How to Play ANY Chord with a Single Key on MODX and Montage - and MORE!
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- This has been one of the most requested videos over the last few months. People with MODX and Montage synths want to know how they can get arranger-like functionality where complex chords can be played by playing only a single key. MODX and Montage do not have this type of functionality natively. You can get close with certain arpeggiator patterns, but you are limited in terms of the sounds and specific notes being played. In this video, I show you the simple way to have the MODX and Montage play complex, multitimbral chords with a single keypress!
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0:00 Intro
1:59 Starting a New Performance
2:22 Differences for Montage M
3:23 Programming Chord 1
6:50 Programming Chord 2
8:20 Programming Chord 3
9:38 Programming Chord 4
12:13 Filters & FX
13:47 Adding a Lead Part
15:01 The End Result
15:56 Download My Performance!
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Great tutorial. Thank you so much!
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Even after 56 years of practice on the piano I can't play chords as fast as I can play single notes (unless I don't have to change the fingering :). The sound of different chord structures and progressions played at inhuman speed is a very interesting sound, a sound that Beethoven could never had imagined, or if he did, would have realized not possible with one person at the piano. Technology has always been able to exceed the physical limitation of humanity, let's do some good with it.
It's a wonderful feature, the only keyboards I know that gives you that type of flexibility is korg's TRITON, KROME & KRONOS where you can literally add as much chords in one note as u can and I always imagine yamaha putting that feature in there keyboards, it would be an really awsome move.
Thank you for continuing to show us what we can do on the modx
Thanks Scott, very helpful. Could you at some point do a video where you control the montage m through midi in from the midi out of a different keyboard, i.e. a modx? The montage m midi in seems to be acting very different from other Yamaha midi in functionality!
Great info, thanks Scott ❤
For 3 years now I am using Montage.
All the functions and features I explored so far work well, however at the arpeggio part I am struggling.
There are 3 types of arpeggio: fixed , normal and original notes.
The fixed note function works well with the drums, but with any other instrument channel, like a bass or any other instrument which has chord patterns, all the three functions mentioned about is not accurate. If the chord changes are not 100% in time and on the first beat of the bar, than the notes from the pattern are shifted and come later.
However, in the user memory of the instrument, I found an arpeggio type, that works just like what I would like to do. For example, with MA_8Beat Slow_C arpeggio it does not matter on what beat I am changing the chords, all the instruments come smoothly in the right time from the arpeggio pattern, without any note shift and independent from the midi note length.
My question is, how could I create an arpeggio like MA_8Beat Slow_C on my instrument?
On the Yamaha Genos 2, the Super Articulation (e.g. Guitars and woodwind, brass instruments) comes on AUTOMATICALLY when play soft/hard, play a note 3 seconds after playing a previous one, puts in legato automatically when you go from a lower to higher octave etc. All these can be accomplished on the Montage M but manually (with buttons, pedals. knobs etc). Since I want to FOCUS on playing on stage and not pushing buttons, HOW (in the MONTAGE M) do I get the articulation to be triggered like the GENOS 2 - Automatically or using velocity, aftertouch, time, notes etc and so play and not have to press any Art1/2 buttons or ribbons or ...etc.
That's quite a clever way. It also shows how much work an arranger can do for you. This reminds me of the "Single finger" mode in Yamaha PSRs.
Cool.
I do like the Roland Phantom chord function .Except that the chord type interface is via the jog wheel .It would be better to assign with the pads .This does look involved and a bit complicated .I would like the function though because I use Cubase . Maybe get a NI Machine or similar and imput chords via the pads on those with the midi imput .
Hi Scott, are you using a Behringer? Maybe an idea to do a review on the mixer?
Yes, that's a Behringer X32. It's on my "to do" video list. :)
wonder if you can help me with a MIDI issue: I use a Yamaha Montage m8x and a Yamaha Genos.
I have them setup on midi out on Genos and midi in on m8x
On the m8x I have a performance with 8 parts, first part is a piano.
When I play the m8x, I want to play all 8 parts (no issue), but on the Genos, I want to play only part 1 from the m8x. However, when I play the Genos, I instead hear all 8 parts from Montage, despite Genos only transmitting on channel 1 and m8x receiving on channel 1.
Even if I change the overall midi channel (through utility midi I/o) to let’s say channel 9, and change nothing on Genos, I still hear all 8 parts…
How can I make the setting such that I only hear the part I want to hear, in this case part 1 only from m8x)?
I thought it would be possible to whatever channels I set to transmit from Genos, I would be able to set the corresponding receiving channels on m8x that I want to hear when playing through the midi connection?
Thank you so much for your help!
That's odd behavior - by default it should normally assign MIDI channels to the individual parts. What is the MIDI I/O channel set to for each of the parts? Does the Genos have the ability to transmit MIDI Omni mode, and if so, is it turned on?
Could you not just set 4 elements and have each one offset by say 4, 7 and 11 semitones so that every key plays a major 7?
You could, if you wanted every chord to be a Maj7 chord.
Thanks Scott for your MontageM explorations. It helps a lot of guys here to evaluate this beast.
But this time I have a doubt: are there a lot of people that want to play a keyboard that way? A key for a fixed chord?
It is much easier and productive to learn chords, I did when I was a kid and now I play them all.
I saw many midi controllers with this function marketed as "professional use". In my mind professional guys playing music know every chord.
Maybe I am wrong...
I agree with you! I just want to play the chords myself! I did get a lot of requests for this video, and I suppose when you look at the chords I set up, where they are multitimbral, with different sounds voicing different parts of the chord, there's no real practical way to do that playing live - at least not with one hand.
Constructive criticism:-
I would have re-recorded to get it in stereo … That’s the kind of thing that earns likes/subscribes - not begging …
If I was demonstrating the sound of a synth, I would have. In this case, I decided not to, as I was demonstrating a programming technique, not the overall sound.