Learn how VoicingFlow turns MIDI performances and live piano voicings into theory-aware visuals with chord symbols, chord-scales, guide tones, tensions, upper structures, Voicing Fit analysis, Voicing Explorer, Voicing Library, Acoustic Canvas, and 4K video export.
Yes. VoicingFlow is available now on the Mac App Store for macOS.
The current VoicingFlow 3 generation adds a full voicing-study workflow around Voicing Library, Voicing Explorer, Find Context, Free Play analysis, Acoustic Canvas, improved Voicing Fit, and video export with optional rendered audio.
Yes. VoicingFlow is free to download and free to try.
Free exports include a watermark. VoicingFlow Pro removes the watermark, unlocks unlimited Voicing Explorer searches, and enables Pro visual options including the White Background creator theme.
Available upgrade options may include monthly access, lifetime access, or non-renewing access periods inside the app.
VoicingFlow is a theory-aware MIDI visualizer, voicing analyzer, voicing explorer, and video-rendering app for macOS.
It helps piano teachers, jazz educators, composers, arrangers, and tutorial creators show what the notes mean: chord symbols, chord-scales, guide tones, tensions, avoid tensions, upper structures, cadence motion, contextual Voicing Fit analysis, Acoustic Canvas visuals, and 4K video output.
VoicingFlow Pro is the in-app upgrade for creators who want to use VoicingFlow without the free-export watermark and with the full search workflow unlocked.
Pro removes the VoicingFlow watermark from the main app preview and exported videos, unlocks unlimited Voicing Explorer searches, and enables Pro creator options such as the White Background theme.
Yes. You can use videos exported from VoicingFlow in your own commercial content, including YouTube videos, online courses, paid tutorials, memberships, and educational products.
If you use the free version, exported videos include a watermark. To remove the watermark, upgrade to VoicingFlow Pro inside the app.
The Voicing Library is a collection-based study area for curated jazz piano voicings.
You can browse, preview, study, and analyze voicings in context instead of only searching abstract possibilities. It is designed for practical voicing study, style exploration, and lesson preparation.
Voicing Explorer starts with a chord context and helps you discover playable voicings for that harmony.
You can define practical left-hand and right-hand ranges so the results stay useful at the piano. This makes it easier to search for voicings that are theoretically valid and physically playable.
Find Context works in the opposite direction from Voicing Explorer.
You play or load a voicing, and VoicingFlow suggests chord contexts where that voicing can function. This helps you discover how the same collection of notes can become chord tones, tensions, altered colors, suspended colors, or upper structures depending on the harmonic setting.
Free Play mode lets you analyze voicings live without preparing a MIDI file first.
Play a voicing, choose or provide harmonic context, and inspect note labels, Voicing Fit, register behavior, acoustic behavior, and harmonic function directly inside the app.
Voicing Fit analyzes how well the current voicing works over a harmonic context.
It looks at chord tones, guide tones, tensions, avoid tensions, register behavior, acoustic density, and overall harmonic usefulness. The result is shown as a rating such as Risky, Usable, Strong, or Excellent.
Acoustic Canvas visualizes notes and partials so students can see how a voicing contributes to the harmonic color.
It is useful for explaining resonance, register, chord tones, tensions, and why a voicing can sound fuller than the visible keys alone suggest.
Yes. VoicingFlow can export tutorial videos with rendered audio included.
You can also export silent videos if you prefer to add final piano audio, narration, mixing, or mastering later in your video editor.
The Voicing Fit Report explains why a voicing receives its rating.
It shows contextual note function, harmonic positives and negatives, acoustic profile, register issues, and final score. It is designed to help educators explain not only which notes are present, but why those notes do or do not work over the selected chord context.
No. Voicing Balance and Voicing Fit measure different things.
Voicing Balance describes intrinsic properties of the voicing itself, such as spacing, register spread, density, and note distribution. It does not depend on the chord context.
Voicing Fit is context-dependent. The same voicing may be Excellent over one chord, Strong over another, and Risky over a different harmonic context.
No. Voicing Fit depends on harmonic context.
You can provide the context, choose the context, or use Find Context to discover possible contexts for a voicing. This keeps the result musically intentional instead of relying on generic chord guessing.
No. VoicingFlow does not automatically guess the full harmonic context from a MIDI file.
This is intentional. In jazz, reharmonization, upper structures, modal sounds, and advanced voicings, the same notes can often be explained in more than one way. VoicingFlow lets the educator define the musical meaning instead of relying on generic chord guessing.
No. You can use Free Play mode to analyze voicings live without preparing a MIDI file.
For tutorial-video production, however, the common workflow is to record a MIDI performance, add harmonic context, preview the theory display, and export the visualization for your video editor.
A MIDI keyboard is strongly recommended.
It is the fastest and most musical way to play voicings, enter harmonic reference chords, test contexts, and use Free Play analysis. Some workflows can start from existing MIDI files, but VoicingFlow is designed around musical input from the keyboard.
No. When entering harmonic context, you do not need to play the complete voicing.
Use a clear root-position triad or seventh chord as the harmonic reference. VoicingFlow then analyzes the performed or loaded voicing against that context.
VoicingFlow can display animated piano keyboard visualization, chord symbols, chord-scales, guide tones, chord tones, tensions, avoid tensions, upper structures, Roman-numeral upper-structure labels, cadence arrows and brackets, and harmonic context across progressions.
With Acoustic Canvas, it can also create a more resonance-focused visual layer that shows notes and partials for a different kind of theory-aware tutorial video.
Guide tones are the essential tones that define the chord quality and voice-leading function. In many seventh chords, these are the 3rd and 7th. In sus chords, the suspended 4th may function as the structural guide tone.
Tensions are color tones such as 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, altered tensions, and other extensions. VoicingFlow labels these visually so students can see how each note functions inside the chord.
Avoid tensions are notes that can create unstable or stylistically problematic clashes against the chord context, depending on the harmony and register.
VoicingFlow can label avoid tensions so the analysis shows not only attractive color tones, but also notes that may need preparation, resolution, register adjustment, or a different harmonic explanation.
Upper structures are recognizable chord shapes built above a base harmony.
For example, a major triad may appear above a seventh chord to create a specific color. VoicingFlow can detect and display these structures, making it easier to explain advanced jazz voicings visually.
Yes. VoicingFlow displays the chord-scale associated with the current harmonic context.
This is useful when connecting voicings, tensions, improvisation, and harmonic function. For example, a dominant chord may show Mixolydian, Lydian dominant, altered, or another appropriate chord-scale depending on the context.
Yes. After you provide the harmonic context, VoicingFlow can analyze how chords connect.
For example, if you enter Cø7 to F7 to B♭maj7, the app can understand the progression and display cadence arrows or brackets automatically.
VoicingFlow is designed to show common harmonic movements such as II–V–I progressions, minor II–V–I progressions, backdoor progressions, tritone substitutions, deceptive resolutions, and other functional chord connections.
For a complete piano tutorial workflow, you typically need your lesson narration, a video of the piano performance, and a MIDI recording of that same piano performance.
VoicingFlow can render the visual layer and can now include rendered audio in the export. You can also use your own final audio from a DAW, sampler, or virtual instrument if you prefer.
VoicingFlow exports the theory-aware visual layer, with optional rendered audio.
For a finished YouTube or course video, you will usually combine that export with your piano video, narration, camera footage, titles, and final mix in a video editor such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, or DaVinci Resolve.
Yes. Export the VoicingFlow visualization, then import it into your video editor of choice and combine it with your hand-camera footage, narration, titles, final piano audio, and lesson content.
Some VoicingFlow layouts leave space at the bottom of the frame so you can place your real piano footage there in your video editor.
This lets you align the real keyboard footage with the animated keyboard visualization and create a polished piano tutorial layout.
VoicingFlow exports high-resolution video suitable for professional tutorial production, including 4K video output.
Yes. VoicingFlow includes a White Background creator theme as a Pro visual option.
This is useful when you want a cleaner, brighter tutorial look, or when your final video layout works better with a light background instead of the default dark visual style.
Yes. You can use the exported visualization by itself, especially for theory explanations, analysis videos, MIDI demonstrations, Acoustic Canvas videos, or course materials.
For performance-based piano tutorials, the strongest workflow is usually to combine it with real piano footage, narration, and high-quality piano audio.
You can go back and correct the harmonic context.
Use the navigation controls to advance or return to a previous musical moment, then re-enter the context if needed.
Continue without entering a new chord.
VoicingFlow will keep using the previous harmonic context until you provide a new one.
An Enhanced MIDI file is the original MIDI performance with the harmonic context saved inside it.
This lets you preserve the analysis work you added in VoicingFlow and reopen or reuse it later.
No. Saving the Enhanced MIDI file is optional.
You can save it if you want to keep the harmonic analysis embedded in the file, or skip it if you only need the current export.
No. VoicingFlow is not designed as a MIDI editor or performance-correction tool.
It analyzes the MIDI notes against the harmonic context you provide. Passing notes, embellishments, and occasional wrong notes can still be shown in context, but the app does not automatically rewrite or correct the performance.
No, but it is especially powerful for jazz and advanced harmony.
Because it understands chord symbols, chord-scales, tensions, upper structures, voicing fit, and cadential function, it is ideal for jazz piano, reharmonization, standards, film harmony, gospel-influenced harmony, and modern keyboard voicings.
Yes, especially if you want to explain harmony, cadences, voice leading, register, resonance, or chord function from a MIDI performance.
The app’s strongest current language is jazz and chord-symbol-based theory, so it is most natural for chord-based educational content.
No. VoicingFlow creates the theory-aware visual layer and can optionally include rendered audio.
You still use a video editor to assemble the final tutorial with narration, camera footage, titles, final audio mix, and any additional graphics.
Yes. You can render audio directly from VoicingFlow when that fits your workflow, or export the visual layer and use your own piano sound from a DAW, sampler, virtual instrument, or plug-in.
For professional course production, many creators still prefer to mix the final piano audio and narration in a dedicated editor or DAW.
VoicingFlow is currently designed for macOS.
Additional platforms may be considered in the future depending on demand.
The most important step is having a clear lesson plan.
VoicingFlow works best when you already know what you want to teach: the progression, the harmonic concept, the voicings, the chord-scales, the acoustic behavior, or the cadence you want students to understand.
Shape VoicingFlow is the Patreon development and feedback space for future VoicingFlow updates.
Arranger’s Circle members can suggest voicing-library collections, study workflows, feature ideas, pain points, and improvements for future versions. Suggestions are reviewed and considered, but they are not guaranteed to be implemented. Final product, design, and roadmap decisions remain with mDecks Music.
As a thank-you, active Arranger’s Circle members at the time of each major VoicingFlow update release receive one month of watermark-free VoicingFlow access.
No. Arranger’s Circle members help shape the discussion by suggesting workflows, problems, voicing collections, and feature ideas.
Member feedback helps guide priorities, but it does not guarantee implementation and does not transfer ownership of the roadmap. Final development decisions remain with mDecks Music.
VoicingFlow helps you show not only which notes were played, but what those notes mean.
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