I have also played around with "Essentials" a bit and I think it is quite limited.
There is no track or chord section within Tonalic itself as show in all the tutorials (at least I can't find it).
Very limited set of patterns only guitar.
I can put in a chord sequence in the DAW as usual and drag the pattern to the track. Only the guitar part will populate the track. That works fine the pattern adapts to the chords. Maybe I haven't found out all features yet, but I think to be of any practical use one probably needs one of the larger versions.
Unfortunately they are only on subscription.


BIAB 2026, Studio One 7 Pro, Song Master Pro, Win11 Home. i7-9700K CPU, 32GB, ESI MAYA44eX, ZOOM UAC-2, Guitar Pro 8, Transcribe, (EZKeys2, EZD3, SD3, EZBass, EZMix3)
Amateur: fiddle, guitar, vocal, beginner on bass.