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  ___ ___   ___ | |   ___| |__   ___  _ __ __| |___
 / __/ _ \ / _ \| |  / __| '_ \ / _ \| '__/ _` / __|
| (_| (_) | (_) | | | (__| | | | (_) | | | (_| \__ \
 \___\___/ \___/|_|  \___|_| |_|\___/|_|  \__,_|___/

Still making music with 1 note bleepblop sequences? feeling uninspired, dismal
and you got the feeling your music is overall boring??????
why not splash out of the box and try pressing three or even more notes at the
same time on your keyboard.
This is called a CHORD and it can make your music more multidimensional.
Ofcourse you gotta have a polyphonic synthesizer.
Yeah I know this might be really obvious for a lot of you but you will be
surprised how many 'producers' dont even know its possible to press more then
one key on a keyboard cause all they have are their analog monophonic synths
or modulars.

Here are some cool chords:

If you don't know what the keys are called on your synthesizer just check this:
 
| |c#| |d#| | |f#| |g#||a#| | |c#| |d#| | |f#||g#||a# | | |c#||d# | | |f#| |g#|
| |-1| |-1| | |-1| |-1||-1| | |  | |  | | |  ||  ||   | | |+1||+1 | | |+1| |+1
| |__| |__| | |__| |__||__| | |__| |__| | |__||__||___| | |__||___| | |__| |_
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |
|c-1|d-1|e-1|f-1|g-1|a-1|b-1| c | d | e | f | g | a | b |c+1|d+1|e+1|f+1|g+1|
|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| 

                             /|\
                              |__________ middle C

Planetarium Chords:

f-1   g-1   c   g   a   d+1

f-1   g-1   c   d   e   a



Good for 'filmic' strings:

d#-1  g-1  a#-1  c  f

d-1   f-1  a-1   c  f


Feeling of melancholical solitude in space:

c     f    g#   c+1

b-1   e    g     d


It is possible to make a chord on a monophonic synthesizer or modular synth
if it has more then two oscillators, just detune the 3 oscillators to 3
different notes.
So if you want to have a CMajor chord: set the pitch of oscillator 1 to 0,
oscillator 2 to 4 and oscillator 3 to 7. Sometimes these pitches are written
in another scale or % on the synth and you will have to use your ears detuning
the oscillators.
You can do cool stuff with this like have a different waveform on each
oscillator. Add some portamento and you get really cool lead sounds!
Some synthesizers with more then 2 oscillators are the Minimoog, Novation Nova
and supernova, Korg Monopoly, Moog Voyager, Waldorf Blofeld, Pulse, Sledge,
MFB Dominion and the VOLCA BASS can do this cool trick too!
Ofcourse there are lots of polyphonic synths with more then 3 oscillators
where you can do this trick too...Roland JV/JD-series, Kawai K1 and K4 series,
The Korg Microkorg (in double voice mode - you get 2x2 oscillators which you
can detune however you want) and lots more.
Also zillions of plugins can do this ofcourse!