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Loving this thread! Full of useful info. Thanks everyone for sharing.
 
That midichords thing looks v cool Kamikaze. I have Autotheory but don't like how it works. Some of the other plugins on that website also look cool (e.g. midichord analyzer). Here's the website... http://www.thepiz.org/plugins/?p=midiChords 

An excellent YouTube demo of Midichord's capabilities here ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ar_3nGx2w 
 

Me wants. Me takes. Me likes.

It seems there are 3 categories of free plugins mentioned here:

1. Plugins that you normally pay for but got for free (eg Black Friday/Christmas gifts, one off freebies with magazines).
2. Magware.
3. Plugins that are always free.

Plugins I use regularly which haven't already been mentioned are:

• Category 1: NI Supercharger and NI Replika (with honourable mentions to Z3ta+ and Rapture - given away with Computer Music magazine).
• Category 2: D16 Frontier CM.
• Category 3: Stagecraft SC Delay (can be a bit flaky but huge amounts of fun are to be had).

The list of plugins that I haven't got round to trying yet could go on for pages.

Got Waves buy one get one free. I think it was Waves Compressor that I got free after buying Renaissance Channel.
 
 

 Some of the freebie with Sonar - I know of one person who still uses those Sonic Timeworks plugins that came with 2.2XL
 
 Even those I upgraded to the VST version, I still keep VSampler on my systems.

kitekrazy1
 Some of the freebie with Sonar - I know of one person who still uses those Sonic Timeworks plugins that came with 2.2XL
 
 Even those I upgraded to the VST version, I still keep VSampler on my systems.

TIMEWorks were the best ever back then I used all of them.   YOU are still using V Sampler ???  Oh my Goodness  
 

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Have another look at my image, I've highlighted the key selections to make it work

Declan, on the midichords vst2 menu I had to enable midi output. Then it shows up as a selectable midi input on the instrument track.

NP, declan :) 


Here's what I have figured out so far...press a key on your controller keyboard e.g. C3. That will appear on the input (lower) keyboard on the screen. Then you can either click with a mouse on the notes on the upper keyboard that will play when you play that key or select Menu --> {chord type} and select whichever chord you want from the list. You can do this for every key on the lower keyboard. For any keys you want to pass through unaffected to the output just shift-click them so they turn orange. I was able to set up a load of keys and save this under Program 1 (click arrow to the right and press save) - I created a midichords folder under my documents to save programs.  To load it back in repeat the above but select the file by clicking once and don't click save (I couldn't find an actual load button). 
 
ZT
 

ZincTrumpet
NP, declan :) 


Here's what I have figured out so far... 
ZT
 

Zinc, I just got back to this thread and thanks so much for your help.  You gave me a great place to start from, and I'm going to dig in.  This is sooo cool.