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Nice! Couple of minor (haha) issues:

* The label "Rising octave" on the octave-up button doesn't make sense. Maybe you meant "Higher octave", assuming the "Lower" in the "Lower octave" button is the adjective form of "lower". If "Lower" is acting as a verb, however, then "Raise octave" would be consistent, but I don't think it sounds very natural. "Octave up" and "Octave down" might be more natural based on my recollection of music software and hardware I've used.

* As another poster noted, the (FM?) synthesizer is clipping badly when it plays chords. It's noticeable on basic 3-note triads, but it's much worse on chords with many extension tones, like a C13.

Thanks for sharing.

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Thanks for the advice! I totally agree with it. "Octave up" and "Octave down" also sound more natural to me.

And nice catch! Yes, the synthesizer does have some issue in browsers other than Chrome. I'm working on that.

Thanks again! I really appreciate it!

Really good stuff!

If I can give another suggestion: I think it would be much more useful for beginners to see the common alias of the chord in the main table (maybe below the name that already exists?).

(This is wrong, see the reply below:) For example, a beginner may see "G7" in the wild and not know it's a G minor 7 (and not a G major 7). They'd have to click the chords and search the alias list. If "G7" was written below "G minor 7", it would make things much easier.

Also, I think it would look better if the names in the main table were a bit more consistent. For exmaple, you have "G major ninth" but "Gmaj13". I think it would be better to have them as "Gmaj9"/"Gmaj13" or "G major ninth"/"G major thirteenth".

Nit: G7 denotes a G dominant 7 (i.e. natural 3rd, flat 7th), not a G minor 7. G minor 7 (flat 3rd, flat 7th) is abbreviated Gm7 or G-7. (In my experience, the "Gm7" form is common in "official" printed guitar & piano songbooks, while G-7 is common in jazz lead sheets and fakebooks.)

Right, total brain fart on my part! (And I actually had never seen the "G-7" notation)

Still, I think it would be much more useful to consistently have the chord abbreviations in the main table.

I still stumble over the "-7" version sometimes. I grew up on "Gm7" :)

Example from Google image search: https://www.musikalessons.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/0... . At least this one uses maj7 for major 7, rather than M7 or △7 :)

Maybe you could solve the clipping by putting a hard limiter in the signal path after the synth.

Yup on safari mobile it is just a bunch of clicks.

Sure thing! BTW I am using Chrome on Windows 10.

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