Now, with the new app, Cymasphere, any musician can play the most complicated chord progressions. It is an ingenious tool that promises to bring sophisticated harmony options, not years of university music classes.
Built by a small company in Nevada, it’s just landed on Mac and Windows, as well as iOS iPadOS, and Android. It functions both as a MIDI controller and chord generator. Tap colorful “cymatic” icons to trigger note data for various chord voicings played conventionally, strummed, or arpeggiated.
While a MIDI keyboard is shown with the notes, it isn’t touch-sensitive — the cymatics are the controllers. Options include a basic built-in piano sound or using Cymasphere to drive your virtual instruments. Intriguingly, it can output full orchestral templates with individual chord notes sent to different MIDI channels.
Visually, Cymasphere stands out with multicolored banks of cymatics representing preconfigured or custom chord progressions. Tweak the key, inversion, voicing, and more via an easy-to-use dashboard. Global settings allow cross-device syncing of presets.
An arpeggiator handles patterns, but true sequencing is coming soon in an accompanying plugin. This will unlock piano roll editing and more sophisticated chord progressions beyond basic block or strummed styles.
Few products can rival Cymasphere in harmony. On the spot, create complex chords that will inspire you to songwriting or orchestral pieces. Plenty of happy accidents by juxtaposing unknown keys and progressions. Easy to set up, with robust MIDI routing between devices.
