Notes to chords

I have a hardware synth on which i can play a single midi note and then have it transposed to any chord. Is there a similar function in Logic or an audio unit which does the same trick?
Thanks for the help

Yep. The Chord Memorizer objects. You program them in the Environment.
Normally when you assign a synth to a track, you assign that track to the synth directly. But in the case of a chord memorizer, things work a little differently. First of all, in the Environment you create a new chord memorizer and cable it directly to the instrument you want to hear:
chord memorizer-----> instrument (soft synth)
You then assign the chord memorizer to a track instead of the synth itself. Any notes you play go through the chord memorizer (where you program notes to become chords), and the notes of those chords are then passed to the instrument.
By assigning another track directly to the instrument as well, by switching tracks you can play normally, or, play chords on that synth via the chord memorizer.

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I'm hoping someone can help me with a weird issue when I'm using the caps lock keyboard on my macbook pro (running 10.6.2) with logic 8.
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Thanks guys, I reported it to apple.
It's even more unpredictable though. It seems to me that on a key change the auto strum buttons play the correct chord (not being a musican I am not sure if this is even true, and now I certainly don't trust what it says).
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Change to C minor and without playing any other note or chord, strum Gm... it's still playing G, wrong.
Now strum any other chord and then strum Gm again.,.Now it has suddenly corrected and does play Gm.
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I haven't used or seen Logic Express before. Is the recording/notation better/more accurate in Logic Express?
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How do you deal with them in Logic score?
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3 (2nd bar)
The thing here is: which would be a good technique to do this without messing up things when changing from part to full score view ?
In example 1 I managed quite easily putting two half notes in tempo 1 and 3 then just hided it's stems and added the tremolo simbol at tempo 2. But I haven't found good solutions for examples 2 and 3.
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!http://www.score2picture.com/logicpix/trem.jpg!
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Thanks guys, I reported it to apple.
It's even more unpredictable though. It seems to me that on a key change the auto strum buttons play the correct chord (not being a musican I am not sure if this is even true, and now I certainly don't trust what it says).
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Now strum any other chord and then strum Gm again.,.Now it has suddenly corrected and does play Gm.
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léonie wrote:
As a workaround - if you add a guitar track to your project, you can enable the Guitar Tuner from this track. select the guitar track and click the tuning fork icon.
Then play your midi instrument. It will not show chords, but at least the most dominant note you are playing.
léonie, that is not quite correct. Although there is one Tuner Button in the Control Bar and it seems as simple as clicking the button to open the Tuner window, there is a little bit more to it.
First of all, each Input Channel on your selected Audio Device has it's own Tuner Window.
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