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About Hookpad
Hookpad from Hooktheory lets you jot down chord progressions and melodies and develop them into full songs. Melody notes and chords are colour-coded by scale degree and harmonic function, and a palette shows every chord that fits your key.
Aria, the built-in generative AI assistant, suggests chords, melodies or both to fit your project. You can play in with a MIDI keyboard, build around an uploaded audio track, arrange with over 500 instruments and browse the chords most used in hit songs.
Strengths
- Visual music theory with colour-coded chords and melodies
- Aria AI suggests chords and melodies in context
- MIDI keyboard input and audio track upload
- 500+ instruments for quick arrangements
Limitations
- Sketching tool rather than a full DAW
- Free and paid feature split is not detailed on the page
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to start writing, with paid features available.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Hooktheory
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application
- Best suited for
- Songwriters and students writing chord progressions and melodies with theory guidance
- Categories
- Learning tools, AI music
- Last verified
- Added
- Sources
Alternatives to Hookpad
Compare allSoftware that can replace Hookpad for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Scaler 3
A music theory workstation plugin that suggests chords, progressions and melodies for music producers.
Scaler 3 is a paid Windows and macOS plugin suggesting chords, progressions and melodies inside a DAW, with key and chord detection companion tools.
LANDR Composer
An AI plugin that generates chord progressions, melodies, basslines and arpeggios as MIDI for a DAW.
LANDR Composer is a paid plugin generating chords, melodies, basslines and arpeggios as MIDI with a piano roll, but needs DAW instruments to produce sound.
Magenta Studio
A free Ableton Live plugin that uses Magenta machine learning models to generate and transform MIDI clips.
Magenta Studio is a free Apache-2.0 plugin generating and transforming MIDI clips, but requires Ableton Live 10.1 Suite or later and lacks theory guidance.
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Klangio
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ACE Studio
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