Reaper Chord Track (ARA Dreams?)

There's a sizeable list of features that a majority of users seem to agree are no-brainers, like this, but which Cockos haven't shown any inclination to work on. Whether that's from a lack of interest, or maybe because of technical challenges with how the existing code works, nobody can say.

I agree - this would be very useful.

Tracktion has chord support. Cakewalk has no chord progression, but at least pitch markers (MIDI/audio able to follow it). Is REAPER the only DAW which think that "pitch" is no so important for Music? :rolleyes:

+1 Would like to see something like this too.

I think that while Reaper does not have a native polyphonic pitch engine, there is no point in talking about something like a chord track of the Studio One4 level. At the moment, the closest available way to change the notes inside a chord (I mean audio, not midi) is to use Melodyne. But this is still far from the full-fledged chord track.

Reaper cannot .... ? 

Reaper has ARA, which may be the one of the best polyphonic pitch engines and is also able to detect a sample's key. Anyway, there's also, most likely, some open source library for this stuff as well (if ARA doesn't easily communicate such data through its API). Either way, if multiple DAWs have been able to do it for years, why cannot Reaper? The test project I did which forced monophonic audio and midi notes to conform to a chord progression was done 4 years ago, that's a whole college degree/military enlistment worth of time. It's features like this that make digital ITB musicians feel a major lacking, when we know music theory and see tools floating around of various other DAWs which cater to ITB composition. It's pretty much becoming a standard nowadays. We stay hopeful with Reaper for one reason: Love. While other DAWs tend to have a lot of features that I have access to (e.g. Studio One, Ableton, FL Studio, Sonar, Audition, etc), and know very well, I prefer Reaper be my canvas. I've been tweaking, making toolbars and menus, etc, doing the best I can do to adapt certain workflows to this platform. But with this, there's just no way around it. I need... We need the help of the Reaper Devs.

With the chords for Reaper 6 chord track you could have an editable GUI chord library that allows you to add aliases names to chords, add new chords and edit the chord's notes, ReaTrak matches the region name by if string.find(",Maj11,maj11,M11,Maj7(add11),M7(add11 ),", ","..chord..",", 1, true) then note2=4 note3=7 note4=11 note5=14 note6=17 end

Here's another vote for a chord track in Reaper.

Maybe, just maybe... it is good that Reaper devs haven't rushed to add a chord track. I'm now seeing that the ideal workflow for this has in a sense gone through its own evolution. Zplane has also released a software that I think is a step in the right direction. It detects the chord progression, like Studio One, but allows the user to then draw notes over the detected harmonics. Surely the ultimate power would be to have that ability in the midi editor for analyzed audio items. Detect their chords and send to a chord track as well as seeing their note harmonics (somewhat like melodyne'a blobs) watermarked in the background. Maybe, using future ARA features will allow for such. Actually, MPL made a script that is somewhat relative. Having something along the aforementioned lines integrated in the midi editor along would be perfect.