# Keyboard and MIDI Effects

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### **Overview**

Current’s keyboard area brings together essential voicing controls, pitch modulation, and scale-based music tools all integrated into a performance-ready interface. On the left, you’ll find powerful creative tools like the **Arpeggiator** and **Chord Generator**, which can be reordered to shape how notes and harmonies are generated. On the right, key and scale settings ensure everything stays in tune with your project.

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### Key Functions

* **Keyboard Scale & Root Selection**\
  Define the root note and scale to keep all generated notes in key. The Arpeggiator and Chord Generator both follow this setting, making it easy to lock in harmonically.
* **Voicing Controls**\
  Adjust global pitch, voice count, glide, and legato behavior for expressive and playable patches.
* **Mod & Pitch Wheel Settings**\
  Customize mod wheel depth, pitch bend range, and performance responsiveness directly from the panel.

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### Arpeggiator

* **Melodic & Rhythmic Patterns**\
  Choose from note modes, rhythmic styles, swing, and skip probabilities to generate dynamic sequences.
* **Step Controls**\
  Customize how patterns evolve over time with transposition shifts, alternate steps, offsets, and one-shot behavior.
* **Rate & Sync**\
  Set speed in BPM or milliseconds and fine-tune groove with swing and exponential shaping.

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### Chord Generator

* **Chord Sets & Scale Matching**\
  Each chord set includes seven chords that snap to the selected scale, with drag-and-drop reordering and editing.
* **Chord Type & Voicing**\
  Build from triads or suspended chords and apply inversions or advanced voicings for richer textures.
* **Creative Controls**\
  Add/remove intervals, adjust strum timing, and use smart randomization to spark new ideas quickly.

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### Good to Know

* The **Arp** and **Chord** tabs can be reordered by dragging their labels enabling arpeggiated chords or chorded arps.
* **Scale Lock** ensures scale settings stay consistent when switching presets.
* Learn more:

 [Keyboard & Scales](/current-manual/keyboard-and-midi-effects/keyboard-and-scales.md) | [Arpeggiator ](/current-manual/keyboard-and-midi-effects/arpeggiator.md)| [Chord Generator](/current-manual/keyboard-and-midi-effects/chord-generator.md)


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