Add chord progressions highlights.

[ca3games]

Enhancement Summary

Basically add some yellow ghost notes among several bars on the piano roll to indicate a chord, allowing you to see whatever chord progression you want in the measure.

Justification

It would be very helpful to be able to highlight common chord progressions in the piano roll.

Mockup

Just right click to highlight a chord and the measure or bar will become yellow, usign the same scale hightlight code.
Maybe add some basic button with a message asking how long it should the chord progression should be and what chords it should contain, maybe a simple integer next to the chord to indicate how long the chord should be.

[Veratil]

Currently if you right click on the piano keys and you have a chord selected in the chord combobox, you can mark a chord highlight.

[musikBear]

It would be very helpful to be able to highlight common chord progressions in the piano roll.

yak...

• oh no 'Common' progression -What are they?
  An idea that is flawed on almost every level

• That would lead to boooring projects
• You remove the intuitive aspect of composing
• ...Can be done already..... -and even though a hate the idea, i will tell you how, because you would appearently like it..
  Just
• open an empty project
• Enter a chord progeression you would like in your library
• go to File| save as midi
• Name and save the progression logically in a library-folder

Whenever you want a specific progression, just load it with

• File| import and find the progression you want in your library

I still do not like it....

[LostRobotMusic]

@ca3games Can you explain why this is needed if #4575 exists?

[ca3games]

@ca3games Can you explain why this is needed if #4575 exists?

Sure, my idea is not super needed if you can simply drop a backdrop MIDI with some chord progression as guide.

Maybe I could change my request to being able to change the color of some ghost MIDI channel to another color, maybe yellow, so I can drop a MIDI as guide like musikBear suggested.

[Veratil]

@ca3games For some reason when I read this first and replied I wasn't thinking straight... so you want something similar to how Captain Chords works (the header area of it)?

[ca3games]

@ca3games For some reason when I read this first and replied I wasn't thinking straight... so you want something similar to how Captain Chords works (the header area of it)?

Dunno how captain chords does it, but I meant more like those FL studio youtube tutorial when they lay out the chord progression before starting a song.
It's more like a ruler guideline helper kind of thing.

[LostRobotMusic]

Maybe I could change my request to being able to change the color of some ghost MIDI channel to another color, maybe yellow, so I can drop a MIDI as guide like musikBear suggested.

In that case, it should be put into a separate issue and this should be closed as a duplicate.

[Veratil]

@ca3games For some reason when I read this first and replied I wasn't thinking straight... so you want something similar to how Captain Chords works (the header area of it)?

Dunno how captain chords does it, but I meant more like those FL studio youtube tutorial when they lay out the chord progression before starting a song.
It's more like a ruler guideline helper kind of thing.

Can you share a video that has it?

[ca3games]

@ca3games For some reason when I read this first and replied I wasn't thinking straight... so you want something similar to how Captain Chords works (the header area of it)?

Dunno how captain chords does it, but I meant more like those FL studio youtube tutorial when they lay out the chord progression before starting a song.
It's more like a ruler guideline helper kind of thing.

Can you share a video that has it?

Dunno, look up any FL chord progression song tutorial.
They always need to layout the chord progression as a guideline.

[musikBear]

@ca3games wrote

look up any FL chord progression song tutorial. They always need to layout the chord progression as a guideline.

Yes! Because FL-studio does not have Scales, as we have in LMMS.

I believe(?) its a FL-enterprice feature, but a lot of FL'ers draw the scale, before they start to insert notes, maybe thats what you mean. A chord-progression library can be made already, as i outlined

[zonkmachine]

@ca3games Basically this is implemented already. You can select a chord or scale and highlight the corresponding notes in the Piano Roll. Watch @musikBear's post above.

1. Select a scale or chord in the menu.
2. Right click the keyboard to the left and choose to highlight a scale or chord. Done...

I'm closing this feature request.