🌸 ChordBloom Help
🎯 The Petal Wheel
Tap center chord — play the current root chord
Tap a petal — play that chord & make it the new center
Long-press a petal — override its voicing level (single→11th)
Rotate ring — drag the outer ring to rotate petals
+/− — add or remove petals (3–12)
⚙ Top Bar
Key selector — change root key
Chord group dropdown — switch between Diatonic, Jazz, Modal, Blues, Chromatic Mediants, Andalusian, Borrowed, Chord Planing, Secondary Dominants
↩ / ↪ — undo / redo navigation
🔓 — lock root so petals don't re-center on tap
🎛 Voicing & Phrasing
Synth — choose instrument: Warm, Bright, Pad, Keys, Pluck, Organ + Sonic Pi synths (Prophet, Blade, Dark Amb, Piano, Bell)
Voice mode — Close, Open, or Spread voicing
Octave ▼▲ — shift pitch up/down
Polyphony ▼▲ — global note count: Single(1) → Dyad(2) → Triad → 7th → 9th → 11th
Phrasing — Block, Strum, or Arpeggio
FX — Reverb & Delay with adjustable mix/time/feedback
🎵 AI Improvisation
Toggle to generate melodies over your chord changes using ML models
MusicRNN — recurrent neural network melody generation
MelodyVAE — variational autoencoder melodies
Temperature — controls randomness (low = predictable, high = wild)
⏺ Record & Play
Record — captures chord taps with timing
Play/Stop — replay your recorded progression
Loop — toggle looping playback
Speed — bipolar control from −5× (reverse) to +5×
🔧 Bottom Toolbar
👁 — show/hide chord names on petals
📋 — copy current chords to clipboard
🔊 — toggle sound on/off
🎛 — voicing & phrasing panel
🎵 — AI improvisation panel
🎹 — MIDI settings
⏺ — record & play panel
❓ — this help screen
ChordBloom — tap, explore, create 🌸
