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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.
Root Key
You can set up the root key of the chord pads.
Root Key Pane
The Root Key pane allows you to change the root key for chord pads. It also allows you to transpose chord pads and to change the enharmonic spelling of the assigned chords.

Root Key Pane

The Root Key pane allows you to change the root key for chord pads. It also allows you to transpose chord pads and to change the enharmonic spelling of the assigned chords.

To open the Root Key pane, click Root Key in the chord pads zone toolbar.

The following options are available:

Pitch fields

Allow you to select a pitch.

If Transpose Pads is activated, the selected pitch determines how the chord pads are transposed.
If Transpose Pads is deactivated, the selected pitch sets the root key for the chord pads.

Transpose Pads

Allows you to transpose all chord pads to the selected pitch. If you deactivate this and select another pitch via the pitch fields, the root key for the chord pads is set.

Enh. Shift

Allows you to change the enharmonic spelling of notes.