Tuple

Description

TUPLE — CHORD DEVICE FOR ABLETON

A harmonic composition tool for fast and musical chord selection, exploration and performance — directly inside Ableton Live. Drop tuple.amxd onto a MIDI track and it shows every valid chord for your key on one color-coded grid: 7 diatonic degrees plus a dedicated Borrowed column. No hidden pages, no standalone app.

WHAT IT DOES

– Chord grid — every chord in your key, always visible, color-coded by degree (spectrum, function, tension, fifths, quality)

– 15 voicings — Classic, Piano, Open, Spread, House, Prog, Rootless A/B, Drop 2/3, Jazz, Nu-House, Trap, Trance, Funk

– Voice leading — Anchor and Flow modes, with common-tone detection

– Borrowed chords — secondary dominants and modal interchange, one click away

– Expression — Strum (up to ±250 ms, curve & velocity ramp) and Humanize

– Live scale sync — imports Live's key and scale automatically on load

– Push 2 & MIDI — play the grid on Push pads; map 8 controls to any controller, saved with your set

WHO IT'S FOR

Producers who want to move faster through harmony, and anyone curious about how progressions fit together — theory or no theory.

STATUS

Active beta, fully open source (MIT). Feedback shapes what comes next.

Requirements: Ableton Live 11+ · Max for Live · Push 2 (optional, recommended)

Free · open source

EDIT: Fixed a macOS-only bug where the device couldn't load its UI (blank window / ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND). If you downloaded earlier and hit that, just re-download from https://tuple.live — it's sorted now. Thanks to everyone who reported it 🙏