A chord progression is made up of chords based on the chosen scale (eg I V vi IV, which you’ll hear in my demo video).Most popular music follows a sequence of chords, known as a chord progression. Chords are two or more notes within a scale that are played together.Musical keys in the minor scale are popular in dance music, and many big room / mainstage tracks are made using this scale.
There are five tracks set by default, and you can add and remove as needed. There is also an Acapella/Audio track that you can use to import an audio file, say if you’ve got a vocal file for a song that you want to remix. This is all pretty standard stuff, but what sets Odesi apart from everything else out there right now can be found to the right of the screen: Here you’ve got the Chord, Melody, Bassline, and Drums tracks. Odesi looks like a digital audio workstation’s Midi editor window: You start out with a blank grid in the middle of your screen, and you’ve got a piano keyboard to the left (seven octaves, which we’ll get to in a bit) and a set of drum sounds below it. Shown here is the projects screen that has all your Odesi files. Get the latest Flash Player or Watch this video on YouTube.In Use You can use Odesi either as a desktop app or in-browser. The Adobe Flash Player is required for video playback.
You can watch the video for the desktop version of Odesi here, but the app version is FREE so better still, simply download it and have some fun.
Odesi Chords is a free download and available for iOS – no Android version yet. The song you do create though can be saved (minus vocals) and either be imported directly into the desktop version for further construction or exported as MIDI or audio to your DAW. One thing the app can’t do is record into the app, so if you’re a singer or rapper you will be able to create a basic song and rap or sing to it but not record. With Odesi Chords you can create chord progressions, bass lines, and drum patterns as a skeleton for your track and comes stocked with various drum sounds, synth patches, bass lines etc. They’ve now released the iOS version called Odesi Chords and whilst ‘proper musicians’ may balk at the idea of using a computer program to generate chord structures based on hit songs, having something like Odesi Chords on your iPhone or iPad could be really handy for those odd moments when inspiration strikes.