one or two chords sound good in a progression I come up with but the inversion messes things up with the rest of the chords …seems like everything is in the first inversion…this is regards to the Polyend Synth
Hey there, and welcome to Backstage!
This wish is in the Tracker category, so this is not about the Synth. But anyway, none of Tracker/Play/Synth lets you set inversions for your chords.
EDIT: The Play (and +) does have inversions for MIDI and synth chords, when holding down Shift while dialing in chrods.
Agreed, it’s not even possible to do very basic inversions. For example a simple VI, IV, V chord progression in C-major will require:
047; 049; 059; 038
of which only the first is possible. A VI, IV, V chord progression in melodic A-minor would require:
037; 038; 058; 038
of which only the first is possible. It makes natural sounding chord sequencing impossible in the Tracker+.
you can get quite a long way by using enharmonically equivalent chords.. e.g. if you wanted a rootless Cm9 (Eb, G, Bb, D) you could use the Maj7 from Eb.. or the Minor b6 from G (G, Bb, D, Eb) for a different inversion.
.. my issue is that they’re all quite “open”… like.. evenly spaced.. and I would like a Minor9 inversion that goes b7,9,m3,5 .. (note the nice semitone tension with the 9 and m3 in the middle) but there’s no way to do that precise inversion. The only one of the preset chords that has two notes a semitone apart is the minor b6 i mentioned above, which does allow you to find this nice minor9, but the spicy clash is at the top instead of in the middle.
personally i think it would be better to define the chord values as semitone offsets from a root. then you get more for your money by making the Chord FX values relative to the Note (i.e. how the current setup works - but taking the chord table from a text file on the SD??)