Assigning chords to one key

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jamief
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Post by jamief » Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:41 am

Homebelly wrote:
Nick the Zombie wrote:I do this a lot by stacking audio clips of individual note hits that are tuned to various degrees of the scale I'm working in. I was nearly burnt at the virtual stake by a forum regular for mentioning this idea at Future Producers, but I stand by its usefulness.
So..
why not just play a chord in the first place? 8O
It gives you unique writing possibilties. If you seen it in action i,m sue u would agree.

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Post by Moody » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:10 pm

There are plenty of good reasons for both approaches; especially in software considered to be a Live Sequencing Instrument and it would seem obvious that if one can dial in a chord from a utility, they could just as equally play the chord. So, there is another reason why this would be useful to an AL user.
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Post by mbreeson » Thu May 13, 2021 9:41 pm

Baron von Case wrote:
Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:03 am
A musician doesn't need an automatic chord key.
I am a musician that can play every chord on the planet. Extremely well in fact. However, depending on what you are trying to do, assigning a chord to one button can be very useful. It doesn't make anyone less of a 'musician'. I am surprised to hear this coming from an Ableton Live user.

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Post by jestermgee » Thu May 13, 2021 10:45 pm

mbreeson wrote:
Thu May 13, 2021 9:41 pm
Baron von Case wrote:
Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:03 am
A musician doesn't need an automatic chord key.
I am a musician that can play every chord on the planet. Extremely well in fact. However, depending on what you are trying to do, assigning a chord to one button can be very useful. It doesn't make anyone less of a 'musician'. I am surprised to hear this coming from an Ableton Live user.
Don't get too worked up, this thread was 13 years ago and things have changed a bit since then.

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