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Hi @D-One , apologies for the delayed response. Regarding your last point, the first two Tools were initially designed to serve as an inspirational kickstart, with the Playbox case significantly influencing some design decisions. In particular, the arrangement of chords and phrases follows a harmonic progression rather than strictly adhering to the harmonic grades of a scale. This provides ready-to-use content that can be useful in certain contexts but may lack synergy between the two modules as you correctly observed.

Recognizing that some users may want more control over this, we introduced an "Advanced" mode accessible through the settings. This mode offers a different experience, including a remote octave for phrase and chord selection via keyswitches, and extends the selected entries across the keyboard, enabling modal or chromatic performance. By selecting the same phrase and chord in each tool, the Advanced mode might enhance the affinity between the two modules.

Here is a video demonstrating a quick example of this functionality:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pmq6u6pwut4oa8kco4fmr/quick-advanced-mode-demo-short.mp4?rlkey=jnrxnw0c6x4n6xvah9qn7du0j&e=1&dl=0

Additionally, there's a list of phrases and chords that share the same mapping, identifiable by their matching names:

This is still an IF rather than a WHEN. Could you send me a PM (this thread is closed)?

I'd be interested to hear more about how you use those features.

Here you go! Using Kontakt 8 in Maschine