Logic Pro MIDI chords to Chord Chart (automatic)?

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SeanFlora

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So... Logic can tell me what chord I'm playing on my MIDI keyboard in the MIDI Activity display. Neat!
And Logic can show all the notes I have recorded into MIDI as notation in Score view.

So, is there really no way for it to take the block chords I play into a midi track (quantized) and display them as chord symbols in the score view???

I'm looking to print out chord charts for studio musicians, and it seems like if Logic knows what chords are what, it should be able to translate that into a chord chart. Am I missing something?

(It feels very likely that I am missing something obvious here, as I am a relative noob to Logic).
 
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There is no way for Logic to automatically enter chords it interprets from your notes into the score editor.

There is a way to have chords displayed in the MIDI Activity display during playback using the IAC bus and an Instrument object in the Environment. Even so, you would have to manually enter the chord names in the score editor.

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As I understand it, this was available option until Logic X. If enough people ask for it, maybe maybe apple provide it again?. But how, what do you think?
 
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DougO said:
As I understand it, this was available option until Logic X. If enough people ask for it, maybe maybe apple provide it again?. But how, what do you think?
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How? In the upper left of the LPX window is the Logic menu. Click on Provide Logic Pro Feedback.

The question for a group of specific notes is how the app will identify the chord when those notes can be known by different chord names. A grasp of chord formulas in the user's fund knowledge is still necessary to ensure chord names fit the chord sequence. As is sometimes overly complex chord names - no doubt accurate but out of context, are identified by Logic.

For applications that include a chord track however well implemented actually have a limited selection of chord types especially for jazz chords. The devil is always in the details.
 
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How? In the upper left of the LPX window is the Logic menu. Click on Provide Logic Pro Feedback.

The question for a group of specific notes is how the app will identify the chord when those notes can be known by different chord names. A grasp of chord formulas in the user's fund knowledge is still necessary to ensure chord names fit the chord sequence. As is sometimes overly complex chord names - no doubt accurate but out of context, are identified by Logic.

For applications that include a chord track however well implemented actually have a limited selection of chord types especially for jazz chords. The devil is always in the details.
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Thanks! I provided feedback today. I agree, they should just use the same algorithm they are using now when Chords are displayed. Maybe its whatever the root is of a 5 note Chord in the right hand is how its identified. so many ways to do it to at least get a default, and then you can edit the #9dim7aug5 whatever it may be manually , but if you're not writing Chick Corea or Herbie Handcock type chords but just simpler stuff, it would be so great to convert the plethora of midi files out there and get a chord chart instead of a score. the older I get the more I like simple 🙂 thanks for the feedback and I hope you provided them feedback too. All the best and God bless! Doug
 
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I used the chord conversion feature from chord notes to chord symbols up to Logic Version 9, I think it was? I was so furious when it was discontinued from Pro X Version. If it spelled the chord differently to how I wanted it, I would just change a note around or change the root, an it was fine. Back then, I wrote several requests to have that feature reinstalled in the new version, but it was never done. and one of the sad parts is, Logic never gave any reason, as far as I know, for the discontinuation. Maybe, if enough of us users keep on nagging Logic, they may reinstate it. It was very useful, and it made my chart preparation for studio work and other performances so much easier and quicker.
 
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I think I read somewhere when I asked about this same issue, that it was really buggy, so instead of fixing it, they removed it. But I think the buggy part was the chord track that transposed stuff. I hated that feature anyway. I think if they just brought back automatic chord detection that you could add to your score, but without having any impact on tracks, it would be simple to do bug free, and would be all I ever wanted from this feature in the first place. Chords aren't difficult to add to scores now, but if I could just speed up my song and play the chords on my piano at the right locations and have the chords show up in my score, that would be a HUGE time-saver for me.
 
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