The ‘wrap’ transformation blew my mind. I know music theory, and modular synthesis, but that was next-level thinking. You’ve earned a Patreon sub. Amazing. Thanks for your videos, i really appreciate your hard work. 👨🍳👌
this is gold, I knew about this for a loooong time, try to teach my musicial friends too, they say its cheating, I say its understanding of harmony. This is gold..
Great tut as always! But I have a different perspective: getting the notes down (as a pianist/keyboardist) is easy; it’s how to put them and their respective instruments together afterwards which I fear. It’s like: opening a bunch of bags and tins from the kitchen - some olives, broccoli, meat, random spices - all worthy items in and of themselves, all laying out before me, but then wondering: how the hell am I to put them together in some sort of meaningful way without making myself sick!? Lol
But that’s just another fun part! Experiment! And unlike food, if you make something that doesn’t sound good, it *doesn’t* make you physically ill! 😂 So just play around! Every day if possible. You’ll improve. I promise.
Another thing you can do - listen to movie soundtracks. Especially John Williams and Danny Elfman, which are easy to hear. Listen to how they combine different instruments. Take notes. Like, ‘hmm, flutes first, then same chords played with horns, for more emotion.’ That can absolutely be translated to electronic music. For example, starting with chords played with sine waves.. then bring in sawtooth waves gradually to increase the depth of texture. There are no rules! You can do literally anything, so just keep an open mind, and take notes when you listen to music you like,
When note fx came along I did this kind of thing a lot with multi note and transpose modulators, using steps to change the pitch amounts… or even a note echo with a pitch change going into multi note to find not just a progression but the rhythm… lots of terrible moments but some really nice ones! I’d try to record the bits - sometimes it might just be a strange transition in the end, not the main part of a track. Fun times!
Awesome video! Always looking at how to grab math concepts and put them in a sound design/musical context. I was wondering if you tought about this concepts in the context of non-temperated chords? What would this look like with generating chords but using relation between frequencies instead of pitches? Of course bwig has some tools for non-tempered music (micro-pitch mostly) but haven't seen anything on the grid that conceptualizes like you did here!
Wow. What a great question. I wonder how much of that would be just quantizing the same pitches we’re using for this diatonic harmony experiment, to their non-tempered counterparts. Hmmm. Now i need to do some research.
Related question. Is there a way to do logic within the grid, so we could identify ‘if scale step is 7 then reduce tuning by X cents’? Could potentially just have an array of ‘corrected’ pitches, per scale degree.
Im trying to wrap my head round how the note wrapper is working, and why 10 is the value that works. Trying to figure out if I can wrap the notes into 2 octaves instead of 1.
- the wrapper wraps everything between 0.0 - 1.0 - one semitone with the pitch signal equals +0.008 - C3 equals 0.000 - C4 equals 0.100 - to wrap one octave we have to scale up the signal, so 0.100 (c4) becomes 1.000 and the wrapper can work, after this wie divide by 10 so we get the original scaling back. - to wrap 2 octaves we have to scale up so C5 (0.200) becomes 1.000, so times 5 (instead 10) - so instead of 10, you should use 5
Thanks so much. I was playing with the constant and trying to see how it was changing. Makes sense when you see the math laid out. Have a feeling i'm going to love the grid. Switched to Bitwig from ableton a few months back after getting into VCV. Realised how much more fun I have writing music away from the traditional piano roll. Will never look back.@@PolarityMusic
"Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?" - meme about the blank page I like how this was explained a lot and will be sharing it with a Discord server for musicians (metal musicians so the power chord thing should resonate pretty well).
Wow... this is a whole new way to look at it, from my view - and it works. Wow. However... being a Live user... Bitwig starts to hurt my brain in Note grid. haha
The ‘wrap’ transformation blew my mind. I know music theory, and modular synthesis, but that was next-level thinking. You’ve earned a Patreon sub. Amazing. Thanks for your videos, i really appreciate your hard work. 👨🍳👌
I wasn’t expecting a wonderfully practical lesson in music theory. Thank you!
this is gold, I knew about this for a loooong time, try to teach my musicial friends too, they say its cheating, I say its understanding of harmony. This is gold..
Hey it’s cheating, your music sounds good! 😂
I was surprised for the first moments. Polarity making chord progression in the piano roll? Finally! But then he switched to note grid again 😂
Classic bait and switch
Immer wieder ein Genuss.
Mathe pur.
danke meiner 👌
great tutorial
can you make more music theory-related content like the ratios and maths in scales?
Great tut as always! But I have a different perspective: getting the notes down (as a pianist/keyboardist) is easy; it’s how to put them and their respective instruments together afterwards which I fear.
It’s like: opening a bunch of bags and tins from the kitchen - some olives, broccoli, meat, random spices - all worthy items in and of themselves, all laying out before me, but then wondering: how the hell am I to put them together in some sort of meaningful way without making myself sick!? Lol
Great metaphor there!
But that’s just another fun part! Experiment! And unlike food, if you make something that doesn’t sound good, it *doesn’t* make you physically ill! 😂 So just play around! Every day if possible. You’ll improve. I promise.
Another thing you can do - listen to movie soundtracks. Especially John Williams and Danny Elfman, which are easy to hear. Listen to how they combine different instruments. Take notes. Like, ‘hmm, flutes first, then same chords played with horns, for more emotion.’ That can absolutely be translated to electronic music. For example, starting with chords played with sine waves.. then bring in sawtooth waves gradually to increase the depth of texture. There are no rules! You can do literally anything, so just keep an open mind, and take notes when you listen to music you like,
This is a great channel. Thanks
This is a really nice explanation. Thank you.
When note fx came along I did this kind of thing a lot with multi note and transpose modulators, using steps to change the pitch amounts… or even a note echo with a pitch change going into multi note to find not just a progression but the rhythm… lots of terrible moments but some really nice ones! I’d try to record the bits - sometimes it might just be a strange transition in the end, not the main part of a track. Fun times!
Awesome video! Always looking at how to grab math concepts and put them in a sound design/musical context. I was wondering if you tought about this concepts in the context of non-temperated chords? What would this look like with generating chords but using relation between frequencies instead of pitches? Of course bwig has some tools for non-tempered music (micro-pitch mostly) but haven't seen anything on the grid that conceptualizes like you did here!
Wow. What a great question. I wonder how much of that would be just quantizing the same pitches we’re using for this diatonic harmony experiment, to their non-tempered counterparts. Hmmm. Now i need to do some research.
Related question. Is there a way to do logic within the grid, so we could identify ‘if scale step is 7 then reduce tuning by X cents’? Could potentially just have an array of ‘corrected’ pitches, per scale degree.
Im trying to wrap my head round how the note wrapper is working, and why 10 is the value that works. Trying to figure out if I can wrap the notes into 2 octaves instead of 1.
- the wrapper wraps everything between 0.0 - 1.0
- one semitone with the pitch signal equals +0.008
- C3 equals 0.000
- C4 equals 0.100
- to wrap one octave we have to scale up the signal, so 0.100 (c4) becomes 1.000 and the wrapper can work, after this wie divide by 10 so we get the original scaling back.
- to wrap 2 octaves we have to scale up so C5 (0.200) becomes 1.000, so times 5 (instead 10)
- so instead of 10, you should use 5
Thanks so much. I was playing with the constant and trying to see how it was changing. Makes sense when you see the math laid out. Have a feeling i'm going to love the grid. Switched to Bitwig from ableton a few months back after getting into VCV. Realised how much more fun I have writing music away from the traditional piano roll. Will never look back.@@PolarityMusic
"Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?" - meme about the blank page
I like how this was explained a lot and will be sharing it with a Discord server for musicians (metal musicians so the power chord thing should resonate pretty well).
i hope your discord doesnt hate me after watching the video 🤣
amazing tutorial thanks!
How to make a Christmas chord generator ⛄️
Wow... this is a whole new way to look at it, from my view - and it works. Wow. However... being a Live user... Bitwig starts to hurt my brain in Note grid. haha
awesome
Good video
this is nothing but theory on a piano roll ..lmao
yes. like i said, most feared screen for producers :D