This creates extra notes three semitones and seven semitones above the root, giving us a nice warm minor triad.Are you looking to make a banger to get everyone on the dance floor? Well, this week’s video is just the thing for you. We’ve chosen to load the Minor preset from the Single>Triads category. On the Diva channel strip, underneath the EQ box there is a MIDI FX slot. Now we can take things one step further by using Logic’s Chord Trigger MIDI effect to generate chords from the MIDI notes we’ve created.

We’ll load an instance of U-he’s excellent Diva synth and recall the ‘HS Fatima poly’ patch found in the POLY SYNTH category. Now we can transfer this MIDI region to another synth and search for a more interesting sound. Logic will extract the MIDI data and create an Electric Piano track with the pattern. Towards the bottom of this menu you will see ‘Create MIDI Track from Flex Pitch Data’. In the top left of the pane there is an Edit drop-down menu. Double-click on the audio region to bring up Flex Pitch editing. We now need to transfer the MIDI notes we’ve generated to a new instrument. You will now see MIDI notes appear on the audio region, reflecting the pitches of each percussion hit. Underneath the Flex icon there is a drop-down menu containing the different types of Flex editing we can apply. You will now see a Flex icon appear on the audio track click this so it turns purple and activates Flex editing for this audio region. Now press cmd-F on your keyboard to show Flex Pitch/Time. If your first choice of loop doesn’t create good results, it’s quick and easy to try another one until you find something that works. We’ve made sure there is some variation between the different percussion hits contained in the loop, so the MIDI we extract from this loop will contain notes of different pitch. We’ve loaded a two-bar percussion loop onto an audio track. There are even plugins dedicated to this task such as Melodyne. We’re using Logic Pro X here, but Ableton and Cubase both feature the ability to extract MIDI data from audio files. Step 1īegin by loading a percussion loop into your DAW. Furthermore, playing back the hook you’ve created alongside your original percussion loop usually creates a strong framework to build on. UsE Audio-To-Score To CREATE ChordsĮxtracting the melody from a percussion loop can be a great way to kickstart a new idea. Jonny Strinati walks through ten techniques to help break the writer’s block and generate new track ideas. Most producers know the frustration of a creative dry spell.

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