Review: Superchord by LMDSP

We recently became aware of Superchord from independent developers LMDSP. This plug in does something very specific, but it does it very well, and with enough parameters to make it a very useful effect for a variety of purposes. Intrigued? then read on… 

Chord of the Rings

Superchord essentially emulates a number of ‘strings’ ringing in sympathy with whatever audio you put through it. In much the same way that you might hear your guitar strings vibrating in a room when you make a loud noise. You can control the pitch of the individual strings as either fixed notes or notes send via MIDI and you can tweak the sound of the strings in a variety of ways. There’s also a few extra effects that can be applied to the output, such as filters and saturation.

The result is something like a vocoder but not really like a vocoder. It’s hard to explain so let us show you instead. Here’s a video of us mucking about with it.

Tech Specs

Audio specifications

64-bit double precision internal processing

Stereo/mono operation

Sampling rate up to 384kHz

Supported formats

Avid AAX 

Apple AU 

Steinberg VST2 

Steinberg VST3 

More details in the FAQ.

Supported platforms

 Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10

 Apple Mac OSX 10.9 to 10.12 (macOS Sierra)

OS versions not listed above are not officially supported, however the plug-in may still run.

System requirements

Intel compatible processor with SSE2 instruction set

2GB RAM

OpenGL 3.2 capable graphics card

1440 × 900px or 1280 × 960px or higher resolution monitor

Host compatibility

Pro Tools 10 and above

VST, VST3 or AU compatible host