Creating your own is also quite easy: select the lowest trigger note by clicking just above its key in the on-screen keyboard, click the Learn button and start playing chords. Its versatile arpeggiator (bottom) can process Cthulhu chords or real-time input.Cthulhu comes with many preset banks and you can get more from ADSR Sounds ( /synth/cthulhu-presets). Screen 2: Cthulhu maps eight-note chords across the keyboard. You can then delete the rest of the learned chords using the Remove sub menu of the Menu drop-down. The button with the eye icon above the trigger-note display lets you select chords you want to preserve. (Locked pitches play with each incoming MIDI note, not just those assigned to chords.) The chord name in the thought bubble is Cthulhu's best guess at the current chord. The Lock icon above each note display lets you lock that chord voice to the indicated pitch. The pitches and velocities of the current chord are displayed and can be edited in eight large readouts, and the chord's trigger note is shown to the left of the Velocity readouts.
Each chord can have eight notes with individual velocities. This is especially useful with the arpeggiator. The Note Latch button to the right of the speaker icon sustains the most recent chord until a new chord (or an empty slot) is triggered. This is also how you record Cthulhu's MIDI output. To play an external instrument, turn the speaker off and set the target instrument track's input to Cthulhu. The Speaker icon (top-left) toggles Cthulhu's internal instrument. It is a chord machine followed by a programmable arpeggiator, and you can use either module by itself. Next up is Cthulhu from Xfer Records (Screen 2). You might also insert Live's Scale effect after Chord Transposer to keep things in key. Playing the lowest note of the chord triggers it at its original pitch. The Chord Memorizer Pack also includes the Chord Transposer device, which transposes a single chord across the entire MIDI note range. Add an empty chain to the Rack and use the Rack's Key Zones to separate the two chains. But to avoid passing chord triggers, leave Thru off and enclose Chord Memorizer in a MIDI Effects Rack. When you want to play chords on one section of the keyboard while playing melodies on another section, you can click Chord Memorizer's Thru button to pass all incoming MIDI notes. To avoid a lot of mouse clicking, map the Record and Store buttons to MIDI controllers such as footswitches.Ĭhord Memorizer chords can have as many notes as you like and you can enter them singly or in clusters. You then click the Store button and play the desired trigger note or click it on the lower on-screen keyboard. You click the Record button and then play a chord or click its notes on the upper of two on-screen keyboards. The simplest, no-frills plug-in for that is Max For Cats Chord Memorizer (Screen 1 above). Unlike Live's Chord effect, the trigger notes typically have no relation to the chords they trigger - they simply let you set up sections of your MIDI keyboard to play chords. The first job of any chord machine is to let you trigger chords by playing single MIDI notes. The 'Chord Machine Plug-ins' box lists nine powerful, modestly priced options.
Fortunately, there are a variety of third-party devices for memorising and generating chords. But for any more than a few chords this process is both limited and a bit tedious. For more than one chord voicing, you can combine several of these in a MIDI Effect Rack, separate them by note range, and augment them with other Live MIDI effects such as Scale and Arpeggiator. The in-house solution is to use Live's Chord MIDI effect, which lets you dial in as many as six intervals at which notes are added to an incoming MIDI note. This month we'll look at several ways to generate chords in Live. We explore the wealth of third-party chord generators available for Live.
Chord Transposer assigns a single chord to all notes and works well with Live's Scale effect. Screen 1: Chord Memorizer assigns chords (yellow) to single notes (green).
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