Hold chords indefinitely? (cc64)

[YourMusic.Pro]

Hi team,

I'd like to use Earmaster (fabulous program by the way!) as a random chord player in order to improvise over unknown chords and chord progressions. It would be nice if the program could hold chords indefinitely so that I can play with them. Maybe it can do this already?

Cheers,
Benji

[Quentin]

Thanks for your kind words. If you need EarMaster to output new chords in series automatically, that's definitely possible using the Customized Exercise mode of Chord Identification, and enabling the "Auto new question" option in the exercise's Exercise Options. But it's not possible for those chords to be held indefinitely, I'm afraid. You can set the "tempo" of the exercise to "very slow", which will result in the chord being played for 3 seconds.

[YourMusic.Pro]

Hey Quentin,

thx! I've now structured this a little different, I'm now taking one chord at a time, but it would help me if there was the possibility to set the "Auto Replay Question Delay" value to zero, in order to achieve a constant legato output with a string library for example.
That would actually need a software update, I'm afraid, wouldn't it?

Cheers,
Benji

[Quentin]

Yes, indeed, that would require an update. I will report your request to the dev team, but I'm not sure it can be added soon when it needs to compete with some central features that many users have been waiting for for a long time

You could aslo try to write the chords as you would like them to be played in a notation app like Musescore, Dorico, or Sibelius, and them import them into EarMaster as MusicXML in order to use them as a "sight-singing" exercise. This will enable you to write very long chords (one note per stave). It'll require a bit of work, but it might give you the result you want to achieve.

You can see how to proceed with MusicXML import in EarMaster here: https://www.earmaster.com/support/knowledge-base/tutorials.html#xml