Neat trick - thank's! - But you might want to warn people that if they are recording on an already recorded track, then everything else on that track is changed and you can't get it back, if you save the project. Sometimes even undo doesn't work.😱
Excellent point! It’s crucial that you don’t enable follow chord track on a track where the MIDI recording needs to be retained exactly as a recorded. I guess I’d recommend people either save a new version before hand or you might even be able to do this with track versions. Either way, you’re absolutely right that you want to be cautious about this…
Here's the ACTUAL Demystification: Your assumption that this feature (specifically the "voicings") would be about creating chords is the point of error. I feel with you, it's underdocumented without doubt and even the documentation writer didn't understand the feature. The doc insanely states that muted notes can occur and suggests a way to hide these - instead of explaining that the part must not be polyphonic. So what it actually does is not creating chords but harmony notes for a given melody - like for a background choir to sing. Yet it doesn't have to be vocals. What's important for this to work is that you have a monophonic melody in the first place. That's why it failed with the four C chords you tried. Once you have a melody and an already matching chord progression, then you duplicate the melody track 4 times and set it to SATB single voices, following the chord track. Once you switch the track to follow the voicings, it stores the original melody invisibly, because what it does from then on is to look at each original note and find a harmonic note within the scale that is in harmony with both, melody and current progression chord. "Adaptive Voicing" tries to better follow the melody by beeing less strict regarding the settings you make. You can also have all voices be created in a single track (polyphonic), but you still need have a monophonic melody on that track before switching on the voicings generation.
Neat trick - thank's! - But you might want to warn people that if they are recording on an already recorded track, then everything else on that track is changed and you can't get it back, if you save the project. Sometimes even undo doesn't work.😱
Excellent point! It’s crucial that you don’t enable follow chord track on a track where the MIDI recording needs to be retained exactly as a recorded. I guess I’d recommend people either save a new version before hand or you might even be able to do this with track versions. Either way, you’re absolutely right that you want to be cautious about this…
I saw you make the mistake of neglecting to set the bass track from the default of soprano and almost screamed at you lol
But thanks for this video!
I know, right :)
Here's the ACTUAL Demystification: Your assumption that this feature (specifically the "voicings") would be about creating chords is the point of error. I feel with you, it's underdocumented without doubt and even the documentation writer didn't understand the feature. The doc insanely states that muted notes can occur and suggests a way to hide these - instead of explaining that the part must not be polyphonic.
So what it actually does is not creating chords but harmony notes for a given melody - like for a background choir to sing. Yet it doesn't have to be vocals. What's important for this to work is that you have a monophonic melody in the first place. That's why it failed with the four C chords you tried. Once you have a melody and an already matching chord progression, then you duplicate the melody track 4 times and set it to SATB single voices, following the chord track. Once you switch the track to follow the voicings, it stores the original melody invisibly, because what it does from then on is to look at each original note and find a harmonic note within the scale that is in harmony with both, melody and current progression chord. "Adaptive Voicing" tries to better follow the melody by beeing less strict regarding the settings you make. You can also have all voices be created in a single track (polyphonic), but you still need have a monophonic melody on that track before switching on the voicings generation.
Thanks for these insights - I’m looking forward to revisiting this to refine a more effective workflow. I appreciate your explanation!