The PIANO is 285 years old! Another MUSICAL INSTRUMENT comes onto the scene! (UNITED STATES PATENT #5,440,071) issued 8/8/95 The CHORDBOARD has been adapted through software to work with your existing equipment, resulting in lower cost and greater functionality. With four keyboards stacked as shown in the video, the CHORDBOARD can be set up to work with your existing MIDI setup, and you will be able to play fantastic custom performances based on your personal musical style. All the patented musical functionality is had in this current embodiment of the CHORDBOARD. Watch the videos, and see if you don't agree that the CHORDBOARD will take your musical performance up a notch. Singing while playing a sophisticated accompaniment. Adding strings and keyboards to your band. Learning theory of music and how it all works and fits together. The CHORDBOARD brings it all into focus, and you will understand your music better. If you know the chord progressions, you can jam right away. Learn which notes to play, although you can hardly make a mistake, learn which notes to play so that you can get just the "right" notes for you. Its what we all do when we play chords on any instrument. We select the notes that we like. Same with CHORDBOARD. You select the notes: the power chord notes on the lower five keys, or the variety of notes left in the remaining eight keys on top. Check out the videos. If you are interested in addiing this new musical instrument to your gig, write us. grant@chordboard.com

The Chordboard opens up the possibilities for musical composition and performance using the MIDI controller technology that has remained standard to musicians and composers all over the world. There are several banks of keys that play certain programmable chords on any MIDI channel. The possibilities are endless.
When a musician is serious about their production on creative projects, the Chordboard makes the musical composition process a snap... the musician can concentrate on the music and not on the technical performance (which can be stressful under pressure). The CX10 Chordboard MIDI keyboard controller takes the stress out of performance, and builds in a natural feel for pure music...the musician us able to focus on style and feel rather than technical accuracy. Yet the ability to create a MIDI musical performance on the MIDI controller keyboard can be even more sophisticated than that done on the typical counterpart: the piano keyboard. The CX10 allows for more complex chord bridging due to the CSB panel described on the pages of this site. MIDI channels can be assigned to any of the chord banks allowing for the use of this MIDI controller for a variety of purposes, including the playing of drum machine sound modules. For example, one chord bank can be assigned to play various tom tom drum sounds, and another can play snares and bass drums, etc. Other chord banks can play via MIDI different sound modules (such as piano and other keyboard sounds), and since the CX10 MIDI controller plays keys that sound similar to the notes generated by a guitar, even stringed instruments can be more accurately rendered using the Chordboard MIDI keyboard controller. This new musical instrument is the wave of the creative future. It will change the learning curve for musical composition down to virtually flat, and put a revolutionary tool into the hands of even the youngest of composers!