@@Crowbar11115 even though i'm all for free stuff, to be fair, putting them together requires time and effort which one has the right to ask to be compensated for
Always glad to see more videos that not only provide useful resources, but also lead people away from the companies that are trying to prey on naive new songwriters, composers and producers with talk about "pro level chords" and all that nonsense.
If you need more than just few simple chords, it is probably more convenient to use "Chords, Scales & Arpeggios actions and menu set" by Aeolian1. You must be in MIDI editor; however, you can insert even arpeggio for complex chord in less than one second.
bring back the pod keennyyyy, the bashing unison deserves can only be given on the water cooler discussion place :D appreciate pointing people towards the free midi chord pack
i think it's easier to make any chord you could possibly want if you know a bit of music theory. it's faster, too. basically all you need to know is triads and intervals. 1) major triad = root+major 3rd + minor 3rd 2) minor triad= root+minor 3rd+major 3rd 3) intervals (like 2nds, 6ths, etc.) add flavor. learn how to build them (for example, minor sixth is 8 semitones), and learn their flavor. it's very handy.
That's easy to say from our perspective. We already know it and probably learnt it all quite a while ago. There are people who find music theory, even fundamental stuff like this, very difficult to grasp. I don't think these MIDI packs are a good replacement for music theory knowledge, but they'd be great teaching tools. If you use this chord pack enough you'll start to understand how chords work.
This is choosing to be a narrow minded person. What is easy for you could not be easy for others. Do we need to graduated in human being science to be able to understand this? I think we should learn to see others different from us and accept them as they are. Kenny thinks about all the week the strong the worst even... And I really appreciate it...
@@mielushe2lheureux939 you don't seem to find that i'm not gatekeeping, but, instead, advising young musicians learning a bit of theory to become better. what i said above is easy stuff kids learn in one day and you're already whining. go make some music, don't upset me. it's easy to just equalize everyone so you don't have to criticize yourself, be better than that. we as musicians should push ourselves to make better music.
You're just the right guy for me, just love that kind of music, even I mix some other material than this genre. I already learned a lot on the captain plugins, and this is just a great extra addition. Thank you so much Kenny. Time is my only enemy at this point.
Great Kenny. In the old days I used to write chords on bits of paper and pull them out of a bag and play them in whatever order they came out to see if it inspired anything. This is a more sophisticated modern version of the same thing... You can do the same thing with band names song or album titles. Just read a random line out of a page on a book and see what turns up.. Did a covers album with my daughter once... Used a medical dictionary and came up with the album title Fractured In Any Case... We thought it sounded pretty cool... 🤣😅😉
Another awesomely wonderful tutorial. This seems to have more flexibility and ease of workflow than Chord Gun (which is awesome anyway). And, I am ALWAYS amazed at how versatile and customizable REAPER is! But it takes a genius like you to explain it! Thank you Kenny, I'd be so lost without your videos!
There is a saying that if you allow a greedy guy sit down, he would ask to lie down. Now I see that I can add any chord just by dragging and dropping. I wish they were all Visually available within from the DAW. Not from a file dialog where I search them through folders and files. But this would be more than sufficient for what I needed. Thank you again for this bombastic tutorial.
Yes! I can really use this. I have always been skeptical about those ads for chord packs. This just seems like a very sensible solution for me, since I mainly record acoustic guitars and vocal and then add some bass and percussion, if needed. So this really seems like all I would need if I wanted to add some strings or piano. Thank you!
Yeah, definitely don't pay for a midi chord pack. That garbage you see advertised is more or less a scam. This is what a midi chord pack should cost. Free.
Hi Kenny. Question: could you maybe do a video tutorial for Reapack? Apologies if you already have, but I can't find one. Many thanks for all your great work.
Amazing resource, thanks for sharing. I've been looking for a good way to thicken some of my chord sauces and this really helped! I've been devouring your videos the past month and a half, so grateful for all you do.
Another useful vid.. Thanks Kenny! Searching your videos, but that's quite a few. Do you have any videos specifically for pulling in drum samples from ik multimedia Neil Peart or Hugh Paddington drum sets? I know that's pretty specific thanks as always Kenny appreciate you
Very cool process, Kenny! Is there a way to apply a midi chord to something like the Spitfire BBC Discovery VST? (Unless I’m missing a setting) Each instrument is on a separate track. But if I wanted to create a string quartet or something that has a different instrument play a note in a chord, is there a way to send a note to a track? I guess that would probably just get really messy fairly quickly. Maybe you know a trick or a VST that helps with that. Thanks for the walkthrough!
Dear Kenny. I just want to thank you from all of my heart for your videos. Because of you I started to follow my passion in music creation. I am still making a baby steps and still have so much to learn. After your lessons I manage to create my first song from simple chord progressions and published it on my channel. Of course it's basic and some may find it cheasy, but it's a beginning of a journey.
I do remember that there is the ChordGun plugin in Reaper. What for should we need chord packs, having the ChordGun? Progressions may be useful though (but not for me, for instance, because for me the point of writing songs is in creating custom chord progressions that fit your melodies)
I like to use Chord Gun too. Kenny brought up the subject of midi packs as there are.so many to pay for now and to show they can be got for.free. They can also help with writers block, or if you are stuck in a rut with your writing.
I love this but I'm learning theory so I can't use it arghhhhhhhh! Hard typing it in helps me learn. But I've saved this ready for when it's all in my head. Fantastic tutorial.
Near as I can tell, the contents of the progressions file is all contained in the chords file, just organized differently. So you only have to download the free-midi-chords-20211125 file to get all the progressions too. The difference being in "chords", the progressions are in sub-folders by key, whereas with "progressions" all keys are in the same folder. Arguably the key-sorted folders is easier to work with, so I don't see a need to download the progressions file at all.
Thanks for the video, as well as for your other great videos. But I have a question: why is there no orderly REAPER TRACK CHORD like in CUBASE? Thank you
Technically speaking, there are more advanced voicing for chords. I've never looked at these midi packs because I expected them to be the basic voicings of a beginner piano student. Also, depending on your needs and instrumentation being used, it will matter where these notes fall in the range of the instrument. That is, if you give crap. I'm just saying.
Agree, the only thing that might be more "pro level" is having a different choice of voicings. But it is easy to drag a given note up or down an octave to make any voicing you want. No need for understanding of complex music theory necessary to experiment with voicing like this.
Reminds me of the annoying commercials on u2oob for example the red head white guy music producer talking wigger style " chord packs? Nah I don't use chord packs "
From a guy who was knocking Plugin Boutique's Scaler2 a couple months ago, this seems pretty hypocritical. What happened to the "If these are the important tools for making music, you're not creating music. You're assembling it" mentality?
I had to watch through the Unison chord pack ad before coming here. A big scam, and you show how it can be done for free. I also like to use Scaler, a VST plugin, to help me find nice sounding chord progressions.
I downloaded the chord pack and mine are spaced out. Like there is a beat or two in between each chord. It doesn't play continuously like this video. I didn't do anything different from the video on downloading, is it just updated that way?
Yikes! We're going to put the Unison midi chord pack out of business!
Let's hope so! 😁
That Chord pack shouldn't even be a product
@@Crowbar11115 even though i'm all for free stuff, to be fair, putting them together requires time and effort which one has the right to ask to be compensated for
@@ARE_YOU_SICK_OF_YT_CENSORSHIP They don't. The dude at Unison did not "put anything together". He monetized already available files.
Unison sucked anyways 🙄
This channel helps to restore my often waning faith in humanity. Thanks yet again man.
Always glad to see more videos that not only provide useful resources, but also lead people away from the companies that are trying to prey on naive new songwriters, composers and producers with talk about "pro level chords" and all that nonsense.
Kenny, the amazing free producer tips provider. Thanks a lot.
There is no such thing as Pro Level Chords! well said!
I also wanted to say no "Cheat Codes" either.
If you need more than just few simple chords, it is probably more convenient to use "Chords, Scales & Arpeggios actions and menu set" by Aeolian1. You must be in MIDI editor; however, you can insert even arpeggio for complex chord in less than one second.
There's no way I'd know how to do anything besides press "Record" in Reaper if it weren't for this guy. Many thx! Greets from TX. KG rocks!
It's like Christmas has come again. Bless yer Kenny
Thanks Kenny for another great little tutorial - and thanks for user Idrolez for making the packs available to the community!
bring back the pod keennyyyy, the bashing unison deserves can only be given on the water cooler discussion place :D
appreciate pointing people towards the free midi chord pack
i think it's easier to make any chord you could possibly want if you know a bit of music theory. it's faster, too.
basically all you need to know is triads and intervals.
1) major triad = root+major 3rd + minor 3rd
2) minor triad= root+minor 3rd+major 3rd
3) intervals (like 2nds, 6ths, etc.) add flavor. learn how to build them (for example, minor sixth is 8 semitones), and learn their flavor. it's very handy.
That's easy to say from our perspective. We already know it and probably learnt it all quite a while ago. There are people who find music theory, even fundamental stuff like this, very difficult to grasp.
I don't think these MIDI packs are a good replacement for music theory knowledge, but they'd be great teaching tools. If you use this chord pack enough you'll start to understand how chords work.
@@SeanORaigh spot on, dude🤘
This is choosing to be a narrow minded person. What is easy for you could not be easy for others. Do we need to graduated in human being science to be able to understand this? I think we should learn to see others different from us and accept them as they are. Kenny thinks about all the week the strong the worst even... And I really appreciate it...
Circle of 5ths is awesome once it's explained for theory.
@@mielushe2lheureux939 you don't seem to find that i'm not gatekeeping, but, instead, advising young musicians learning a bit of theory to become better. what i said above is easy stuff kids learn in one day and you're already whining. go make some music, don't upset me. it's easy to just equalize everyone so you don't have to criticize yourself, be better than that. we as musicians should push ourselves to make better music.
OH MY WORD, I'M BLOWN AWAY... I feel like I've been sleeping on reaper for years now... Thank you for your work
Kenny, you're saint! Your efforts make such an immense contribution to music education. Thank you!
ur videos are getting SICK day by day...keep it up
Everytime I watched your videos, I always learned something!
You're just the right guy for me, just love that kind of music, even I mix some other material than this genre. I already learned a lot on the captain plugins, and this is just a great extra addition. Thank you so much Kenny. Time is my only enemy at this point.
Great Kenny. In the old days I used to write chords on bits of paper and pull them out of a bag and play them in whatever order they came out to see if it inspired anything.
This is a more sophisticated modern version of the same thing...
You can do the same thing with band names song or album titles. Just read a random line out of a page on a book and see what turns up..
Did a covers album with my daughter once... Used a medical dictionary and came up with the album title Fractured In Any Case...
We thought it sounded pretty cool... 🤣😅😉
Worked for Bowie and many others.
Another awesomely wonderful tutorial. This seems to have more flexibility and ease of workflow than Chord Gun (which is awesome anyway). And, I am ALWAYS amazed at how versatile and customizable REAPER is! But it takes a genius like you to explain it! Thank you Kenny, I'd be so lost without your videos!
It's cool that there is a focus on composition. One suggestion would be to demonstrate some voice leading, to minimize pitch movement.
Also I love how the track used for the examples was the opening for The Office
Yes, thanks once again Kenny...just what I needed!
There is a saying that if you allow a greedy guy sit down, he would ask to lie down. Now I see that I can add any chord just by dragging and dropping. I wish they were all Visually available within from the DAW. Not from a file dialog where I search them through folders and files. But this would be more than sufficient for what I needed.
Thank you again for this bombastic tutorial.
The day I found Kenny was the day I began to understand Reaper.
Thanks for everything, Kenny!
Another gem, thanks Kenny.
You did it again Kenny, Thanks. And I love Go Go at the end there.
Another brilliant video lesson ..... useful free material. Thanks Kenny!!!
Fantastic stuff from Kenny as usual. Must admit though, I had a different image in my head of what Mr Gioia looked like!
Keep them coming kenny! I LOVE Reaper!
Thanks for this cord pack. I have others but the way this is organized is cool.
Yes! I can really use this. I have always been skeptical about those ads for chord packs. This just seems like a very sensible solution for me, since I mainly record acoustic guitars and vocal and then add some bass and percussion, if needed. So this really seems like all I would need if I wanted to add some strings or piano. Thank you!
Yeah, definitely don't pay for a midi chord pack. That garbage you see advertised is more or less a scam. This is what a midi chord pack should cost. Free.
I love the irony of having a midi chord pack add play as this video ends!!
The theme song is slapping now! 🔥
Excellent video once again Kenny. Thank you.
Thank you so much Kenny for teaching us!
These are is some righteous tips! Thanks Kenny. You da man!
Every time....i look for something and youve already done a video on it!
Excellent thanks, possibly easier than the Chord Gun, look forward to trying these tomorrow
This was the best video ever screaming to be followed by the mighty obnoxious ad "so there's this company called Unison.."... :)
I prefer not to use names. LOL
@@REAPERMania I'll gladly do that for you 🤭
As always - Bravo !!! Thanks!👏👏👏
Cheers! Your videos have taught me loads about Reaper.
Hi, this is Kenny Gioia, broadcasting direct from my glowing recording studio in heaven
as always, excellent info Kenny, thx a lot for this!!! only the best!!!
Great job Kenny! Too many people trying to sell "Pro level" chord packs and it's not on. Video was clear and concise as always. Thanks :)
Much appreciated as always Kenny
As always, an awesome tip Kenny. Thank you!!
0:32 what an effing legend
Hi Kenny. Question: could you maybe do a video tutorial for Reapack? Apologies if you already have, but I can't find one. Many thanks for all your great work.
Maybe
Amazing resource, thanks for sharing. I've been looking for a good way to thicken some of my chord sauces and this really helped! I've been devouring your videos the past month and a half, so grateful for all you do.
Great demo many thanks
I can see this being extremely useful when writer's block kicks in. Drop some chords in the VST of choice and start tinkering.
thank you for your work, I enjoyed watching each of your videos and learned a lot thanks to you.
Literally just got a Unison Midi Chord Pack ad on this video.
Another useful vid.. Thanks Kenny! Searching your videos, but that's quite a few. Do you have any videos specifically for pulling in drum samples from ik multimedia Neil Peart or Hugh Paddington drum sets? I know that's pretty specific thanks as always Kenny appreciate you
Nice, Kenny! Thank you!
Very cool process, Kenny!
Is there a way to apply a midi chord to something like the Spitfire BBC Discovery VST? (Unless I’m missing a setting) Each instrument is on a separate track. But if I wanted to create a string quartet or something that has a different instrument play a note in a chord, is there a way to send a note to a track?
I guess that would probably just get really messy fairly quickly. Maybe you know a trick or a VST that helps with that.
Thanks for the walkthrough!
As always, your ideas are genius 👌👍🌷
Thanks Kenny - great help!
Amazing .. another killer vid ... as I plan to start writing my own music this is a great helper ... well done Kenny :)
Awesome. Downloading now!
I"m not keen to midi chord packs and alike but that's definitely the right way to do it and distribute it.
Thank you Kenny 👏👏👏🙏
Thanks again, Kenny!
This response was written with pro-level words. Thanks for the great video 🙂
Really cool Kenny, thanks :)
Marvelous as usual
Dear Kenny. I just want to thank you from all of my heart for your videos. Because of you I started to follow my passion in music creation. I am still making a baby steps and still have so much to learn. After your lessons I manage to create my first song from simple chord progressions and published it on my channel. Of course it's basic and some may find it cheasy, but it's a beginning of a journey.
I do remember that there is the ChordGun plugin in Reaper. What for should we need chord packs, having the ChordGun? Progressions may be useful though (but not for me, for instance, because for me the point of writing songs is in creating custom chord progressions that fit your melodies)
that was my thought also
I like to use Chord Gun too. Kenny brought up the subject of midi packs as there are.so many to pay for now and to show they can be got for.free.
They can also help with writers block, or if you are stuck in a rut with your writing.
I love this but I'm learning theory so I can't use it arghhhhhhhh! Hard typing it in helps me learn. But I've saved this ready for when it's all in my head. Fantastic tutorial.
Thanks Kenny.
C̶l̶a̶p̶t̶o̶n̶ KENNY is GOD
awesome!!! THANK YOU
WOW! Thank you SOOOOO much for this!!!
That was a very graceful takedown of we-all-know-who :)
I have no idea what you're talking about. :)
Thanks KG!!! You RULEZ!!!
Near as I can tell, the contents of the progressions file is all contained in the chords file, just organized differently. So you only have to download the free-midi-chords-20211125 file to get all the progressions too. The difference being in "chords", the progressions are in sub-folders by key, whereas with "progressions" all keys are in the same folder. Arguably the key-sorted folders is easier to work with, so I don't see a need to download the progressions file at all.
Thank you, great episode.
Thanks for the video, as well as for your other great videos.
But I have a question: why is there no orderly REAPER TRACK CHORD like in CUBASE?
Thank you
Hi Kenny,
Thank you so much. Could you please do a tutorial on how to use Ripchord vst in reaper. 🙂🙂
Technically speaking, there are more advanced voicing for chords. I've never looked at these midi packs because I expected them to be the basic voicings of a beginner piano student. Also, depending on your needs and instrumentation being used, it will matter where these notes fall in the range of the instrument. That is, if you give crap. I'm just saying.
Agree, the only thing that might be more "pro level" is having a different choice of voicings. But it is easy to drag a given note up or down an octave to make any voicing you want. No need for understanding of complex music theory necessary to experiment with voicing like this.
Thnx Kenny 🎼😉
Many thanks Kenny.
Cool! You could make a deep house tutorial for us!
2:57 ♫♪ I read the news today oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade ♫♪ double time.
kenny your robin hood to us poor musicians. thanks bro
Awesome
Who else has gotten to the stage of clicking like, even before the video starts :)
Which designer did your "eminence grise" wardrobe? If we dress like you will we be as cool?
Reminds me of the annoying commercials on u2oob for example the red head white guy music producer talking wigger style " chord packs? Nah I don't use chord packs "
I'm sure you can guess which advertiser appeared in front of this video trying to sell me their Professional Midi Chord Pack... ugh.
I love this
From a guy who was knocking Plugin Boutique's Scaler2 a couple months ago, this seems pretty hypocritical. What happened to the "If these are the important tools for making music, you're not creating music. You're assembling it" mentality?
Amazing 🔥👏😎
how do you get that drum track to sound so awesome and huge
👍👍👏👏
this was huge gems though
Oh, like that 6 passing chord.
Me too. Was surprised when I found it. Because I don't really know music theory, I still try everything until I find something I love. Thanks
I had to watch through the Unison chord pack ad before coming here. A big scam, and you show how it can be done for free.
I also like to use Scaler, a VST plugin, to help me find nice sounding chord progressions.
Yeah. I'm getting that add as well. LOL
So cool
I downloaded the chord pack and mine are spaced out. Like there is a beat or two in between each chord. It doesn't play continuously like this video. I didn't do anything different from the video on downloading, is it just updated that way?
Do you find this workflow easier than working with chordgun?
Wish Reaper has some inbuilt chord progression or some script to do ..only in python chorder possible