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Using Chord Pads
Chord pads allow you to play with chords and to change their voicings and tensions. In terms of harmonies and rhythms, they allow for a more playful and spontaneous approach to composition than the chord track functions.
Chord Assistant
The Chord Assistant assists you in finding chords to create a chord progression for your song.
Proximity Assistant
The Proximity assistant uses a set of harmonic rules, in order to offer you suggestions that match the reference chord.

Proximity Assistant

The Proximity assistant uses a set of harmonic rules, in order to offer you suggestions that match the reference chord.

The reference chord is displayed at the bottom, in the center of the Chord Assistant window. The further away a chord suggestion is situated from this chord, the more complex the suggestion.

Note

The Proximity assistant is not available in the right zone of the chord pads zone.

To open the Proximity assistant, activate Show/Hide Chord Assistant Window on the chord pads zone toolbar, and select Proximity.

To audition a suggested chord, click it.

The last 3 suggested chords that you clicked are shown in bold.
To assign a suggestion to the first unassigned chord pad, double-click the suggested chord.

You can also drag the suggested chord and drop it on a chord pad.

Chords that cannot be fully displayed are underlined. The entire chord is shown in the tooltip.