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schwung-chordflow

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A midi fx module for Move Everything that allow different chords to be played toghether to create chord progressions.

README from GitHub, Apache-2.0

Chord Flow (Move Everything)

Chord Flow is a chainable MIDI FX module for Move Everything that lets you play and combine chords for better chord progressions. Browse banks of chord presets, play pads to trigger chords, and edit/save full pad sets.

Current behavior

  • Starts in a preset browser with bank shown in the title bar (CF: <bank>).
  • Click (jog press) loads the selected preset and enters edit mode.
  • Jog in browser scrolls continuously across all banks.
  • Pad presses select the active pad and refresh the edit values.
  • Global Oct (default +2) transposes all pads in the current preset.
  • Global Trans adds semitone transpose (-12..+12) for the whole preset.
  • Pad Oct adds per-pad octave transpose on top of Global Oct.
  • Bass supports slash bass (none or note).
  • Bank parameter in edit view jumps directly to the first preset of a bank.
  • Save row writes a new preset snapshot to the User bank.

Repository layout

docs/
  PRESETS.md
src/
  module.json
  help.json
  ui.js
  presets/
    fmc_*.json
  dsp/
    chord_flow_plugin.c
scripts/
  build.sh
  build-module.sh
  install.sh
  test.sh
tests/
  test_chordflow_pad_switch.c
  test_chordflow_pad_switch.sh
  test_chordflow_save_behavior.c
  test_chordflow_save_behavior.sh
  chordflow_ui_behavior_test.sh

This layout matches the same structure used by modules like superarp and eucalypso.

Preset banks

At runtime, banks are loaded in this order:

  1. Any presets/*.json (except user.json) -> one bank per file
  2. presets/user.json -> User

Save always targets presets/user.json (User bank).

Local-only/private banks can be kept under presets/private/ (gitignored) and copied manually as needed.

Preset format

See full format docs here:

Build

./scripts/build.sh

Output:

  • dist/chord-flow/
  • dist/chord-flow-module.tar.gz

Test

./scripts/test.sh

Release

Releases are tag-driven via GitHub Actions (.github/workflows/release.yml).

git tag -a v0.6.1 -m "Chord Flow v0.6.1"
git push origin v0.6.1

Before tagging, keep these in sync:

  • src/module.json version
  • release.json version
  • release.json download_url

Install to Move

./scripts/install.sh

The module is installed to:

/data/UserData/move-anything/modules/midi_fx/chord-flow/

Preset files used at runtime are under:

/data/UserData/move-anything/modules/midi_fx/chord-flow/presets/

  • fmc_*.json (shipped FMC banks)
  • *.json (additional banks, one bank per file)
  • user.json (saved user presets) This module ships FMC banks only (fmc_*.json); no default.json is included.

Custom chord bank .json files can be added either with Move Everything Installer (Manage Presets) or by copying files via SFTP into this presets/ folder.

References