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Practicing with MIDI Files

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Tools for practice and theory: live chord names, the Chord Prompter, both Explorers, hands, the metronome and playing along.

How Orfeo Reads Chords

Last Updated: October 1, 2026

How Orfeo recognises chords, the Auto, Harmony and Follow tracking modes, and Safe or Progressive chord reading.

Live Chord Display

Last Updated: October 1, 2026

The chord name above the keyboard, how it follows the music, and how to study any chord with a right-click.

Chord Prompter

Last Updated: October 1, 2026

A teleprompter for chords: the last chords, the current one and the next two, always in view.

Lock-A-Chord

Last Updated: October 1, 2026

Shift+click keys or right-click a chord in the song to lock it, name it, play it and step through its inversions.

Chord Transcription to PDF

Last Updated: October 1, 2026

Turn any library song into a printable PDF chord chart with keyboard diagrams and a bar-by-bar grid (beta).

Chords Explorer

Last Updated: October 15, 2026

Browse and hear any chord, cycle inversions, search by name or notes, and play progressions in nine styles.

Scales Explorer

Last Updated: October 15, 2026

An interactive Circle of Fifths: pick a key and one of twelve scales, hear its chords and play any of 61 progressions in that key.

Starmap

Last Updated: October 15, 2026

See every chord as a glowing star on a ring of the 12 notes, gliding from chord to chord, in semitone or Circle of Fifths order.

Left and Right Hands

Last Updated: October 4, 2026

Colour each piano note by the hand that plays it, split the hands into tracks and correct the automatic guess.

Connect a MIDI Keyboard

Last Updated: October 22, 2026

Plug in a USB or MIDI keyboard: keys light as you play, you hear your notes and your chords are named.

Metronome

Last Updated: October 3, 2026

A click that follows every tempo change in the song and stays in step wherever you start.

Count-in

Last Updated: October 22, 2026

Hear one to four bars of clicks before the music starts, at the song's real tempo, so you come in on time.

Step Through

Last Updated: October 22, 2026

Walk through a song one note or chord at a time with the arrow keys, at your own pace.