HOLY....I watched literally until 0:35 and had to rewind. I never used the + to add anything else on a new track than some VST. Those presets are extremely helpful! xD Thank you for making my life better in such a short time hahaha
Man...1 hour later and I figured out that the Multi-Note is such a powerful tool when I combine it with Sylenth1 or Avengers presets and Arps.... I've never learned to much in such a short video - and I am at 0:56 now
You are doing so many great things recently. Thank you, it's all very inspiring and thought provoking. Here is my thought after watching this video: Many of these techniques lead to a lot of parallel voicings, which have their appeal, but are not always what you want. I think a cool follow-on here would be to record the notes generated by these techniques onto a separate track, and then to adjust the voicings (by inversion, or spreading/condensing the notes for more or less open voicings). Any progression can create many different feelings with different voicings. A more challenging open question is how to generate nice inverted voicings automatically. Would love to know your thoughts on doing this (!) Thanks again, stay rad.
yes, good point! automating inversions is a bit harder. but i havent found an "easy, drop in" solution yet. it all involves some more complex chaining. but its not impossible. I also recorded this video multiple times, in one version i used an "octave wrapper" preset by x.iso which kind of does something similar. maybe i do a part2 and show some more ideas :)
@@PolarityMusic Thanks for the reply! Indeed, wrapping too-high or too-low notes would be an interesting first approximation. Great thought. And whether or not it can be done automatically, I think demonstrating that the note outputs can be recorded (esp. w/ so many great new note effects in 4.x) would be valuable. Looking forward to future videos! Keep it up.
Great video as usual!! I have some music theory plugins but using Bitwig integrated devices often is more natural as handling them is easier (saving, editing, etc)
one of the greatest tutorials ever about chords. there is one question, the pitch-12 chords penultimate tutorial. you say it creates minor chords on the black keys only. but when i look on the multi note in which you entered the steps of 0, +16, +7, -24 and +11, for me this means the following: it is a major 7th chord plus bass. because : 0 = root, +16 = major 3rd one oct higher, +7 = regular 7th, -24 = bass and then the +11 .. = that is a major 7th, isn't it? because 0-4-7-11 = 4 steps = major. otherwise the minor 7th would be 0-4-7-10. so what you do in my opinion is a maj/min7th instead of a true minor 7th, because the minor 7th is 0-3-7-10. i am sure you understand what i mean and i just want to be sure i got you with what you doing in this tutorial?
Try having a quantize at the end of the chain and trigger it on/off with a steps modulator for when you want that note to hit. Idk if it’ll work but just off the top of my head I think that’s how you could do it
HOLY....I watched literally until 0:35 and had to rewind. I never used the + to add anything else on a new track than some VST. Those presets are extremely helpful! xD Thank you for making my life better in such a short time hahaha
Man...1 hour later and I figured out that the Multi-Note is such a powerful tool when I combine it with Sylenth1 or Avengers presets and Arps.... I've never learned to much in such a short video - and I am at 0:56 now
You are doing so many great things recently. Thank you, it's all very inspiring and thought provoking. Here is my thought after watching this video: Many of these techniques lead to a lot of parallel voicings, which have their appeal, but are not always what you want. I think a cool follow-on here would be to record the notes generated by these techniques onto a separate track, and then to adjust the voicings (by inversion, or spreading/condensing the notes for more or less open voicings). Any progression can create many different feelings with different voicings.
A more challenging open question is how to generate nice inverted voicings automatically. Would love to know your thoughts on doing this (!)
Thanks again, stay rad.
yes, good point! automating inversions is a bit harder. but i havent found an "easy, drop in" solution yet. it all involves some more complex chaining. but its not impossible. I also recorded this video multiple times, in one version i used an "octave wrapper" preset by x.iso which kind of does something similar. maybe i do a part2 and show some more ideas :)
@@PolarityMusic Thanks for the reply! Indeed, wrapping too-high or too-low notes would be an interesting first approximation. Great thought. And whether or not it can be done automatically, I think demonstrating that the note outputs can be recorded (esp. w/ so many great new note effects in 4.x) would be valuable. Looking forward to future videos! Keep it up.
noted and thanks!
Wow 😳so many new ideas 🥰🥳🚀thanks Polarity 🙏
Packed! 15 minutes of video, and I'll spend hours of testing (and digesting 😉) all the infos... Thanks!
Great video as usual!! I have some music theory plugins but using Bitwig integrated devices often is more natural as handling them is easier (saving, editing, etc)
Apart from the drums I'm getting serious 80's commercial vibes from those first chords.
Super cool tutorial!
Thanks Polarity!
Thanks 🙏
one of the greatest tutorials ever about chords. there is one question, the pitch-12 chords penultimate tutorial. you say it creates minor chords on the black keys only. but when i look on the multi note in which you entered the steps of 0, +16, +7, -24 and +11, for me this means the following: it is a major 7th chord plus bass. because : 0 = root, +16 = major 3rd one oct higher, +7 = regular 7th, -24 = bass and then the +11 .. = that is a major 7th, isn't it? because 0-4-7-11 = 4 steps = major. otherwise the minor 7th would be 0-4-7-10. so what you do in my opinion is a maj/min7th instead of a true minor 7th, because the minor 7th is 0-3-7-10. i am sure you understand what i mean and i just want to be sure i got you with what you doing in this tutorial?
nice!
When using the Strum, is there a way to adjust track delay, so that last note of strum lands on the beat?
Try having a quantize at the end of the chain and trigger it on/off with a steps modulator for when you want that note to hit. Idk if it’ll work but just off the top of my head I think that’s how you could do it
You might have to mess with the phase setting on the step mod in order for it to be active at the right beat you want as well
@@Zenonbuster thanks for reply. I've only had Bitwig for 2 weeks, I'm used to Cubase workflow.
@@benhughes2355 why the switch?
@@Zenonbuster Not switch. Just another toy to play with 😉
Great tutorial, did you get your new haircut in the end?
Why Bitwig just have no chord painter in piano roll?
because using 3 clicks to select a random chord shape from a list of 100 random shapes that you can draw yourself with 4 clicks makes not really sense
@@PolarityMusic But for people who are more musical, this is exactly what we want. We don't want to program 5th and 7th notes all on one midi note.