3/10/2023 0 Comments Improv chord scale generatorI’m guessing that even for a musician who knows their theory it might be an intersting plugin. I’ve got ‘busker level’ ability on guitar and bass, so I’m not a complete chancer (!), but the speed of work with Scaler is very useful. I take your point 100%, I’ve often thought basic keyboard ability would be extremely helpful. ![]() Then finalize it with an auto-mastering suite, and see if anyone can tell whether it's a box cake or from scratch. Maybe put vocal snippets or other weird samples to make it 'yours': for this project, you'll use that AI that organizes your samples for you (yes that's a real thing) to narrow down some options from which you'll choose. Then use a groove template or humanizing AI and conditional triggers to keep it interesting, and for sounds use genre specific pre-processed sample packs. I'm also all in favor of hedonism, so I say get a Genos and a Kordbot, for that hardware warmth, but really just gorge on every melody, beat and harmony generator you can find ITB to get the basic elements of a track into the DAW. In alot of good electronic music though, harmony is ancillary, and in that usage the AI isn't really writing the heart of the track, just providing ideas that might make it more interesting, which I'm all in favor of. The only reason I don't use chord progression choosers is because I'm good at that part, and riffs and intervallic interplay is the most fun part and the heart of a traditional 'song'. Also if there's a preset where most of the work's done for me, I'm not gonna be like, nope that's cheating I have to start from scratch. On a continuous-pitch surface, where I could select from any of ALL the notes between the keys, even my own mother would say, go ahead and cheat and use the keys please. ![]() I cheat by using keys, pretuned in equal temperament. Also, that seems to be one of the prevalent goals in life: to be able to get service or anything by selecting off a menu of desirable options, always if possible But it's still not as convenient or quick or confident as selecting from a list of presumably pro-programmed options. At least with musical harmony, you can try and err many times very quickly (though it DOES add up if you don't have much music time), without amassing a huge pile of inedible food. My problem with trial and error, regarding cooking, is that you can't 'un-spice' or unmix food, so it becomes very expensive and time consuming. I'm a lousy cook, but I select off a menu like a champ. I don't write my own reverb algorithms either - should i?! I use tools that help me get the job done. If you have jazz session musician level music theory then good for you. In fact if anything you might use it to get you away from what you normally do. More useful than me playing 200 chords that don't fit at all. It's very helpful for me to have a plugin generate for example 12 chords (plus loads more variations) that 'fit' together, that i can then quickly play, throw into the arrangement and modify further if required. Anyone that has spent any time fiddling on synths (as surely even the most patronising people on this thread have at some point! ) will know that 'surprise' is all part of the fun, and one thing leads to another. I'd think it would be better to memorize some common progressions by rote and then trial-and-error some variations on them, especially compared to that "jazzy" but utterly inexpressive example posted earlier, but it really depends on the artist's intention.The point I was trying to make by copying and pasting that chord progression (E maj9 / Amaj7/ F#min11 / C#7#9 / F# Maj add9 / B maj9 / D Maj7) was not to show they were amazing chords, but to show that for someone of my limited theory it is very very helpful to be able to listen to a lot of chords that 'fit' together and use my ears and taste (musical taste!) to use at speed into a track/song. ![]() Most modern popular music has boring/trivial harmonic content anyway. In those genres the focus is more on melody, rhythm, lyrics, etc. There are lots of genres where the musicians stick with stereotyped chord changes (a lot of blues, punk, etc.), and plenty of genres where there's often essentially no chord progression at all. I don't really see the problem here, though.
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