I just had a play with this. I must say, my favourite feature so far is the chord suggestion wheel (dunno if this interface has a name). A lot of the time I feel like when experimenting with chord progressions or in the beginning stages of writing a song I miss out on interesting chord combinations simply because when messing around on the piano I forget to use or try certain chords or variations. It's really nice to have this selection there (although including extended chords would be awesome!)
Also, I noticed you build it with JUCE. I'd be highly interested in a series or even very short writeup about how you made the ui and it's various components with JUCE. I haven't built anything nontrivial with it yet but audio (and as an extension, UI programming) is very interesting to me.
OH this is one of my favourite things (chord explorers), Ableton doesn't have one but Cubase does. I am surprised it isn't more of a feature elsewhere, as they solve the problem of 'I have to learn to play these chords to effectively compose with them'.
You don't have to be an expert player to use your ears to write harmonically interesting things as a result. I can't wait to get home and try this!
I had no idea cubase has this. I sometimes use a plugin called Cthulu (link below) to achieve a similar outcome, but the workflow is nowhere near as nice.
Also, I noticed you build it with JUCE. I'd be highly interested in a series or even very short writeup about how you made the ui and it's various components with JUCE. I haven't built anything nontrivial with it yet but audio (and as an extension, UI programming) is very interesting to me.