Static chord

The static chord is a way of achieving a degree of pseudo-polypohony for those with no polyphonic control source is to use multiple oscillators tuned to different root notes to provide a static chord – for example, three oscillators tuned to the root, minor third and perfect fifth will produce a minor chord, but these pitch intervals will remain fixed regardless of cv input, the chord only being transposed as the pitch cv is altered.

Patch for static chord. Green is a gate signal. Orange is a contoured cv such as an envelope, slewed or random cv. Cyan is the amplitude/VCA block. Magenta is the filter block. Brick Red is the pitch signal and pitch block. Purple is the waveshaping block. Blue is audio.