Chord-O-Mat 3

Chord-O-Mat 3 - Trigger Device: Chord-O-Mat 3 - Slave Device: Chord-O-Mat 3 - Push Loopback Device:

1 Introduction 20-24 working with the Slave Device 31-33 how to use the Push Loopback
2 Overview Device
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3 Settings
4 Scales & Root Note ____________________________________________
Chord-O-Mat 3 - Push / external Keyboard:
5 Chord Matrix
6-12 Chord-Slots 34 Troubleshooting
25-30 working with Push or an
13 Scale Correction
external Keyboard
14-17 Octave Designer
18 Modulation
19 Output Monitor

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Introduction 1

Chord-O-Mat 3 is a Max for Live Chord Library and Trigger Device

for Ableton Live 10 with Push integration.
It’s designed to have quick access to the chords in a Scale,
to explore Chords, make chord progressions and play Live.
In the Device you’ll find all Scales from Push and
also the Scale Collection of Tobias Hunke.

There are two Devices coming with Chord-O-Mat.

1. the Slave Device, which is similar to the build in Lives „Scale“ Device,
follows the Scale or Chords from the Chord-O-Mat Trigger Device.
With this you are able to sync the Scales easily over your whole Live Project.

2. the Push Loopback Device - with this you can record

chord progressions if you play with Push

It’s recommended to use only one instance of the

Chord-O-Mat 3 Trigger Device in your Live Project.
Because the Devices communicates also with other Devices,
there could be unwanted behaviors when you use more than one Device in your Live Project.

Have fun!

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Overview 2

1
on the top row of Chord-O-Mat you’ll
3 1 find the Settings
2
2 Here you can set the Root Note & the Scale

This is the Chord Matrix where all Chords

3 from a selected scales are highlighted

6 These are the Chord-Slots, where you can make

4 Your own Chord Collection per Scale
4
Here you can Modulate the Chords:
5 Inversion, Strum and Octave Pitching

With the Scale Correction, you can Pitch all

6 incoming Notes the Notes of the selected Scale
7
The Octave Designer can add / removes Notes
7 from the chords
5
Output Monitor: here you can Monitor the
8 incoming / Outgoing and mapped Midinotes
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On the top of Chord-O-Mat 3 you’ll find the Settings for the Chord-O-Mat 3 Device

Always on Top: the floating window will never hide This will show the Slave Device Control Panel

Reset Show the Push Settings

Since Version 3.0.6 you’ll find the Push Settings
Opens the Browser and downloads the manual In the Device inside the Device Chain. (Page 25)

If you work with Push and

Write or Read a a *.json file Want to record
with your individual Chord Collections Chord Progressions in Clips
to disk. You can activate this.
Please read on Site XXX

Shows the last

Played Chord

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Scales & Rootnote 4

Here you can set your Root Note & Scale:

For every Scale there is a Preset for your individual Chords in the Chord Slots.

You can Save everything to a *.json File on your Disk. To load the File you can go over the read button or simply drag the file on the Scale Section.

You can Store a Chord Collection for every Scale

(-> please read the chapter about the Chord-Slots) The Chord Collection will be stored inside your
Ableton Live Project, but you can also store
a *.json file to disk to load the Collection into
Another Live Project

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This is the „Chord Matrix“ here will be displayed
all chords which fit into the selected scale.
Here you can trigger all chords with your mouse.
The „Chord Matrix“ gives you an Overview of the Chords that are in the selected Scale.
You can Trigger all chords with the Mouse and also with your Keyboard or Push, if „play all chords“
is selected.
The Chord Matrix is about to explore chords and have an Overview.
With the „Chordslots“ you can make a chord selection of max. 16 Chords to
play them via Keyboard, with Push or make Chord progressions with Clips.

These are the „Chord Slots“ here you can drag & drop a
chord from the Matrix to trigger it from your Keyboard or
from Push

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The Chord Slots are here to make individual Chord Collections for every Scale
And to Trigger the Chords from a Keyboard or from Push.
If you dragged a Chord from the Matrix into a Chord Slot the Button on Push will
Get automatically mapped.
When you work with a Keyboard you have to learn an incoming Midi Note the the
Chord Slot

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Chord Slots - learn Midi Notes 1 7

To Trigger a Chord with a Keyboard or from your Clips, you have to learn a Midi Note to the Chord Slots:

1. Be sure that the Device is receiving Midi from your Keyboard check your Input routing in the Midi Track the Device is inside

2. Click on the “midi learn” button, if the Button blinks red, then hit the Key you want to assign.
Then the Key is mapped & you can trigger the Chord in this Chordslot

The Note is learned and you can

Activate the midi learn Button Play the Key you want to assign to the Slot
Trigger the Chord

Delete the Midi Mapping here

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Another way to assign the Midi Notes is to click on the Button “midi mapping”. Here you can select “Standart Mapping” which assigns all Chord-Slots
To a Midi Note. This is recommended if you’re working with Push & the Push Loopback Device

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Chord Slots - re-arrange the Chords 9

You can easily move Chords from one Chordslot to another, just by drag & drop

1 2

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Chord Slots - Chord follow Root Note 10

If you change the Root Note, the chords in your Chords in the Chordslots will always follow the Rootnote.

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If there is a chord inside a slot, the Button on Push is highlighted and you can trigger the chord from there.

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The “Master Trigger” function is another way to trigger Chords.

If you activate the “Master Trigger”, you can map a midi note
to it.
If the Midi Note is played, it will always trigger the last chord.

The Output if you hit a Chord Slot is Muted,

when “Master Trigger” is activated, it changes just
another Chord.

This function is cool to work with midi clips, to have always

the same rhythm structure, while you can change the chords
on the fly.

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Scale Correction 13

if you have connected a Keyboard only the Notes that fit into the selected Scale
will be played. All other Notes will be muted (in Gated Mode) or will be pitched
To the Scale (pitched Mode)

With Push, you can ignore it.

Scale Correction: turn the Scale Correction On or Off

min / max: here you can set the range of your Keyboard, Notes outside the range will be bypassed

Keyboard: shows the Notes which fit into the selected Scale

pitched / gated: if Pitched is selected all Notes that will not fit into the scale will be pitched to the Scale.
If Gated is selected all Notes that will not fit into the Scale will be bypassed

Octave: you can Pitch the Octave up and Down

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With the Octave Designer, you can add or remove Notes that will be played.
It shows also the Notes of the chord that is actually played
And you switch easily and fast between them with the 8 Presets.

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If "bind to Root Note" is activated the lowest

Note of the chord is always nearest to the
Root Note of the Scale. In this Case it's "C"

If "bind to Chord" is activated the lowest

Note of the chord is always nearest to the
Root Note of the Chord.

The lowest Note of the C Major Chord is C

...

... the lowest Note of F Major is F ...

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Octave Designer 16

In this example a C Major Chord is played.

The Notes of a C Major are C E G, they are displayed in the
grid and highlighted red.

Here the first Note (C) is duplicated and pitched one Octave lower

Here a F add 9 Chord is played which contains the Notes:

F G A C D

the first Note (F) is duplicated and pitched one Octave lower

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Here the Same with the C Major Chord

C is pitched one Ocatve lower
E is pitched one Octave higher and the original Note is removed
G is pitched one Octave higher

With the F add 9 Chord:

F = -12
G = +12
A = +12
C = +12

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Modulation 18

here you can Modulate the Chord and make some Variations.

Invert: Inverts the Chord

Octave: Play the Chord in different Ocatves
Strum/Speed: if Strum is selected it triggers the Notes of the Chord up or down if random is
selected it plays the Notes of the triggered Chord in an random order.
humanize: here you can make some variations of the Strum feature

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Velocity: this Parameter sets the Velocity, if you trigger a chord with the mouse. It has no function, if the chords are triggered with an
external Keyboard, Push or via Midiclips.
Mapped Notes: shows the Notes, that are mapped to the 16 Chord Slots
Input/Output/both: Shows the incoming Notes from the keyboard or Clips (Input) or the Notes of if you trigger a chord Chord (Output) or both.
Panic: hit Panic to kill all hanging Notes
Touchstrip is On: this button is activated, if you play with the Touchstrip on Push and the Output of the Triggered Chord is deactivated.
If you havn’t connected a Push and the Button is activaed, just click on it.

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Slave Devices 20

The Slave Devices are similar to the integrated „scale“ effect of Ableton Live, with
the difference, that you can control the harmony of your whole Liveset with the
Chord-O-Mat 3 Trigger Device and the Slave Devices.
You can place the Slave Device in any other Midi Track of your Live Project and
you can assign them to one of four Groups, which can be remote controlled from
the Chord-O-Mat Trigger Device.

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If you click on the „Slaves“ Button, you see the Remote to control the four Slave Groups.

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Mute: the Slave Track is Muted receive: the Slave Device plays the Track IN: the Slave Device receives
Chords of the Chord-O-Mat Midi from the Track and adapts
Trigger Device. The Scale to it

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Here you can set up how the incoming Midinotes

Will be processed, when the Slave Device is set to
“Track IN”

Scale is off: Scale: Chord:

The incoming Notes Only the Notes that fit You can “learn” a chord via the “to chord” button
will be not processed to the selected scale will and only the Notes of the Chord will be played or
be played Filtered

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“To Chord” Feature: To learn a chord to the Slave Device, where the Midi Input or the Midi from your clips are processed,
Hit the “to chord” button, then play a chord. After this only the Notes from this chord will be played.

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Push / Keyboard 25

Connecting Push

If Push isnʼt regognised by the Device, hit rescan Show / hide Octaves & Slave remote control
1 4

2 Select if you want to use Push 1 or Push 2
3 Shows what Device is connected
5 Adjust the sensivity of the Pads for switching things, like
Octaves, Octave Designer and Slave Remote.
The Pads for triggering the Chords are not affected by this parameter
6 Unlock from Push (if you remove the Device, or turn it off, the Matrix
of Push didnʼt react anymore. You have to unlock the Device from
Push first)

1 2
4
6 3
5

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Push / Keyboard 26

To Trigger Chords from Push or a Keyboard, youʼll have two Trigger Chords with Push if „play all chords“ is OFF:
Modes.

1. „play all chords“ is ON: in this Mode all chords will be spread
over the Buttonmatrix of Push or over a Keyboard, and youʼre able
to play and explore the chords within your scale. If you hold a
chord on Push or your Keyboard in this mode and click with your
mouse on to a chord Slot it will be copied to this Slot.

2. „play the chords“ is OFF: Here you can trigger the Chord
inside the Chordslots. You can make a selection of 16 Chords per
Scale, that means every Scale has itʼs own preset for the chord
Slots.
In this Mode you can also control the Slaves, the Octaves and the
Octave Designer

One additional Note: you can play the last chord you triggered
also with the touch strip from Push. If you leave your finger
on the touch strip and you trigger a chord, it will be muted.

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Trigger Chords with Push if „play all chords“ is ON:

Youʼre able to trigger all chords from the selected scale. This is good to explore all the chords.
To assign a chord to a chord-slot, hold a chord on push or your keyboard and click on a chord-slot.
The colors show the different chords, like in this case C-Chords, D-Chords, E-Chords and the colors are shown also on Push.

You can switch between

The two modes with the
“select” button on Push

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If you have connected a keyboard, the chords

will be automatically mapped to the keys.
You can also hold a chord on your keyboard and
click on a chordslot to copy it into there.

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Remote control the Slave Devices with Push:

If „play all chords“ is turned off you can also control the Slave Devices from the Push
Buttons.
On the Left Site of your Push Buttons youʼll find Slave Group 1 + 2 and on the right side
Slave Group 3 + 4

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Mute

receive

Track IN

pitched
/ gated
Scale
OFF

Scale

chord

to chord

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Chord-O-Mat 3 Manual Push - Loopback Device 31

Ok, if youʼre working with Push and you want to make Chord Progressions and record into a clip, there is indeed a problem.
With a connected Keyboard everything is working well, because Ableton Live receives the Midinotes from the Track Input, but if you Play over
Push, the Device receives the messages over the remote script from Push and not over the Track Input.

So, to solve this problem there is a Device inside the Package called „Push Loopback“. This Device just sends Midimessages to the Trackinput
where Chord-O-Mat 3 is. Please read this how to set up everything.
yes … this Device is more a crutch … but there was no way around that.

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1.) create a new Miditrack with
the Push Loopback Device
inside. Then set the Input of
this Track to „no input“
Push - Loopback Device
2.) route the Output of this
Track to the Midi Track where
Chord-O-Mat 3 is inside
3.) Now Chord-O-Mat 3 will
communicate with the „Push
Loopback“ Device and the
Device will send the
Midimessages you have
mapped inside the Chordslots
to the Input of Chord-O-Mat 3
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4.) Be sure you have assigned the incomming
Midinotes to the Chordslots, like you use it with a
Keyboard.
It doesnʼt matter which Notes are mapped. You can use
The same midi mapping as with your keyboard.
If the Slots are not mapped the Device couldnʼt receive any
Message from Push!
5.) Activate “Push Loopback”
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If youʼre using only Push itʼs recommended to use

the „Standart Mapping“ which maps automatically the
white keys to the 16 Chordslots.
If the Chordslots are not mapped, the Loopback
Device wonʼt work.

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No Midi Output:
• If you have no Midi Output from the Device, then check, if the “Touchstrip is on / Output is muted” Button is active.
If yes, then hit this Button or the Panic Button

• Master Trigger is activated.

• Push doesn’t react anymore: Please UNLOCK the Device from Push in the Settings menu, before you remove the
Device or turn it off
• Hanging Midinotes: hit the Panic Button

• No Output with the Push Loopback Device: 1. Check your routing 2. Be sure you have assigned the incomming Midinotes
in the Chordslots

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