Chord Freeze

You want something to solo over. Your options are a looper pedal you have to buy and carry, a backing track that locks you into someone else's key and tempo, or a second guitarist who is not currently in your living room. Chord Freeze is the fourth option. Play a chord. Tap Freeze. It holds — indefinitely, unchanging — while you play scales, modes, and leads on top of it. Tap again to release, and freeze a new chord. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR GUITAR Because it is your guitar. Chord Freeze captures the sound coming in and sustains that: your pickups, your amp, your pedals, your hands. It isn't a synth patch doing an impression of a guitar, and it isn't a sampled instrument. The chord you hear held is the chord you just played. Under the hood it's a granular engine rather than a looped buffer, which is why it doesn't tick, stutter, or breathe the way a short loop does. There's no seam to hear,…