Scale Lock · Chord Maker · MIDI

Make music in key, even before you know theory.

Choose a key and scale in Spider, then play or program melodies with in-key note guidance. Build chord shapes and progressions as real MIDI notes you can inspect, change and arrange. The tools help you start; the musical decision stays yours.

Spider melodic sequencer with chord and scale-aware performance controls
Scale-aware entry, chords and sequencing in one Studio workflow.

Stay in the selected scale

Scale Lock guides new note entry across Spider’s melodic tools. Newly sequenced notes can snap into key; on the live keyboard, off-scale keys are blocked while the lock is active. Turn it off when you want the full chromatic range.

Apply a scale to a MIDI clip you already made

Open a MIDI clip in the Clip Editor, choose the project key and scale, then press Apply to move existing notes to the nearest scale tones. The change is explicit and editable; merely enabling Scale Lock does not silently rewrite your recording.

Build chords as editable music

Chord tools can expand a note into a voicing or write a chord progression into the clip. These become MIDI events you can edit rather than a sound baked into an audio file. You can still adjust the notes, rhythm, velocity and sound afterward.

Let the idea grow

Play with Spider's synths or route a MIDS track to external hardware where Web MIDI is supported. If you want a different harmonic direction or groove, select the MIDI clip and ask Spider AI to draft a variation for review before Apply.

Explore external MIDI sequencing with MIDS.