Inky AUv3
by Scale Degrees
Scale-based chord generator and arpeggiator that sends MIDI only
Mar 19, 202660 minWatch on YouTube ↗
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- 9:17Built-in lessons, chord charts and song hooks grouped by decade
- 12:36Keyboard trainer stepping chord by chord until each one is played
- 20:13Fixed velocity, which stops a controller's dynamics overriding the pads
- 20:52Humanize at fast, medium or slow, loosening the timing of a chord
- 39:29Four arpeggiator pages, and pasting one across all four at once
- 56:09Recording the output to a second track so the plugin can be removed
What it does
A MIDI effect that lays out the usable chords of a chosen key as pads, with voicings, inversions, octave shifts and per-chord editing, then sends the notes on to whatever instrument you point it at. It makes no sound itself. An arpeggiator runs across four pages, humanization loosens chord timing at three strengths, and key switches on a controller change pages or stop playback.
In the demo
Jade runs it in AUM into Piano Tech, works through the lessons and the keyboard trainer, then builds an arpeggio across all four pages and copies it between them. She finishes in Logic as a MIDI effect, recording Inky’s output onto a second track so the plugin can be deleted.
Worth knowing
iPad and Mac only, no iPhone, and it needs a host plus an instrument to make any sound. Velocity from a controller overrides the pads unless the fixed velocity setting is on.
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