ChordPulse (Band In A Box Alternative) Tutorial and Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- Band in a Box is the most iconic backing track software that creates very realistic backing tracks. But there are other less expensive (even free) alternatives that are great tools for composing and practicing. Watch this review and tutorial on ChordPulse, a simple, intuitive, yet powerful software for creating chord progressions.
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I've been using ChordPulse in a limited way for a while now and think it's a superb tool - you've shown me features I wasn't aware of - thanks
Cool! Glad you found something that could be useful.
With this too "Chord Pulse" I can finish songs many times faster!!!
I love this great tool because - often ideas come to me so fast and there gone even faster. I stress the importance recording ideas as fast as possible before I can forget them.
I also use tools for example "Pro tools & Sebelius 6/7" for the finish polished songs - what I have found is complicated tools like these are not ideal for save ideas as fast as possible and I have lost so much work not getting ideas down fast enough to go back the next day and work more extensively on the following day.
Simple easy to use tools like "Chord Pulse" are a god send for musicians like me.😍 A song I have been working on for moths will now be finished by Monday😜🤪😊😂🤣
You nailed it.
Very helpful and informative. Thank you very much. Thank you for taking the time to make this tutorial.
Thanks for watching.
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Very helpful and informative. Thank you very much.
Thanks. Very useful review.
My pleasure. Glad you found it useful.
Thank nicely done
How to you buy the software if you live in the USA?
It's a shame, but it seems that for some reason you can't buy it any more in the USA. Because you asked, I just emailed Laszlo, the creator of ChordPulse to ask what we should expect. If I get a response I'll answer your message again with whatever info I get.
@@GuitarBasement
I just checked it out earlier
today, and it appears that we can either buy or
sample for 14 days, but I didn't go through
the download or try to buy it yet. Aug 2 '24.
Hello, I'm looking to make 6/12 with chord pulse and I can't find it. how to do it?
Well Pierre, it seems that this is a limitation since there are only predefined grooves to choose from and they are only the more common time signatures.
@@GuitarBasement but 6/8 and 12/8 rhythms are also very common
Is piano the only instrument available?
MIDI output has separate tracks for guitars, keyboard, bass and drums so you could usu those however you wish in another program. If you are referring to the piano keyboard for inversions, that's really there to represent things graphically. There is no guitar keyboard display if that was your question. Sorry - a bit late replying.
Hi GuitarBasement and thanks for the video. very useful indeed. Can you download your Midi file after you have created it and use it in other music software for example in my case Garage Band?
Absolutely, that was my original intention when I started looking into these programs. You reminded me though - I was going to make a video about that (if I didn't already??..jeez..I'm getting old!). I tried this out just now and dropped a midi file from Chordpulse into Mixcraft. It puts guitar, bass, drums, piano and pad on separate tracks. You can also drop the MIDI file into notation software to create a music score that you can edit.
In what format does this save? WAV, mp3? Is this a Standalone application, or DAW Plugin?
It's a standalone program. You can export midi (.mid) files. Those can be be imported to any DAW or music notation program. ChordPulse has no capability to output wav or mp3.
@@GuitarBasement Use Chord Plus with Winlive Synth Driver and you will have quality sounds and save from midi to wave
Thank you for taking the time to make this tutorial.
It is very well explained and detailed.
It is a very powerful and simple tool
Glad it was helpful!
Nice video. Do you know if you can change styles in same song? Like 1.verse Swing - 2 Feel, and then 2.verse Swing ?
Thanks, yea that would be nice, but unfortunately not. It's a great program for throwing together a fast backing track but beyond that it's limited.
Appreciated, but it both seems to be out of development and also to not have a mac version.
Correct.
Chordpulse is what I personally use and I like it because it sounds like older
versions of Band in a box from the 90s and early 2000s as Band in a box
originally started out as midi. I think this is better than band in a box
especially if you want that low budget general midi sound.
i am also comming from BIAB , and i find it became a Gaz Factory
Francois, you have me stumped. What's a Gaz Factory? John
@@GuitarBasement too many options , too complicated , i am using 2008 and if i could find an older version , i do not like their Realstuff.
biab dont use samples... go read their page they specifically say they don't its a unique system
Today CHORDPULSE stopped .. J J A Z L A B also good alternative
$29.95 for a bunch of cheesy MIDI riffs with no control over drums/bass/guitar/anything ??? It's better to spend $49.95 on something like Magix Music Maker and get proper high quality loops that are totally configurable.
Perhaps you're missing what Chordpulse is all about. I find it really fast to make a backing track in minutes that you can play along with. I checked out Magix and it doesn't seem like that's the case. It may work for you but for me I like to keep things simple. If I want to do multi tracking I'd rather do all the parts myself. Chordpulse can help to get that process started.
Not for USA💩
Yea, that's really too bad. I hope that will change.
Sounds like crap, sorry dude. The 90s want their sounds back 😂😂😂
As a standalone it is what it is, and useful for creating backing tracks fast. You could always take the MIDI into other software and do whatever you like with it. I think it's great and don't know anything that you can make tracks any quicker than this.
Midi can plugged into VST.
Use the midi files to use any instrument sound you want with premium VST instruments Boom!
One question. How can I program ChordPulse scripts to play guitar strumming only?
ChordPulse creates one type of arrangement for each Style. If you click on Play then Mixer, or simply hit the M key, it will give you a mixer where you have more mixing options. Another way is to output a MIDI file and drop it into your DAW program. It separates the instrument into separate tracks so that you could edit or remove any tracks that you like.
Very useful, but is there a way of making 3 chords repeat 5 times, and then change for the chorus?
Sure, as long as the three chords are 3 bars long. Just add 5 pages using the same number or letter for the 3-chord progression, then add a new page (with a different number or letter) for the chorus.
ChordPulse is a fun little chord program i agree with that. However there are some *HUGE* flaws that in my opnion makes it not worth buying anymore.
1. You can't do "Push" chords (chords that are NOT on the downbeat) ChordPulse will play them depending on the style you choose, but you can set a chord at for instance offbeat of 2.
2. You can't change time signatures so you can't for instances do a song in 7/8 unless there is a style for that (which there isn't)
3. You can ONLY choose the chords in the chords list that comes with ChordPulse, so you can't get it to play for instance C7#9b13
4. The sounds are very standard midi sounds, you can save it as a midi file and then load it into another problem with better sounds, but that's gonna take a long time.
5. ChordPulse haven't been updated or gotten a new release or any extra featues since 2.5 (which was released in 2017). So it's not worth buying in 2023.
I hear what you are saying. I communicated with Laszlo the creator of ChordPulse a few times, and earlier this year he had asked me if I had any ideas for improvements, or other software ideas. I just forwarded your message to him. Hopefully he doesn't give up on the project and will add the kind of improvements you suggest to improve the product.
@@GuitarBasement that is awsome. I mean if you could have a combination of ChordPulse and Jjazzlab you would have the ultimate alternative to Band in box. The only thing missing in ChordPulse is that you can put the chords anywhere in the bar and not just on the downbeat, and some better sounds.and the only thing missing in Jjazzlab is that you can do chord inversions and more styles and chords to choose from. So a combination of those two would be the ultimate chord program
Hi, i was hoping you could help, I've been trying to download chordpulse 2.6 and keep getting a message that states, "Unfortunately, due to legal constraints, we cannot ship the product to the country you have chosen." from My Commerce, A digital River company. any ideas?
I just tried and got the same thing. I've bought through digital river in the past with no problem. I don't know what's going on. You can get still download the 14 day trial which is the same file but without the key. Have you tried support@chordpulse.com?
So i contacted chord pulse and was told an export treaty expired 1/1/24. it is only available in canada, uk europe until a new treaty is ratified. hopefully soon.
Interesting, I never realized that there were rules like that.
Thank you so much! It's very helpful for the guitar lead!
You bet.
Nice! Thanks for sharing.
Nice job as always !
Thank you.