Plugin Boutique has announced an exclusive promotion on a new kind of plugin for expressing harmony and unlocking creativity. Offered at a 20% discount, ChordAXE explores the emotional architecture behind iconic songs, helping users find new harmonic ideas—by ear, by feel, and by instinct.
ChordAXE is an innovative MIDI plugin designed to bridge the gap between complex theory and intuitive musical expression. By mapping natural harmonic relationships into an interactive, playable Mesh, ChordAXE inspires a seamless creative flow for finding, arranging, and expressing chord changes—entirely by ear and by feel. Drive instruments with voiced chord notes to build song structures, beat foundations, melodies, riffs, and basslines. Music theory optional.
ChordAXE features
- Play instruments with total harmonic control over chord choices, keys, voicings, and rhythmic expression of chord notes.
- Navigate all chords and keys in their natural harmonic order with the playable Mesh.
- Play chord changes traced on the Mesh with timing and velocity from MIDI keyboards and tracks.
- Borrow iconic chord-change presets to rework with different keys, voicings, and rhythmic flows.
- Explore trace presets in the Mesh view to decode and master the harmonic DNA of different musical vibes.
- Control chord-change voicings by ear in four dimensions: key tonic, pitch register, inversions, and pitch spreads.
- Express chord changes with rhythmic pattern presets or drive voiced chord-note timing and velocity from MIDI keyboards and tracks.
- Play outside the movable MIDI control zone to add notes on the fly (melodies, riffs, basslines, passing tones, pedal notes).
- View all generated chord notes and added notes on the keyboard display as they play.
- Play chord voicings beyond physical reach on fretboards and keyboards.
- Play seamless legato chord changes beyond human hand speed.
- Drive virtual instruments with well-voiced chord changes in 3-, 4-, or 5-part harmony with an optional sub-octave part.
- Carry individual harmony parts and patterns through changes so notes overlap musically from chord to chord.
- Build harmony chops by exploring all possible combinations of chords, keys, and voicings instantly by ear.
Available for Windows and macOS (VST3, AU and AAX), ChordAXE is on sale for $39 USD until June 30th, 2026 (regular $49 USD).
More information: ARTonic Music
