ur.chordio

Hear it before it gets away. You hum something on the way to the kitchen. Normally that costs twenty minutes: find the voicing, click in a kick, wait for the session to open, and by then whatever was exciting about it has gone flat. Here you tap two pads and it's playing. How it plays Pick a key. The seven chords in it land under your fingers, the same seven under each hand, an octave apart. Tap C. Tap Am. Tap F. Nothing up there can sound wrong, so you stop auditioning chords in your head and start hearing them out loud, which is the only way anyone has ever known whether a progression is any good. Hold a chord and it sustains, so your other hand is free to go looking. Hand it to the arp and it moves on its own. The drums are loaded the second the app opens, so you're writing against a groove from the first tap instead of programming one and hoping you still care by the time it's done.…