HyperChord Pro · macOS

Compose beyond
the expected.

A visual composition environment for building, transforming, and performing music—where deliberate ideas and unexpected discoveries belong together.

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HyperChord Pro main workspace with layered notes in a color-coded riff editor

A different way into music

Music you can
see, shape, and explore.

HyperChord Pro treats composition as a visual, malleable space. Notes live on color-coded interval lanes, riffs can carry their own tonality and sound, and musical ideas remain visible as they grow.

Start with a precise intention or let a generator suggest a direction. Build conventional phrases, put notes inside notes with supernotes, then reshape the result without losing the original idea.

The workspace

One place for the whole idea.

The Riff Editor, contextual controls, transport, and project information stay close at hand, so structure and detail can be edited without breaking the flow.

HyperChord project information controls — **The Project Is Music**Define the project length, tempo, and meter, then add three kinds of multilayered, polyphonic tracks: Riffs for notes, Drums, and Synths for sonic landscapes.

HyperChord riff controls — **Set the Vibe**Tonality is a HyperChord specialty. Color-coded feedback reveals what modes, scales, and chords look like, so you’re never confined to piano black-and-white. Sounds are assigned in pairs—with MIDI options—seamlessly connecting samples with fluid synths.

HyperChord note and supernote controls — **Bring Notes to Life**More than mere slots on a piano roll, HyperChord’s notes can contain melodies and ornaments within them, called Supernotes. Add glides between notes for the ultimate expressive palette.

Generate · transform · discover

Give an idea somewhere new to go.

Generators create musical material from waves, lines, geometric shapes, spirals, and text. Randomizers introduce controlled variation. Rhythm patterns turn reusable structures into fresh phrases.

HyperChord note generator controls — **The Beauty of Geometry Made Musical**Turn simple geometric forms into notes or velocity. Use waves, lines, ovals, spirals, polygons, and even text to create new forms in musical composition.

HyperChord randomizer controls — **One Riff, Infinite Variations**Vary pitch, timing, duration, and expression by degree to create new variations of your music in real time—then Flash Capture the one that catches your ear.

HyperChord rhythm pattern editor — **All Is Rhythm**Build rhythm templates from numbers, rests, numerical seeds, or Morse code. Apply them at any scale to Generators, Drums, and the Jammer to create cohesive compositions and fascinating expressions that quicken the pulse.

Harmony stays visible

Think in color.
Move in harmony.

Intervals, scales, modes, and chord progressions are part of the visual language of the workspace—not theory hidden behind a menu.

HyperChord chord sets and progression palette

Build progressionsSave chord sets and let any riff follow the harmonic movement.

Transpose freelyMove material by key, scale, degree, or octave while preserving its musical role.

Remap old ideasImport MIDI and reinterpret it inside another tonal framework.

Composition becomes performance

Play inside the music.

The Jammer gives you an expressive instrument that inherits the composition’s tonality. Perform in key, shape arpeggios in real time, and capture the result alongside your arranged layers.

The Jammer is a hyperinstrument in a class of its own. In the right hands, it can leave an audience enthralled by what they hear—all on its own.

Independent musical layers and MIDI channels

Dedicated drum and synth tracks

Internal subtractive and FM synthesis

Shape the sound

From a sketch to a finished part.

Choose and edit internal voices, arrange independent layers, or send the performance to external instruments. HyperChord can remain a self-contained composition studio or become the generative center of a larger setup.

We had to build our own synthesizer. Supernotes live between music’s visible surface and the audio roots of sound; conventional MIDI and sample playback alone cannot express that depth.

HyperChord musical layers palette — **Then There Were Layers**Since music happens in layers, we thought we’d give you a new way to think about and manage compositions while keeping everything present.

Made for a real studio

Ideas move in—and out.

Compose

Build riffs, chord progressions, drum tracks, layers, and full arrangements.

Perform

Use the Jammer, automation, MIDI input, and external instruments in real time.

Record stereo audio or export multitrack MIDI for Logic Pro and other studio tools.

Coming to macOS

Start with a note.
Follow it somewhere new.

HyperChord Pro is being prepared for release. The launch version is planned at $149.

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