ChordWeaver vs VAPolyQuad Usage & Stats
ChordWeaver is a music composition app based on 5-part modern harmony extensively used in symphonic scores, cinematic soundtracks, jazz chord changes and contemporary songwriting.
ChordWeaver offers 3636 chord resolutions/combinations and 10 instrument or ensembles with 1920 sound files.
The techniques used include altered chords (or unresolved appoggiaturas), parallel ninths, giant steps, tritone substitutions, bi-tonal ambiguities as well as traditional chord progressions.
For some composers ChordWeaver will provide a fast, easy way to work with modern harmony. For other composers it offers a whole new world of possibilities and variations on traditional progressions. For the seasoned pro, it is a huge time saver.
Here is how ChordWeaver efficiently guides you through the composition process. You choose your starting chord, and ChordWeaver instantly shows you and lets you listen to multiple resolutions to that chord, traditional ones and more creative, unusual ones. With each subsequent chord choice, the process is repeated.
ChordWeaver seamlessly guides you to multiple possible chord options (some you will be familiar with and others you will not have considered), lets you listen to your work in progress, offers the option to transpose up or down and allows you to save your final product as a .chords file or .mid file and export or share it.
You can also mirror ChordWeaver on your main system, play back the audio and improvise on your favorite instrument.
Likewise, you could import the MIDI file into your sequencer and play back the harmonies using your preferred sample libraries.
These chord options in ChordWeaver are the result of decades of studying the scores of the masters in various genres. They reflect the actual use of these chord progressions and resolutions by these composers and are not simply based on purely theoretical considerations.
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- Music
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VAPolyQuad is a virtual analog polyphonic synthesizer for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It features 8 voice synthesizer, effects, sequencer and audio visualization tools. It operates as a stand alone or as an AudioUnit Extension (AUv3). Stand Alone supports Ableton Link, MIDI and audio file export.
Single voice of the synthesizer features four oscillators, two mixers, two resonant high pass filters, two resonant low pass filters, two amplifiers, four ADSR envelopes and four LFOs. The oscillators features continuously variable wave shape and wide variety of modulation. The filters are modeled on the Sallen-Key filter circuit and cascaded OTA filter circuit for classic analog sound. The Effects include delay, chorus, flanger, reverb, eq and compressor. The sequencer features piano roll and parameter automation editor to program 16 bar pattern per clip. Project files can be saved in iCloud Drive, so that the project can be accessed from iPhone, iPad or Mac.
- Main Features -
Virtual analog 8 voice polyphonic synthesizer.
Four oscillators per voice.
Flexible audio signal and control signal routing.
Keyboard Control Routing
Two type of Lowpass filter, cascaded OTA model and Sallen-key model.
Support MIDI 2.0
New User Interface built by SwiftUI for improved performance.
Built-in Sequencer. 16 bar patterns per clip. Total 8 clips. Piano Roll and Parameter automation.
Support Audio Unit Extension (AUv3)
Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Support iCloud Drive to share project files between the platforms.
Audio Export. Linear PCM format (AIFF, WAV and CAF) and compressed format (AAC)
Support Ableton Link, Bluetooth MIDI, MIDI In / Out.
370 Factory Presets
- System Requirements -
A13 Fusion or above is recommended.
AudioUnit Extension (AUv3) requires host application which support AudioUnit Extension.
AudioUnit Extension is supported by Apple Logic and Apple Garage Band on iOS and macOS. For any other DAW, it depends on the application and some of them don’t support AudioUnit Extension.
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- Paid
- Music
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ChordWeaver VS. 
VAPolyQuadDecember 31, 2024