Chorda

Sale price$199.99
Color: Black

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Chorda by Artiphon is a powerful, all-in-one musical instrument that functions as both a standalone synthesizer and an expressive MIDI controller. Drawing inspiration from guitar, piano, and drums, it offers touch-sensitive pads, a strummable smart bridge, and intuitive gestural controls for dynamic, expressive play. Chorda lets you layer sounds, create loops, and seamlessly integrate with your music software and hardware instruments, giving you full creative control of your next production.

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Go beyond Limiting Knobs, Strings, Keys & Buttons

Chorda takes you beyond traditional knobs, keys, strings, and buttons found in other instruments and controllers. With Chorda you can experience limitless and immersive musical expression from the moment you open the box, offering a more natural and intuitive way to bring your musical ideas to life.

How Does It Make Sound?

Chorda brings your music to life with its onboard synthesizer and pre-loaded sounds, letting you start jamming as soon as you power it on. Its MIDI capabilities control your favorite software, while a 5-hour rechargeable battery, built-in speaker, headphone jack, USB-C, and Bluetooth ensure you can create wherever inspiration strikes.

Immediate Music That Sounds Good

Make music instantly with Chorda’s onboard sounds. Sketch your ideas by looping and layering the instrument parts to create full songs right on the device without connecting a single cable.

Explore over 300+ additional sounds with the Artiphon Connect app or record and upload your own audio samples to make your music uniquely yours.

Innovative App Control

Control DAWs like Ableton, GarageBand, and Logic Pro with latency-free Bluetooth MIDI. Chorda's unique Gestures and Smart Modes give you seamless control over software instruments, ensuring your creativity flows uninterrupted.

When connected to your DAW, Chorda becomes a producer’s Swiss Army knife, mapping its four parts to different tracks and letting you toggle between them with a single button push, streamlining the way you create music.

Expression with Light-Touch Precision

Chorda’s patent-pending light-touch surface makes musical expression simple and responsive. Like a smartphone screen, it captures even the lightest touch, turning each contact into expressive musical notes. Allowing fluid expression, just like painting music on a canvas.

Play Entire Chords With a Single Touch

Chorda's powerful Chord Mode lets you play complex, beautiful chords with a single pad — no tricky finger positioning, extensive practice, or music theory knowledge needed.

Whether composing with the built-in synthesizer or in your DAW, adding rich violin or guitar chords to your song has never been easier.

Feel The Music, As You Modulate Sound

Dive into the future of musical creation with Chorda. It blends the tactile response of traditional instruments with digital technology, using gestures like Tilt, Radiate, and Vibrate to modulate sound.

Seamlessly integrate with your DAW and further customize gestures to control effects and envelopes such as filter cutoff, note velocity, and brightness, letting your stage presence add extra texture to your sound.

Customization At Its Finest

Further customize your Chorda experience with features like snap-to-grid and groove quantization. Set keys and scales to avoid wrong notes, and adjust settings such as pressure sensitivity and effects like reverb and delay to make the instrument your own.

Expression That Adapts To Your Vibe

Whether you play it flat like a piano, strum it like a guitar, hold it on your shoulder like a violin, or switch between right and left-handed, Chorda is ready to match your creative flow by adapting to your playing style as you play with no extra setup needed.

Chorda by Artiphon multiple playing positions

Your Ideas Come To Life

Sketch out your tracks with Chorda’s built-in looper or ignite creativity with its versatile arpeggiator. Chorda’s arpeggiator not only creates melodic patterns but also arpeggiated beats in drum mode, perfectly syncing with your tempo.

Save your songs in the app, share them with friends, or export them to add the finishing touches in your DAW for a smooth transition from on-the-go to your studio.

Finally, A Portable Controller

Chorda’s built-in speaker, headphone jack, and rechargeable battery are ideal for today’s digital creators.

Its compact size fits easily into almost any backpack, making it the perfect companion for your next adventure.

Byhaze playing Chorda by Artiphon the portable instrument outside in NYC.

See It In Action!

Watch popular music gear youtubers Patrick Breen and Taetro use Chorda to create a full beat and song using Logic Pro and Ableton.

Chorda Up close

Onboard speaker

About as loud as an acoustic guitar.

Bridge

As easy as swiping on your phone, Chorda's bridge makes it easy to strum any sound and tap any note.

Fingerboard

12 pressure- and velocity- sensitive pads that react to tapping and sliding.

Tech Specs

What's in the box?

  • Chorda
  • USB Cable
  • Quickstart Guide

Dimensions

  • 440 mm (W) x 59mm (D) x 29mm (H)

I/O

  • USB-C (USB 2.0 Class Compliant Audio/MIDI)
  • 3.5mm (1/8") TRS Analog Headphone Stereo Out

Features

  • Multi-colored LEDs
  • 12 capacitive sense/ touch-sensitive pads
  • Built-in accelerometer
  • Built-in Gyroscope
  • Embedded Haptic feedback
  • Smart-strum bridge with 6 triggers
  • (A) menu button
  • Power + volume button
  • Built-in battery (up to 5 hours of battery life)
  • MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) Support

Bluetooth

  • Bluetooth LE MIDI (MIDI only)
    Note: Windows 10 does not currently support Bluetooth LE MIDI

Speaker System

  • 3W built-in active speaker system

Compatibility

  • iOS 11 and newer
  • Android 9 and newer
  • macOS 10.12 and newer
  • Windows 10 (64 bit)

Portable Accessories For Every Adventure

Perfect for musicians on the go, these portable accessories ensure your Chorda experience is as enjoyable as it should be no matter where you are. They provide the freedom to create music anywhere while protecting your instrument and offering comfort and style.

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