New Pedal Steel Chord Finder in Development, would appreciate feedback

[Rodrigo de la Mora]

Hello everyone,
I hope you're all doing well. I'm a long-time member of this Forum and have a deep respect for the incredible amount of experience and knowledge shared here.
As a player myself, I've been working on a personal project for the past few months—a desktop application designed to help with one of the more complex parts of our instrument: finding chord voicings for specific tunings.
The app is called the Pedal Steel Chord Finder. It allows you to create your own custom copedents in a detailed editor and then instantly find any chord you need across the fretboard. It also has features for exporting your favorite voicings to a PDF for practice or creating printable charts for your students.
The app is now fully functional, and before I think about a public release, I would be incredibly grateful to get some feedback from a few experienced players. I'm looking for insights on whether the workflow makes sense and if the features are genuinely useful.
I would like to invite anyone who is interested to a brief, one-on-one demo session over Zoom. It would be very informal, take no more than 15 minutes of your time, and would just be a chance for me to walk you through the app and hear your thoughts.
If you might be interested, please leave a comment below or send me a private message, and we can arrange a time that works for you.
Thank you so much for your time and consideration.
Here I leave a couple of Screen shots of the app.
All the best,
Rodrigo

[Dale Rottacker]

Quite an endeavor Rodrigo ... The nerd/geek in me has always liked the idea of a program for PSG, where using your personal copedent, could ask the program "where can I find, Cmaj7#11 or b9". Pretty sure something capable of that could be programed into Excel or Numbers on a Mac. I've just never had the where with all to work our how to put in the rules and parameters to accomplish that. Maybe thats what you've done here. What I see looks interesting.

[Rodrigo de la Mora]

Quite an endeavor Rodrigo ... The nerd/geek in me has always liked the idea of a program for PSG, where using your personal copedent, could ask the program "where can I find, Cmaj7#11 or b9". Pretty sure something capable of that could be programed into Excel or Numbers on a Mac. I've just never had the where with all to work our how to put in the rules and parameters to accomplish that. Maybe thats what you've done here. What I see looks interesting.

Thank you for your reply, yes it's been some long nights making it work, precisely with parameters and rules I have come and go many times, I am now integrating a "Chord Decipher", like a reverse chord finder, user tells the app, "I am in 3rd fret, and pressing these pedals and knee levers, playing these strings, now tell me what chord is it?" and the app throws many results, depending on complexity of chord, copedent, and what note of the given note set is considered the root as well as helping with some other info, like what scale is the chord coming from, I have a list of more than 75 chord types, and 24 scales and modes, from triads to 13th chords, altered chords, sus chords and so on, planing to maybe include quartal harmony chords. It has the ability to filter out intervals to accommodate for different copedents, and set of strings and other parameters, so like if the bass player is playing the root, then maybe me as a PS player can omit it and better play a b9 or a 7th for example....I am trying to make it as complete and accessible as possible, so from beginners to advanced players, and from high harmony knowledgeable players to players who only want to explore in a clean and clear environment can get something good out of it and help them in their own PSG learning journey.Yes, for me it's been quite a journey as well creating it, but I am confident it will be a great studying and exploring as well as learning tool!!

If you would like to test it let me know, I'd be happy to show it to you,

Kind regards
R.

[George Madrid]

Very cool!

[Tim Donaghy]

I’d love a demo! Curious to see it both as a new player and as someone who works in UX/development.

I’m out of town this week but drop me a message (I’ll do the same).

[Rodrigo de la Mora]

I’d love a demo! Curious to see it both as a new player and as someone who works in UX/development.

I’m out of town this week but drop me a message (I’ll do the same).

It has already been released, you can see all about it and download a trial in www.psgcompass.com

[Tim Donaghy]

Oh hah! Didn't see your original posting date. Will check it out.

[Tom McNary]

WOW! I purchased this on 2/12/2026 and I can't go a day without using it. I started out playing rock and roll guitar and by the time I was 24(now 74) I was playing jazz, mostly bass. I liked the sound of steel guitar and was hooked when I heard Maurice Anderson. I can now find jazz chords with ease. I can use my copedants which is customizable with this app. I play a lot of chord melody on guitar and translating that to steel is easy using this app. I found a Bb13b9 with a few clicks sitting right in front of me. . I haven't explored the rest of the features of this app yet, but I will. Thank You Rodrigo de la Mora.

[Pete Martin]

Wish someone would do this for 6, 7, 8 and 10 string lap steel where you could enter your own tunings (hint, hint).

[Tom McNary]

Hey Pete. Just for the heck of it I plugged in the six string dobro tuning GBDGBD. You can use 3 to at least 12 strings with this app. You need three tones for a triad. No pedals and no knee levers. Given that this is only three tones the result is limited . However I think if you put in a slanted bar (forward or backward) this would open up more possibilities. For instance a forward bar slant across strings 5 4 3 at frets 1 2 3 respectively gives me a partial C7 no fifth on my dobro. I believe this forward slant could be entered into this app as a pedal(raise string 4 up 1 and string 3 up 2). The more strings, forward or backward slants, the more possibilities. I don't know of any four note slants but I guess anything is possible. Just sitting here spitballing. Just love steelin!

[Rodrigo de la Mora]

Wish someone would do this for 6, 7, 8 and 10 string lap steel where you could enter your own tunings (hint, hint).

Hello Pete, with this app you can do from 4 to up to 20 strings, and ANY tuning you desire, specifying note and octave for each string, and you could use the custom mechanisms to emulate bar slants

[Pete Martin]

Great, I’ll give it a try.