Notes

A new way to play chords.

The first fully featured synthesizer that transforms your midi keyboard into an expressive chord instrument.

1. Play Chords

• White keys play full, expressive chords.

2. Switch it up

• Black keys transform how your chord plays.

3. Perform

• Choose from hundreds of progressions and play styles.

Chords are just the beginning.

With layered sound engines, effects, and modulation, every sound has texture and atmosphere.

Analog infused sounds.

From Moog One brass and Prophet-10 bells to classical guitar, we recorded the most iconic and interesting sounds we could find.

Using Notes’ engines and FX, we created five sound packs each with expressive playable chord progressions.

What you get.

Notes comes packed with chord palettes, play styles, samples, multi-sampled instruments, and FX.

The Lab

The Lab is your place to quickly build custom chord progressions.

• Chord Sampler
  • Drag in a loop, audio, or MIDI file. Notes automatically detects the chords and assigns them to keys so you can play, tweak, and transform the harmony instantly.
• From Scratch
  • Enter your progression and switch between voicing styles—Wide, Pop, Ghibli, R&B, House, Dilla, Caesar—to change the vibe in one click.

Notes Factory Packs

Notes comes with five sound packs, each with its own collection of chord palettes in a distinctive style.

• Dark Synths: dark, glowing synths and moody chords that feel like a late night drive through hazy neon streets. Hypnotic, swelling, and atmospheric.
• LoFi: grainy keys drifting through a hazy anime world. Soft, fluttering textures that land right in the pocket.
• Pedal Dust: guitar tones pushed through pedals until they blur. Diffused, distorted, and dusty tones paired with open, hazy chords.
• Notes Keys: fresh, go-to keys and synth staples for tomorrow. Created with the heavy-hitters we recorded at the Synthesizer Museum in Berlin.
• Textures: melodic, glitchy details that sit somewhere between a sound effect and an instrument. Use them as layers for subtle movement and ear candy — like a pad, but better.

Included Sample Instruments

The Chromatic engine offers playable multi-sampled instruments ranging from rare synths recorded at the Berlin Synthesizer Museum to classical guitar.

Sampled Instruments:

• Casio CZ-3000
• Yamaha DX7
• Classical Guitar
• Roland Jupiter-8
• Mellotron
• Moog Minimoog Model-D
• Moog One
• Piano
• Sequential Prophet-10
• Wurlitzer electronic piano
• And more…

Features

• Chords
  • Each preset comes paired with a chord palette
  • Browse hundreds of chord palettes
  • Each chord palette has a unique play style
  • Transform chords using black transformer keys: play style, strum, arpeggio, reverse, and ramp which can be assigned and used like a mod wheel
• Lab
  • Chord Sampler: drag and drop midi or audio onto the chord sampler to detect chords and build your own palettes
  • From Scratch: type in chords and choose voicing styles to create palettes from scratch
• Synth Engine
  • Analog style synth engine with sine wave, triangle wave, sawtooth wave, square wave, and supersaw options.
  • Super Oscillator for a variety of supersaws. Options for layering unison voices, tuning, detuning, dry/wet mix, and widening.
• Sampler Engine
  • Automatic pitch detection
  • Set root note and fine tune
  • X-Fade your sample to remove any unwanted clicks
  • Reverse
  • Loop
• Chromatic Engine
  • Choose from a collection of playable multi-sampled instruments ranging from rare synths recorded at the Berlin Synthesizer Museum to classical guitar
• Macro Page
  • Macro page to transform sounds without interrupting your flow
  • 2 macros, automatically mapped for all presets
  • Drag and drop macros onto any parameter you desire
  • Map multiple parameters onto each macro
  • Drag and move the musically responsive blob to change the macros
• Effects
  • Chorus: Clean, Juno I, Juno II, and Juno III
  • Crush: Hardcore and Fizz
  • Distort: Screamer, Fizz, Dirty Tube, and Diode
  • Lazer: Phaser effect
  • Noise: White Noise, Tape Hiss, Tape Hum, Tape Air, Tape Crackle, Clean Vinyl, Dirty Vinyl, Space Open, Space Hellium, and Space Wind
  • Shaper: Soft, Fuzz, Sine, Crazy
  • Tape with hiss and wobble
  • Vintage guitar pedal emulation: Rainger, Ambience, Ambiverb, Breath, Digital Hall, Gated Reverb, Plate, Soft Plate, Tascam, and Tunnel
• Master Effects
  • Delay: with pingpong and sync
  • EQ
  • Grains
  • OTT Compressor
  • Reverb: Intimate, Studio Room, Concert Hall, Cathedral, Plate, Ambient Wash, Dark Ambient, and Drum Chamber 
  • Shimmer: Pitched Reverb, Lush Synths, and Infinite Space
• Modulation
  • 2 LFOs
  • Sine, Triangle, Saw, Square, and Noise wave forms
  • Rate control and BPM sync
• Filter
  • Analog modelled processing
  • Low pass, band pass and high pass shapes
  • Filter for each sound engine
• Patch Browsing
  • All packs have icons for easy browsing
  • Favorites category so you can always find your favorite sounds
  • Create your own packs and build a library of custom sounds
  • Browse by pack name and sound categories
• Other
  • Activate and deactivate your own machines (internet connection required to activate)
  • Fully resizable interface