How to Trigger Existing MIDI Arrangement, Chord-by-Chord
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:54 am
If I have a long MIDI clip (e.g. a MIDI piano song). Is there a way to trigger the upcoming notes in realtime via a MIDI controller? So that the next note doesn't play until I hit a button. And then again. And again.
Basically creating a groove manually in realtime, but hearing the prewritten MIDI notes play out so I get a feel for the song.
The idea is that I'm not a pianist. But I'm composing piano songs. The notes are quantized. And then at the end I'd like to add a human groove by hitting a MIDI button each time I want the next notes to play. Because I want some flow instead of the robotic metronome feel. (Let's assume it's all chords for this concept).
I have been recording silent "ghost notes" to fit the groove solely so I can see it on the timeline, and then manually shifting all the notes around on the timeline to fit the timing I want. But it's a pain AND there's no realtime audio feedback. Because I don't know how to play the piano.
One labor-intensive way would be to manually assign each chord to a separate drum rack hit, and then sequentially hitting each drum rack. But if the song is 3 minutes, then that's way too many and that takes way too much time.
.....I'm hoping to just have 1 MIDI button that will always jump to playing the next note in the MIDI clip. Make sense?
Example: Random simple MIDI clip below. I'd like to hit a MIDI key that will play the chords in this exact order, but the rhythm depends on however I press the key. AND record it that way & play it back in realtime so I can hear it. Thanks!
Basically creating a groove manually in realtime, but hearing the prewritten MIDI notes play out so I get a feel for the song.
The idea is that I'm not a pianist. But I'm composing piano songs. The notes are quantized. And then at the end I'd like to add a human groove by hitting a MIDI button each time I want the next notes to play. Because I want some flow instead of the robotic metronome feel. (Let's assume it's all chords for this concept).
I have been recording silent "ghost notes" to fit the groove solely so I can see it on the timeline, and then manually shifting all the notes around on the timeline to fit the timing I want. But it's a pain AND there's no realtime audio feedback. Because I don't know how to play the piano.
One labor-intensive way would be to manually assign each chord to a separate drum rack hit, and then sequentially hitting each drum rack. But if the song is 3 minutes, then that's way too many and that takes way too much time.
.....I'm hoping to just have 1 MIDI button that will always jump to playing the next note in the MIDI clip. Make sense?
Example: Random simple MIDI clip below. I'd like to hit a MIDI key that will play the chords in this exact order, but the rhythm depends on however I press the key. AND record it that way & play it back in realtime so I can hear it. Thanks!