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I'm looking for a way to turn existing chords in my sequence in DP (all 3 or 4 notes played at once) to strummed chords, the way a guitar would play them. I just need the individual notes nudged over a bit, for a quick strum, either up or down. I wish DP had something like the strum tool in FL studio or the Q Flam in Logic Pro X.

I've tried a few things in DP but can't get the result I want. The arpeggiator gives very unpredictable results -- I can't get it to produce just one arpeggio, and the notes cannot be overlapping. Groove quantizer really only works with single notes at a time (drum hits) and not chords. I've combed through the tools in DP and can't find anything that can do this.

Anyone have suggestions about how this might be done in DP? Or are there any MIDI strum plugins that anyone knows of?

Thanks.

good question! this sounds interesting...

This is something requested over 10 years ago, but I don't think it ever happened.

If you look here, viewtopic.php?f=1&t=34096 you'll see Shooshie posted a method, but I think the original video is gone. Maybe you can find enough there to repeat what he did. If involved clever use of the Search command followed by the Shift command: find all the top notes of chords, shift them 20 clicks, find the second to top note in each chord and shift those 15 clicks, etc.

The tricky part is the Search command. If you look at Shooshie's DP Tip Sheets, there are a number of posts on how to use Search to isolate just about anything you can imagine for subsequent processing with other MIDI commands.