STAC Software 

MAC version 2.1

(Intel processor)

PC version 2.1

(Vista or Win 7)

How the Chordboard STAC is played, detailed examples of musical options

easily on the Chordboard STAC. Each White Note is an individual note. All of the white keys are mapped to harmonically correct notes within each chord.  This is Harmonic Quantizing, which when played live lets you focus on your rhythm and timing, on your chord progressions, and being more musically spontaneous and focused.

Changing Key Signature spontaneously on the fly is easy on the STAC, and starts a musical adventure.

Changing GENRE on the fly allows switching to complex chord voicings like JAZZPhat, 5ths and

the inverted 9ths and 11ths.  The STAC only listens to the white keys. There are no black keys played on the STAC. and that’s the magic. That’s the Harmonic Quantizing.  

Black keys are voiced in the chords however. Watch the red notes on the keyboard in video, and black keys as well as white keys are voiced, depending on key, depending on chord voicings

like 5ths, 7ths, and 9ths, etc. 

When it is desirable to play a melody scale, the STAC can be instantly switched to a normal piano keyboard mode by pressing the top keyboard’s right-most key.  Any one of the four keyboards then plays normally until the right key on the 2nd keyboard is pressed to change it back.

 
Chordboard LLC was there. 
Commercial NAMM member
2011Text Box: MAC STAC Features Enhanced The STAC on the MAC has several new and expanded features in version 2.  Now it is possible to: Text Box: -Switch between 7 different GENRE styles of chords on the fly using MIDI keyboard keys. -Record, save, play, and load MIDI files and STAC performances using MIDI keyboard keys. -Switch to normal keyboard mode and back to STAC at touch of one key on MIDI keyboards. -Send MIDI performances to other STAC users to share session data. -Load STAC MIDI files into your DAW for conversion to sheet music and/or further refinement and editing. Text Box: This newest MAC version is user friendly on an order of magnitude compared to most software that requires device driver installations and extensive configuration.  No additional software installations other than STAC are necessary to get things running. Plug the USB keyboards in, and launch the software. Nothing to download. It is that easy. Text Box: STAC is coming to iPAD! will let you try before you buy. Text Box: CHORDBOARD STAC Symphonic, The Future is Now. The Chordboard STAC is at the leading edge of the music industry, with its short learning curve and access to complex chord structures, combined in unique and original ways… the sound is new, the inspiration is new. Recent music icon Nick Littlemore* Musical Director of Cirque du Soleil and PNAU, as well as other famous professionals, have written in about their experience with the Chordboard STAC. They have said the same thing: “...wrote 20 new songs in a week! ...This has changed my life.” Text Box: The Chordboad STAC is a Musical Instrument for the Composition Arsenal. Every studio should have a STAC.  The STAC is a MIDI controller, a new sound, a musical instrument, and an inspiration to song writers and producers.  The STAC is super playable, most anyone can play decent  sounding chords on any keyboard or module using the STAC interface.  The STAC has a very short learning curve. Text Box: There are millions of interesting and inspiring chord voicings, including symphonic sound. The STAC interface is made up of 7 different chords, for every possible key signature.  The diagram shows the Nashville Notation.  Each chord value can instantly change depending on which key signature is selected from the top keyboard. Text Box: For example, in the Key of C, the 1 chord is the C major chord, and the ii chord is D minor, and so on up the scale.  The STAC lets you choose key signature changes on the fly, and GENRE changes on the fly, allowing you to play a vast variety of chord voicings for each chord. The 7 chord banks on the top illustration correspond to the 7 chords shown on the STAC software screen. Note velocity is animated, as well as piano notes played thru MIDI. The STAC symphonic remarkably shortens the learning curve for playing keyboards, and puts powerful symphonic tools into the hands of musicians at all levels of talent.  Production is faster.  Songs are written faster.  Musical ideas come faster. Text Box: To contact Chordboard LLC:

*platinum record producer (PNAU, Empire of Sun) and current Musical Director at Cirque du Soleil working with SIR ELTON JOHN

Large symphonic chord voicings can be played

Text Box: NEW MUSIC created on the Chordboard STAC Symphonic… Some Song demos, each created in about an hour.