The sounds that you guys included into captain plugins are amazing, I love that there's such a variety, makes it so easy to really make sure things will sound good in my chosen genre
I know we've talked (via email) about having some tutorials for Epic. Thank you for getting this process going! Much appreciated. Looking forward to more of them!
Very good video. I should have watched this one before watching the other one which I more or less like. You go straight to the point and that's really good,
I wrote 9 months ago concerning the list of chords (or at least the availability to switch between the new "descriptive chord navigation" and a simple list of chords by generic roman numerals. This is what it says in the response: "1. Yes, I agree. I think we can bring back the list of chords - but with a better user interface. It's on our todo list and I'm planning to get that done.". I'm sure it got lost on the to-do list, but hopefully not forgotten, right? I still can't use the Epic versions due to this one feature (I can navigate for 15 minutes and fail to quickly stumble on what I can use - versus a simple generic vi-V-ii-I-iii or something, that follows my music composing ear. If the crafty rhythms could somehow magically dovetail perfectly with a certain set of chords, that would be a first of its kind. I'm not sure its possible. The conventional ways (such as by feel your sound, Tracktion waveform, Cubase, Studio One) is more to isolate the rhythm, or keep the melody and harmony calculated separately. But when "chords" are defined with the main chord tones but also with passing tones, often choosing a chord progression will conflict with a rhythm. Having a generic list of progressions with mainly chord tones prevents the conflicts, or if choosing a chord with extensions one can see where it is in the chord progression (i.e. 3rd of 4 chords) and go right in and fix the disharmonious extension, improve its voice leading, etc. I'm saying all this in context of auditioning. I do realize that if one has something committed it is easy to invest in fixing it - but that's not the point of auditioning.
I have scaler 2 but I’m getting this! I think it’s great that you’re working on the features current users are talking about while adding new ones. I love the rhythmic features in it over scaler. Love the videos, please keep ‘em coming…often 🎶❤️
Great to hear! :) We have some amazing new features being deployed soon as well. It will be a free update for all Captain Epic users. We are working hard and deploying almost daily updates to the plugins :)
I would really like this video to have subtitles, it would make learning a lot easier, since RUclips translates automatically, Captain chord is an incredible tool, it deserves attention!! long live the devs...
I agree - and I want to learn how to handle Custom Chords, but I think should be 2 separate functions. One function to ask Captain Chords to create a new voicing of a new typed chord name. The other function to leave the notes alone, but accept a new root (from the existing notes). For instance if the progression I'm given has an Am7, and I want it to be thought of as a C6 (which should definitely change the way Captain Deep understands it). When I try to fix a bad chord progression or follow a good bass line once I manage to get a good chord progression, its necessary that the program can handle my changing (correcting) the chord root. For instance, if the progression has a few chords that are intended as having different roots - I literally had an A Major followed by a D Maj7. Epic thought the D Maj7 should be a type of A chord with a Sus. So the bass lines being generated seemed off, and when I tried to change the "A" to a "D" the program interpreted that as my asking it to give me a new voicing of a new D chord. There needs to be a feature to simply leave the notes the same but correct the root. (Roots of chords are not the lowest note of chords. The root of the chords that make up a song can sometimes be determined by notes played by more than one instrument. So this ability to simply leave the notes the same and correct the root needs to be added - the sooner its added the sooner this program will rocket in sales volume. I think Scaler 2 will have some serous competition but this issue makes it frustrating and a bust for going beyond super tame progressions.
Hey guys, we're adding Strum back in shortly - it's already in beta-testing and it works. The change to the "Epic" engine required a rewrite of some of our algorithms because everything needed to be improved to handle the more sophisticated "pianistic" chords that appeared in Epic. Because of that, Space/Strum/Swing are all coming back with a new UI design. And, as a few people mentioned, it would be nice to bring back the "List of possible chord progressions". We have a pretty good idea on how to make it look nicer and less "busy" visually. It's in the queue, although it'll take a while to get it done since there are other things in front of it
@@mixedinkey - I just want to chime in my opinion here. For me adding those chord progressions back is really needed - I don't really understand why the new list, by genre, was done. I think the original list was sort of "foolproof" type of progs. The new progs require choice and change and it makes me go back to FL Studio's piano roll. The list in Captain 5 was helpful in that most of the stuff I would do was already there in the list.
Hi Andy - when I import midi into Capatain Chords I can't select the notes via CTRL A or just select everything to move the imported notes to the right position. THX
I bought Captain "suite" yesterday and can say this is quite a piece of innovative music creation software! Learning curve is easy for a newbie like me thanks to a very intuitive interface. Andy, your tutorial is outstanding, very clear, thank you! Just one question: I have not been able to see how it is possible to cut or divide/slice a chord (just one, not the whole progression) in smaller pieces. How to do this please? I will of course watch all your other tuto's, perhaps I'll find there.
Actually, I think I found it in Rythm section ==> Categories ==> Blocks, there I found what I was looking for, but was still unable to apply this to only 1 chord, and not the entire progression
Great question. There is a way of doing that. When you click on “Rhythm” on the footer menu, and hover your mouse over to the rhythm name on that section, you will see an option to “split” the rhythm. When you do that, just select which section you want to change the rhythm of, and select the rhythm you want on the menu that will pop up. Let me know if that helps :)
@@mixedinkey Thank you for your swift response Andy, yes that helps, and the result is fantastic, one can really do anything with Captain Epic! I am on it for hours now, fascinated, and just can't unplug from it!
I upgraded sóme time ago to Captain Chords Epic (PC), but the version I have doesn't have the same functionality as in your tutorials. F.inst no Velocity tab, and I can't split the rhythm in the Rhythm tab. Weird since it's supposed to be the latest versiom.
You are correct. The tutorial used the Mac version, the Windows version is still catching up on some of the features, so you will have both Velocity and Rhythm Split functionalities soon 🙏
It's on our roadmap. We've been working on bringing some other features back (i.e. inversions has already been added back). We will work on complexity, strum, space, etc next. We have a brand-new feature that will be an amazing addition to the plugins as well. Then, we will work on the tabs. It will work even better than in version 5 🙂
@@mixedinkey awesome! I was just going to ask about the song arrangement tabs. I really love the new Chord Progressions, Rhythm, and the new Phaseplant synths are actually useable in a final track now not just a placeholder sound. Please continue with the "Favorite" button for presets too, I'd love to see that come over to Cpt. Epic Drums too for the kits and the patterns.
Thank you for this very useful overview. You saved me a lot of time by demonstrating how to use all the new features. I think the many added functionalities are well worth the cost of the upgrade and worth the slight pain of adjusting to the mechanics of the revised interface.
FWIW, I rarely used the tabs and felt they were distracting. I think they got rid of them on purpose? Ideally, it would be an option you could toggle! Regardless, this suite of tools continues to be the best value I have ever seen in a plug-in that wasn't free!🤘
SOLD (upgrade- I was holding-off) “Epic” is well deserved. Now it seems to be a really truely useful (in every track/ permanent template addition) plugin. BTW this video should have been put-out day one of the release. Looking forward to more videos. I would like to see how people are using this in conjunction with Scaler 2.5 (which everyone has or needs to get). I can see them working well together.
We had some delays on making the video because we were still working on some UI changes (we still are), so we had to wait a bit to screenrecord the latest version with the new features added. We will be making new videos as well. I think we are dropping one today, in fact 🙂
I'm really enjoying the upgrade to Epic. I find it much easier to use. Can we have a tutorial on how to make good versus and choruses that compliment each other. When I start in verse I end up with what should be a chorus and I don't what to do to vary them.
Make one the relative major and the other the relative minor. So Am and C major for example. Or D major and Bm. You can do this with modes also. Also try a higher melody in the chorus, the bridge to the chorus can have the melody climbing up to get ready for it. And finally, try changing the rate of chord changes, e.g. one per bar to two per bar.
Firstly, is there a way to use the old versions with the new versions, as I saw in several tutorials? Next, there are 4 things that I think should be going on from a first impression (excuse me if these are all available already bcuz I didn't get thru the videos on Epic yet. (My eyes aren't the best, so when I watch tutorials I can't always see what's happening.) 1) There really should be access to that old list of chords - it can be useful and should be added to, not eliminated. (This same thing applies to the old bass rhythms [ Edit, actually for the most part I think in Deep the names are the same or similar but it is missing in Capt'n Chords] (The helpful nature of a tree hierarchy becomes a hindrance when you can't see the whole hierarchy but can only see the top level. Whereas with the chord progress, or those clever names along several pages the names serve to become familiar. Both approaches have their advantage. 2) I find immediately that there should be a "move playhead to cursor (modified by snap-to-grid behavior of current setting perhaps, or possibly more effectively simply snapping to the nearest bar or half bar). I know this is in conflict with the function of following the DAW playhead. XLN Audio's XO for example, solves this by letting the user de-couple the vst (disable the tempo sync so that tempo is handled internally in the vst. I assumed that would be in Epic, but I'm not seeing it. Having that option would be essential to composing, since when composing beyond one's skills on an instrument, I think one typically needs to audition 1-2 bars or less at a time - and Epic is now requiring to cycle the whole progression (unless there's a loop narrowing feature - like setting loop markers in the DAW - I don't see that. 2a) When I am previewing the music I've written and I double click to add a note while zoomed in, it adds the note, but unzooms me and I have to scroll back to where I was to continue editing-auditioning. 3) There should be an "audio preview of note clicked on" feature very definitely as well. (I'm in Captain Deep at the moment, and I don't think there's a way to raise./lower velocity of individual notes - maybe that feature is there or coming soon? Its actually of lesser importance than other things, since I could always edit the velocity of the bass notes in the DAW as MIDI. Composing the notes of the chords and the notes of the bass are more important than there velocities for me.) 4) I'm pretty sure this is already possible, but I've got Captain Chords linked to Captain Deep, and when I fix the octaves of the chords to match the new sound I've chosen, Deep thinks its supposed to follow the octave, whereas I already had been satisfied with the octave that Deep was playing at. I'm not seeing a lock button to prevent that (I don't think it applies the other way around, so I don't think a lock button is needed in Captain Chords, but it seems necessary in Deep). Is there some way to keep the bass from following the changes to chord octaves? (I believe there used to be a way to back up work. The idea is that, suppose I'm doing some chords and adding a bit of arrpeggio idea to one bar. Lets say I then apply some different rhythm Ideas. If I don't export the idea into the DAW, I can't revert to the original idea when I realize that applying some particular rhythm deletes the arpeggio (It can be a bit unpredictable if you don't know the rhythm until after you select it. ) It would be nice to have undo levels, or simple the old way where every time you get happy with something you just save the preset. ) Good work Mixed In Key! I will let you know my other thoughts but I'm glad you're plowing forward. I actually spent quite a bit on Tracktion Waveform 9 or 10 when they first introduced a Chord track and similar features to captain deep and so forth. However you guys kept developing whereas they seem to have chosen abandonment (although I acknowledge that they probably were busy trying to equal the Studio One stuff which includes audio as well as MIDI - can't knock 'em cuz that's ridiculously complicated). From what I can tell, Studio One's chord track feature, in terms of MIDI, is still very clunky - we need you guys to excel in this particular niche, so keep going!
Hey, I am really sorry about the lack of reply on this. I think your comment got stuck in our RUclips "auto-moderation" queue for no apparent reason, and I didn't read it until now. Thankfully, it didn't get lost completely, and it's published now (plus we turned off that auto-moderation feature on RUclips, because it randomly hid some comments that it shouldn't have. my apologies!!) To answer your feedback publicly: 1. Yes, I agree. I think we can bring back the list of chords - but with a better user interface. It's on our todo list and I'm planning to get that done. 2. You're right on this. We've been experimenting with that feature for about a month now, and I think we're getting somewhere with it. We already tried at least 3 or 4 different ways to sync with the DAW and what you're describing is likely the best option. 2a. Is this on Windows or Mac? I tried on Windows and it seemed to be OK. 3. You're right. There is one on Captain Melody (on Windows, at least) but not on Chords. I'm surprised, we'll add that in. I think Velocity just got re-added in a recent build, so that should be available now. 4. I am not sure it's possible to prevent Captain Deep from reacting to Chords in such a specific way, but the idea to "lock notes" in Chords and Deep has been suggested a few times. We're considering it. Thank you for all your feedback. It's awesome. And sorry again for the delay - RUclips's comment algorithm totally broke on our channel. -Yakov
@@mixedinkey On 2a actually I am in WIndows. Keep in mind that the playhead is rolling when I do this. I don't think it is an issue when the playhead (DAW playback) isn't rolling. I really appreciate your getting back to me. I'm not in any rush, your answers were great. But one thing, could you please respond to my issue above (a separate comment I left a day or so later) regarding the issue of when Epic or the original version of Captain Chords assigns the wrong chord, and by using Custom Chord feature, and changing the name of the chord, it triggers Captain chords to put in its own version of those notes. In other words, its unpredictable in this case - where you as the user have the right notes, but Captain Chords just has a wrong name (e.g. the track is basically using Am7 but Captain Chords wants it to be a C6 - sorry for that basic example - the real issue that was proving such a problem was dealing with a case where it had assigned A Maj 11 when I was building the track around that chord being a DMaj7. (Deep, being instructed that it is an A, emphasizes the major 3rd of A (C#), which was a dissonant Maj7 tone of the D Maj7, which has a P5 of D, that wants to resolve to D, and a Major third (F#.) that is the Maj 6 degree of A, and acts as a root (being a P5 down) of C#, the 3rd of A. Bass players don't get enough credit. Making proper bass lines and sensing the more proper chord tone rootings is a highly advanced subject when verbalized. Bass players build this sense of language around it - it should be possible for Captain Chords and Captain Deep to emulate that skill, but its important to let the user correct a mis-perception. It won't affect pop music build strictly on triads, but it will affect soul music, gospel music, hip hop, blues, jazz, etc.
why does nothing say about looping it says one thing where you click It on and off. that still doesn't help when it keeps looping after 4 beats. how can I resolve this? ive been at this for just over an hour now.
Nice tutorial Andy but.... The removing of the tabs, to layout your song Verse, chorus etc is a big reduction in workflow. Yes you can drop to your DAW but what if you want to tweak the original pattern/chord and you have deleted it and moved on to your next part? (and it's a pain in FL studio due to a lack of linear timeline in the channel view). Also the first ever plugin not to work with reaper? I have had to download bandlab to use this plugin properly.
Hey Michael, we've removed the Chords/Verse, etc tabs from this first Epic upgrade because we wanted to improve them. It's been worked on right now, and the new tabs will work even better than they did on version 5 🙌 Regarding Reaper, I belive the plugins should be working fine with it. Can you please shoot us an email at contact@mixedinkey.com with more info on the issues you are having with it? We will help you troubleshoot it from there 🙂
Hey Andy, I have to ask this (actually anyone can reply if they know an answer), I have been using this program since it's first version and something that is driving me absolutely crazy because of my lack of music theory is why the second row of chords in Captain Chords displays chords that are NOT in the key I have selected, I realize that these chord "suggestions" are to swap your currently selected chord with a variation, however is there a way to turn off all chords that contain notes that are NOT in my current key ? For instance in CC I pick Am and then the second row gives a swap choice of Amaj ?!!! I mean, I can't use any of the second row chords at this point because I don't know how many sour notes each chord contains. I really would rather know what chord alternatives and "safe"; ones that will add complexity, but stay in my selected key, this has been driving me absolutely crazy for 3 years and I find myself using EX Keys2 more since it only gives alternatives in your current key.
Hi Andy, I just purchased the upgrade! I was wondering: Is there still a way to use the "strum" function (especially when playing the chords on the laptop keyboard)
In the 5 version i can select section (Verse) and (Chorus) but in the Epic version i do not see those options.... How i can create verse and chorus and bridge with same progression?
We temporarily removed them on Captain Epic, but we are bringing them back soon. The new tabs will work even better than the ones we have on version 5 🙂
Hopefully saving chord progressions will come back with the reintroduction of tabs. I suggest adding drag & drop to midi import would be a time saver. A fine upgrade though.😉
Exactly right. Both "Save Preset" and reintroduction of tabs are coming. The drag-and-drop is on the todo list as well, but just a slightly lower priority since "Import MIDI" button does a similar thing. Appreciate your feedback, thanks Jack
Hi guys, awesome software! Quick question: in CC Epic, is there a song section option like in Captain chords 5 with intro, verse, prechorus, chorus, bridge, drop??? --- I know all the sections approach is a little more singer songwriter -- but its coming back in RnB, neo soul etc.....only 3 or 4 chords is maybe getting -- or will be -- not enough or even lazy ? :-)
We removed the tabs temporarily, but we will be bringing them back. The new version of the tabs will be even more awesome than the ones we had in version 5 🚀
ALERT to ALL: There is no "Rhythm Tap" in Captain Chords Epic as visible in this video. We are expecting this video to be re-edited, an announcement of this exclusion and / or hopefully an update that provides this VERY USEFUL function.
You can use external VST instruments as well. You can either route it to your VST (we have some tutorials inside the plugin on how to do that depending on your DAW), or you can use the Plugins tab inside Captain and choose your VST plugin and presets from there :)
Made sure I was on the latest version. There is no velocity tab, and in the rythm tab I don't get the icons to split or delete when I hover the mouse over a section. It only lets me change the rythm preset for the entire section. I am using Cubase. I am guessing the version you used for this video hasn't been released quite yet.
The Windows version is catching up to Mac, there are a few features missing that are coming back to it soon. You're right that those specific things are not on Windows right now but will be in the future. We're on it. -Yakov
Thanks for your kind post but I can only give it 9.9/10. Why? You speak to fast for me to understand what you are saying without rewinding. Best wishes Captain Plugins, may success be yours! 👋
If you look at the bottom right of the UI, you will see a little 🔍 icon where you can change it from scale view to Normal view. If you use the normal view, you can enter any notes on the canvas, including out-of-scale notes. Let me know if it helps :)
I find it very strange that there are so many midi chord plugins on the market, yet no one seems to be doing anything with AI behind the scenes. To me, this one is just like all the others. What would actually be useful is if someone made something like Steinberg chord track into a midi plugin. THAT'S how you write lightning fast chord progressions on e.g. a bus ride home with a laptop and no midi keyboard. Because - after you choose your initial chord, Steinberg give you a choice of chords for the next chord that actually FITS. Then the next one will easily fit and follow on from the second. It's not just giving a bunch of chords one can play in a scale, it's actually MUSICAL. I am not really explaining it properly and it has to be used to really be understood. It's an actual ASSISTANT. The other plugins are just so simple that you can't create those beautiful non typical progressions like you can with Steinberg. Seriously, buy Cubase elements for $99 (and less when on sale), it will work out so much cheaper and do absolutely everything that all these plugins do but a lot better. The beauty is that the cheapest cubase has the full chord track features, so even if you don't want to use it as a DAW, just create your chords and export as midi file, DONE.
why is there no detect chords by audio or midi like in scaler? exporting a track to midi to import it again over the explorer only is a waste of time. or at least add drag and drop from the daw.
Thank you for noticing, we missed that one. I'll ask the team to put that on the todo list and it'll come back in a free update. There's no reason for that checkbox to be missing.
I have found this first tutorial (for me), interesting but puzzling. At the start, you said; if you are not familiar with Captain plugins, don't worry, I'll start from the beginning. Now I like to reproduce tutorials as exactly as they sound. I find it helps me to understand the tutorial more easily. When I heard the first sounds, I couldn't work out where the drums came from and you didn't explain. I now presume that the drums came from Captain Beat. Is this true? Otherwise, a very good tutorial. Thank you.
Any chance you'll be adding the verse, chorus, drop tabs from the original version? Would hate to have to open multiple instances to keep my chord progressions of each section nice and neat.
There are big differences between them, but at the end of the day they work together. You can use Captain Chords together with Pilot Melody and Pilot Arpeggio. In our view, Captain is more like Photoshop that gives you lots of control over the big canvas where you can edit the MIDI notes and use lots of tools. Pilot is more like an analog synthesizer where you tweak knobs and get great melodies as a result. It's a new category of instrument because this has never existed before... I guess we'd call it a "knob-to-MIDI" workflow :)
Yes. That's correct. When you import a MIDI file, you get the options to import it on the original key or transpose the key to the one you are working in your Captain Chords Epic project 😎
hey, we haven't tested it on Dedkadance 2 software, but I will add it to out To-Do list and see if there is any workaround for getting your MIK results into that software :)
The way captain chords are set When I want to play chords I’m only limited to playing chords I’m not able to play a chord with a melody simultaneously like pianists do I have to play chords then go create a melody separately
The complexity button doesn't even work on mine. I can't call this an upgrade. I wish is was geared only towards electronic dance music cause theres quite a lot of horrible rhythm presets. Not to mention some of them turns them into melodies and erases some of the chords. I guess I gotta lock them maybe? It's honestly more screwed up than before. It ran pretty smooth before Epic. Why don't these type of plugins come with common chord progressions? OMG and when I change the lengths of the chords it adds a completely new chord. Yeah I'm out. Gonna try Scaler 2 I got it for iOS and at least that has some common chord progressions. Seriously go listen to some of your own presets and tell me they're good. Like David Bennett puts out videos called common chord progressions and they're so common that they should all be in there yet all we get are these bunk progressions no one uses. Some of the presets don't even make rhythmic sense.
Woohoo finally someone who liked the "New" category :) Thank you! I appreciate that because I worked hard on those for Captain 5 :) I'll see if we can make a special "vintage" bank of those
Are you using FL Studio? By default, FL Studio has only 1 measure, so loop points of 0 and 4 are set, so only the first measure would be played in the plugin. You have to put Fl Studio in 'Song' mode, go to pattern and extend a Midi Clip to the number of bars you want. Let me know if it helps :)
We temporarily removed them on this Epic version, but they are making a comeback very soon. We wanted to improve the tabs before adding it to this version. So, the new tabs will work even better than they did on version 5 :)
Yes. There are tons of differences between version 5 and the latest Epic. Here are some examples: - Pianistic Playing functionality will make your chord progressions sound instantly better. - New Styles for chords, basslines, and melodies based on genres. - Import MIDI to Captain Chords. - PhasePlant presets to give you the perfect timbre for your sounds. - Full MIDI Editing for Captain Deep. - Captain Deep now features Play Styles, similar to Captain Chords, but specifically for basslines. - Brand-new user interface for a faster workflow. - And 200+ more.
This is a very helpful video, but is it really a "full walkthrough"?! As someone who has never used Captain plugins before and just bought epic yesterday I am finding that most tutorials on RUclips make any sense since the interface is quite different. Is there a manual for epic? Great product potentially but coming from Scaler 2 I am really struggling to find my way with CC epic. Thanks.
Hey Robert, thanks for your feedback. We really appreciate it. Can you please give us more info on the things you are struggling in when trying to use the plugins? We are working on a full how-to-guide for Captain Epic. Hopefully, we will have everything done very soon 🙏
@@mixedinkey actually I think I have worked it out. I was looking at the older version videos and thinking that there must be a way to access the verse / chorus tabs but now I understand that these are not (currently) part of epic. Thanks for taking the time to reply though. I appreciate it.
Not yet. It was taking us a while to launch the new version and adding time signatures would have created a further delay since we didn’t have special-made presets for 3/4, etc. We decided to wait until we have time to tackle the preset-making first.
I need your help Andy. I'm lost. The Captain Chords Epic plugin decided to name all of 3 bars of a four bar progression as the chord A Major 13 or something like this. I went back to a file I had backed up in my DAW. But it still thinks the 1st 3 half notes are an A Major chord. The 2nd half note is D, F#, C#, F#. To my mind this is a D Maj7., not an A Major. (I see how it jumped to calling it an A Maj13 now - I guess). My goal here is to somehow get the correct chords listed so that the bass line fits the chord harmony better. Since D (the actual chord) conflicts with the function of an A Major Chord (I know there is a D and there is a C sharp, so maybe the program is thinking this is some sort of A 11th, the intervals relative to A are the 11th, the Major 3rd, and 2 occurrences of 13th, but since there's no A here it is wrong to build the harmony as being A- if it were a momentary Sus function it would normally have the interval 5 half steps above the root, but momentarily omit the interval 4 half steps above the root, it wouldn't have both, AND omit the root (in this case it has been assumed by the program to be an A - I hope I'm making sense although I know this is pretty deep - I'll contact tech support :D.). In early versions of Captain Chord I think the Custom Chords feature didn't "follow the chords" that well. But hopefully that is resolved. The problem though now, is that when I try to split the 2nd half note from the 1st and the third, it changes the chord (and if I make a custom chord it also changes the chord, which is ALSO what I need help understanding. My thought was that Custom chords could be used to fix these times when the Captain Chords program is doing something strange (because in the past couple of days I've seen it do this, and it affected the bass line in a not so great way. But I don't want to change the chord notes, I want to keep the chord notes and change the name, so that it produces a better bass line. Is that possible? Cheers!
We removed them temporarily, but they are making a come back soon. We want to improve both of these features, so they will be even more powerful in Captain Epic :)
On your RUclips channel, we can't activate subtitles on most of your videos. As I am French, I can understand English in writing, but very badly in speaking. Can you make an effort for that? Sincerely,
We are adding them back. We temporarily removed them because we wanted to make some improvements. So, the new tabs will work even better than they did in version 5 🙂
Reason DAW is not officially supported, but it should be working fine. You have a 30-day money back guarantee on your purchase. If it's not working the way you expected, just shoot us an email and we will refund your money :)
The tempo is adjusted based on the one set in your DAW project. Regarding time signatures, it works in 4/4. We definitely want to add more time signature options in the future, but we don't have an ETA for it yet :)
@@mixedinkey I realized that this major requirement is not met (immediately after purchasing it yesterday). Would appreciate if this enhancement is on the cards in the forthcoming upgrades. As many of my compositions could be in odd time signatures like 6/8, 7/8, 5/4, the product may not work for me
I think we need to make an in-depth tutorial about that. My personal workflow is to put the acapella of the song I want to remix into my DAW, run that song through Mixed In Key 10 (or Mixed In Key Live, when I'm on my Mac) to find the key. Once the key is found, I usually open Captain Chords set to the same key, and start clicking [+] to add new chords. I click around the Magic Buttons at the top of the screen to hear what different chords sound like, and I pick something I like. Once my chord progression sounds interesting, I apply different rhythms to it, and play around with different basslines to find a good choice as well. That's my general workflow - but we can explain it better in a video, if you'd like.
Just upgraded and whilst the new features seem great I am getting very regular crashes, particularly on Captain chords. Everything is updated and my machine is comfortably specced up so this is a little confusing. Currently it's unusable for me tbh as once its crashed you can no longer access the VST within the project. So I got pretty far into some tracks which have needed to be restarted from scratch which is obviously frustrating. Not sure if this is happening for anyone else but its very frequent for me.
Hey Paul, sorry to hear that ;/ can you please shoot us an email with that crash report? We will make sure to have our developers take a look into this and get it fixed ASAP 🙏
@@mixedinkey Of course yep I can do that. Just to confirm tho the product is awesome and the new features are a big improvement - just need to figure out the crashes :)
View your comments from another profile later. They remove the ones they don't like. Your warning to other customers will be hidden from everyone but you so you won't know it.
@@2reason4life Yes, I've even tested it. They leave select ones they choose. Even if they leave my comments here, you will find that they won't deny this because we can screenshot it. Otherwise, this will simply disappear as "inappropriate".
@@2reason4life Actually, I just commented about them removing features and going backwards, only making basic triad progressions. Nothing I said wasn't fact though.
We don't have a trial version, but you do have a 30-day money-back guarantee on your purchase. If you are not happy with the plugins, just shoot us an email and we will refund 100% of your money. No questions asked :)
Are you using the Windows version? If so, we are working on getting the Humanize feature implemented on Windows as well. It's one of our top priorities on the Windows team 🙂
Omg then after it screws up all my chords from changing the length I discovered that when you draw a note it doesn't remember the length of the last note you selected so you have to go in and shorten the length manually. That's basic functionality what is this amateur hour? Was this plugin built by non professional musicians? As in people who don't even play music professionally? Thanks for the downgrade. Holy crap man I've discovered several more issues. Anyway I could please get a refund? Also why did you take away the Audio Export feature?
I don’t understand why you guys spend so much effort in built in sounds. While i use them for basic writing i ALWAYS USE a dedicated plugin as the sound source and just use the midi from the captains plugins. Unless you create a deep and dedicated synth id rather have you developing features like rhythms and chord libraries.
We're focusing on rhythms and chord libraries now. I personally like having good "stock sounds" because they make me happy, so that's why we spent some time on doing that. I don't want to make a crappy-sounding plugin because it wouldn't bring me as much joy to use. By the way, I also use Serum, Phase Plant, Kontakt, and Diva, so I know what you mean about dragging MIDI from Captain to other sources. But I still want the starting point to sound good. -Yakov
@@mixedinkey gotcha. The stock sounds you used to have I thought were actually fine for that. I mostly used the piano or some strings. I was using it yesterday along with ORB. I exported my chords from Captain chords and imported into ORB which has a different randomizing feature. I ended up with some interesting alternate patterns that i wouldn’t t have come across just using captains. I used them along with the chords and baseline i generated from Captains.
For me, it's a disappointing "upgrade" (?). The heart of this plugin was removed instead of expanding. No complex chords (already needed work), no progression library easily accessible. Where are the next level sounding chord progressions better than the last version? I'm told these things will be back and better. It's odd to release it before then when clearly users will expect the new features to be additions and enhancements. Please get back to BETTER Chords and progressions in Captain CHORDS. Take the triad progressions to new pro levels and ideas, and also not just the simple inversions like now but full chords used in todays EDM, pop, etc.. Auto. Shouldn't we load a progression and think, "WOW, that sounds full, pro, and amazing!"? Not, "this needs a lot of work and tweaking to make this pro and radio ready. Glad I have all of these nifty DAW-like editing features, rhythms and new synth sounds." Arpeggios, patterns, sounds etc. amateur chords. Strange priority in Captain CHORDS. A new & usable version does not exist in my mind, just hope for this beta version of ideas made for progressions that don't exist.
@@mixedinkey Yakov is an extremely patient and kind person. They show interest in taking all feedback, good and bad, and express a desire to use it for a better product. Although it doesn't change my mind about what I wrote, I do hope things turn around and get back to chord progressions first, then enhanced with patterns and other features. Otherwise, you simply have a pattern maker with nice sounds. People purchased for chords and progressions , that is a fact because patterns did not even exist. Obviously, they will want to take those chords and make patterns with them and the other requested features. Obviously, there will be positive feedback from people who who see patterns and better sounds. However, these are the same people who purchased for the chords first or they must prefer a pattern maker for their manual progressions. So when Yakov replies that clearly you can see positive feedback, it just boggles my mind for that to be a response to complaining that the heart of the plugin was removed. Chord progression. There will not be one customer who believes chord progressions should be the last priority and the least valued. Making patterns and sounds the priority by removing the core features does not make sense no matter how it is explained. As nice as you all are, it just seems that if this was not understood, I don't see a promising future of priorities for what Captain Chords used to be anytime soon. The way inversions were added back, if that is complete, doesn't improve them or clarify anything at all. It's a step backwards not even saying what inversion it is like it did before. I just don't get what you are trying to do. However, that's my opinion and it's not my plugin. I wish you all good luck.
too bad this is not a free update you know? i mean it brings some nice features but just would have bee nice if they had made it a FREE update for all plugin users. it doesnt seem all that much diffrent from five other then some interface changes i mean you had a chard seolection tool in 5 lol ok so i guess beter arrangement of chords and more rythem options i see. main thing is has deep been updated much...
Hey, thanks for your feedback! We introduced a small fee for the Epic update to support its development. We've added advanced features and significantly improved Chord, Deep, Melody, and Beat plugins. This charge helps us keep innovating while ensuring high-quality. Remember, the upgrade is optional. We've tried to keep it affordable, valuing our loyal users. Thanks for your understanding and support! :) In fact, we are already on version 7, which we just released to the public yesterday, here is more info on it: mixedinkey.com/captain-plugins/epic-upgrade/
Please show a serious project. From zero to the end of the project. I think this plugin was not developed for writing children's songs. It needs explanations for many things. For example full synchronization with the project grid in the DAW. And then the plugin lives by its own laws are not tied to the project. Show how to do it on a more serious example, not on a children's song. Make paid lessons. I think there will be those who will buy them. I'll be the first to buy.Thank you.
Stop trying to make this like a synth, so much of the stuff added is confusing and cumbersome for no reason. Keep it as a compositional tool, so ridiculous.
To pave the road for the future updates, we had to change the way Captain Chords was developed so it can be improved. The old version saw everything as "block chords" where all the notes were played at the same time. It had lots of cool rhythms, but it wasn't capable of playing arpeggios, and it wasn't able to add decorations or ear-candy notes. The new version is capable of that, and more. It took us a while to change the audio engine and the pianistic chord engine, but that work is behind us. Now we can focus on making it the best composition tool, just like you said. We aren't limited by the old software code anymore - the new one is easier for us to expand, and we can actually create all the compositional tools that we've always wanted to make. In regards to your ideas - what was confusing or cumbersome? Please let me know, I'm looking for feedback. Post here, or email privately at contact@mixedinkey.com. Thanks! -Yakov
@@mixedinkey Okay but arps, humanizing, "ear candy notes", etc. can all be done just in the daw midi after i drag it in, and its way easier to do it that way. The UI should show almost nothing but ideas for chords and notes. It hardly matters how theyre played and sound outside of basics that keep it simple. No one wants so much extra crap on the UI, and things to remember and tabs, etc, etc.
if you guys are gonna give tutorials give in depth tutorial. you showed nothing or mention anything about how to change the bars from repeating the same two bars you just jumped straight into what you already had recorded. dont put walkthrough/tutorial when you dont cover everything
Are you using FL Studio? By default, FL Studio has only 1 measure, so loop points of 0 and 4 are set, so only the first measure would be played in the plugin. You have to put Fl Studio in 'Song' mode, go to pattern and extend a Midi Clip to the number of bars you want 🙂
The sounds that you guys included into captain plugins are amazing, I love that there's such a variety, makes it so easy to really make sure things will sound good in my chosen genre
Awesome 🤩 Glad you like them!
Andy’s tutorials is always refreshing and informative to see. This is very helpful; thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Andy is a beast making tutorials 😎🔥
I know we've talked (via email) about having some tutorials for Epic. Thank you for getting this process going! Much appreciated. Looking forward to more of them!
Working on more tutorials as we speak :)
Very good video. I should have watched this one before watching the other one which I more or less like. You go straight to the point and that's really good,
YES. Andy is the best - more from him; was waiting for this to drop, great job as always.
Glad you enjoyed it! More to come 😎
I wrote 9 months ago concerning the list of chords (or at least the availability to switch between the new "descriptive chord navigation" and a simple list of chords by generic roman numerals.
This is what it says in the response: "1. Yes, I agree. I think we can bring back the list of chords - but with a better user interface. It's on our todo list and I'm planning to get that done.". I'm sure it got lost on the to-do list, but hopefully not forgotten, right? I still can't use the Epic versions due to this one feature (I can navigate for 15 minutes and fail to quickly stumble on what I can use - versus a simple generic vi-V-ii-I-iii or something, that follows my music composing ear. If the crafty rhythms could somehow magically dovetail perfectly with a certain set of chords, that would be a first of its kind. I'm not sure its possible. The conventional ways (such as by feel your sound, Tracktion waveform, Cubase, Studio One) is more to isolate the rhythm, or keep the melody and harmony calculated separately. But when "chords" are defined with the main chord tones but also with passing tones, often choosing a chord progression will conflict with a rhythm. Having a generic list of progressions with mainly chord tones prevents the conflicts, or if choosing a chord with extensions one can see where it is in the chord progression (i.e. 3rd of 4 chords) and go right in and fix the disharmonious extension, improve its voice leading, etc. I'm saying all this in context of auditioning. I do realize that if one has something committed it is easy to invest in fixing it - but that's not the point of auditioning.
I have scaler 2 but I’m getting this! I think it’s great that you’re working on the features current users are talking about while adding new ones. I love the rhythmic features in it over scaler. Love the videos, please keep ‘em coming…often 🎶❤️
Great to hear! :) We have some amazing new features being deployed soon as well. It will be a free update for all Captain Epic users. We are working hard and deploying almost daily updates to the plugins :)
Mixed In Key & Captain Plugins SOFTWARE Coolness 🎶
I would really like this video to have subtitles, it would make learning a lot easier, since RUclips translates automatically, Captain chord is an incredible tool, it deserves attention!! long live the devs...
Thanks for the suggestions. We've added subtitles to a bunch of videos, but we will make sure to keep adding to more videos like this one soon :)
@@mixedinkey thanks!
Holy COW, Andy. I need to update right now!!
Go for it! 🚀
@@mixedinkey I knew this day would come. Free upgrades forever was too good to be true...😭
dears, what happened to the list of possible chord progressions? and what happened to the Strum function?
I wish they put them back as well
I agree - and I want to learn how to handle Custom Chords, but I think should be 2 separate functions. One function to ask Captain Chords to create a new voicing of a new typed chord name. The other function to leave the notes alone, but accept a new root (from the existing notes). For instance if the progression I'm given has an Am7, and I want it to be thought of as a C6 (which should definitely change the way Captain Deep understands it). When I try to fix a bad chord progression or follow a good bass line once I manage to get a good chord progression, its necessary that the program can handle my changing (correcting) the chord root. For instance, if the progression has a few chords that are intended as having different roots - I literally had an A Major followed by a D Maj7. Epic thought the D Maj7 should be a type of A chord with a Sus. So the bass lines being generated seemed off, and when I tried to change the "A" to a "D" the program interpreted that as my asking it to give me a new voicing of a new D chord. There needs to be a feature to simply leave the notes the same but correct the root. (Roots of chords are not the lowest note of chords. The root of the chords that make up a song can sometimes be determined by notes played by more than one instrument. So this ability to simply leave the notes the same and correct the root needs to be added - the sooner its added the sooner this program will rocket in sales volume. I think Scaler 2 will have some serous competition but this issue makes it frustrating and a bust for going beyond super tame progressions.
Hey guys, we're adding Strum back in shortly - it's already in beta-testing and it works. The change to the "Epic" engine required a rewrite of some of our algorithms because everything needed to be improved to handle the more sophisticated "pianistic" chords that appeared in Epic. Because of that, Space/Strum/Swing are all coming back with a new UI design. And, as a few people mentioned, it would be nice to bring back the "List of possible chord progressions". We have a pretty good idea on how to make it look nicer and less "busy" visually. It's in the queue, although it'll take a while to get it done since there are other things in front of it
@@mixedinkey Awesome dears!
@@mixedinkey - I just want to chime in my opinion here. For me adding those chord progressions back is really needed - I don't really understand why the new list, by genre, was done. I think the original list was sort of "foolproof" type of progs. The new progs require choice and change and it makes me go back to FL Studio's piano roll. The list in Captain 5 was helpful in that most of the stuff I would do was already there in the list.
Upgraded and very very excited to put these bad boys to use!
Great update guys. Upgrade price was good too!
Thank you ❤️
Hi and thanks; just upgraded to EPIC and will use it tonight for the first time.
Awesome 😎🔥
Hi Andy - when I import midi into Capatain Chords I can't select the notes via CTRL A or just select everything to move the imported notes to the right position. THX
This is bloody great. I can't wait to sink my teeth into it.
That's awesome. Have fun 🤩
I bought Captain "suite" yesterday and can say this is quite a piece of innovative music creation software! Learning curve is easy for a newbie like me thanks to a very intuitive interface. Andy, your tutorial is outstanding, very clear, thank you! Just one question: I have not been able to see how it is possible to cut or divide/slice a chord (just one, not the whole progression) in smaller pieces. How to do this please? I will of course watch all your other tuto's, perhaps I'll find there.
Actually, I think I found it in Rythm section ==> Categories ==> Blocks, there I found what I was looking for, but was still unable to apply this to only 1 chord, and not the entire progression
Great question. There is a way of doing that. When you click on “Rhythm” on the footer menu, and hover your mouse over to the rhythm name on that section, you will see an option to “split” the rhythm. When you do that, just select which section you want to change the rhythm of, and select the rhythm you want on the menu that will pop up. Let me know if that helps :)
@@mixedinkey Thank you for your swift response Andy, yes that helps, and the result is fantastic, one can really do anything with Captain Epic! I am on it for hours now, fascinated, and just can't unplug from it!
Hi, how can I turn of that Notes in Captain melody been Auto populated when I change choards in Captain Choards?
I upgraded sóme time ago to Captain Chords Epic (PC), but the version I have doesn't have the same functionality as in your tutorials. F.inst no Velocity tab, and I can't split the rhythm in the Rhythm tab. Weird since it's supposed to be the latest versiom.
You are correct. The tutorial used the Mac version, the Windows version is still catching up on some of the features, so you will have both Velocity and Rhythm Split functionalities soon 🙏
@@mixedinkey I see the rhythm section for the chords but i cant select different rhythm for each chord.
Am i missing something?
when are you gonna add the sections back that the original captain plugins had across the top of the screens?
It's on our roadmap. We've been working on bringing some other features back (i.e. inversions has already been added back). We will work on complexity, strum, space, etc next. We have a brand-new feature that will be an amazing addition to the plugins as well. Then, we will work on the tabs. It will work even better than in version 5 🙂
@@mixedinkey awesome! I was just going to ask about the song arrangement tabs. I really love the new Chord Progressions, Rhythm, and the new Phaseplant synths are actually useable in a final track now not just a placeholder sound. Please continue with the "Favorite" button for presets too, I'd love to see that come over to Cpt. Epic Drums too for the kits and the patterns.
Thank you for this very useful overview. You saved me a lot of time by demonstrating how to use all the new features. I think the many added functionalities are well worth the cost of the upgrade and worth the slight pain of adjusting to the mechanics of the revised interface.
FWIW, I rarely used the tabs and felt they were distracting. I think they got rid of them on purpose? Ideally, it would be an option you could toggle!
Regardless, this suite of tools continues to be the best value I have ever seen in a plug-in that wasn't free!🤘
So cool, but Captain Play in Midi keyboard mode, doesn't seem to work for me, only computer keyboard. Any idea on what's going on??
Thank you for the feedback, we're looking into it - we'll get it fixed. -Yakov
SOLD (upgrade- I was holding-off) “Epic” is well deserved. Now it seems to be a really truely useful (in every track/ permanent template addition) plugin. BTW this video should have been put-out day one of the release. Looking forward to more videos. I would like to see how people are using this in conjunction with Scaler 2.5 (which everyone has or needs to get). I can see them working well together.
We had some delays on making the video because we were still working on some UI changes (we still are), so we had to wait a bit to screenrecord the latest version with the new features added. We will be making new videos as well. I think we are dropping one today, in fact 🙂
I'm really enjoying the upgrade to Epic. I find it much easier to use. Can we have a tutorial on how to make good versus and choruses that compliment each other. When I start in verse I end up with what should be a chorus and I don't what to do to vary them.
Noted! 🙂
It's been a long time since I bought the OG, but do you remember lifetime upgrades like I do?
Make one the relative major and the other the relative minor. So Am and C major for example. Or D major and Bm. You can do this with modes also. Also try a higher melody in the chorus, the bridge to the chorus can have the melody climbing up to get ready for it. And finally, try changing the rate of chord changes, e.g. one per bar to two per bar.
Firstly, is there a way to use the old versions with the new versions, as I saw in several tutorials?
Next, there are 4 things that I think should be going on from a first impression (excuse me if these are all available already bcuz I didn't get thru the videos on Epic yet. (My eyes aren't the best, so when I watch tutorials I can't always see what's happening.)
1) There really should be access to that old list of chords - it can be useful and should be added to, not eliminated. (This same thing applies to the old bass rhythms [ Edit, actually for the most part I think in Deep the names are the same or similar but it is missing in Capt'n Chords]
(The helpful nature of a tree hierarchy becomes a hindrance when you can't see the whole hierarchy but can only see the top level. Whereas with the chord progress, or those clever names along several pages the names serve to become familiar. Both approaches have their advantage.
2) I find immediately that there should be a "move playhead to cursor (modified by snap-to-grid behavior of current setting perhaps, or possibly more effectively simply snapping to the nearest bar or half bar). I know this is in conflict with the function of following the DAW playhead. XLN Audio's XO for example, solves this by letting the user de-couple the vst (disable the tempo sync so that tempo is handled internally in the vst. I assumed that would be in Epic, but I'm not seeing it. Having that option would be essential to composing, since when composing beyond one's skills on an instrument, I think one typically needs to audition 1-2 bars or less at a time - and Epic is now requiring to cycle the whole progression (unless there's a loop narrowing feature - like setting loop markers in the DAW - I don't see that.
2a) When I am previewing the music I've written and I double click to add a note while zoomed in, it adds the note, but unzooms me and I have to scroll back to where I was to continue editing-auditioning.
3) There should be an "audio preview of note clicked on" feature very definitely as well.
(I'm in Captain Deep at the moment, and I don't think there's a way to raise./lower velocity of individual notes - maybe that feature is there or coming soon? Its actually of lesser importance than other things, since I could always edit the velocity of the bass notes in the DAW as MIDI. Composing the notes of the chords and the notes of the bass are more important than there velocities for me.)
4) I'm pretty sure this is already possible, but I've got Captain Chords linked to Captain Deep, and when I fix the octaves of the chords to match the new sound I've chosen, Deep thinks its supposed to follow the octave, whereas I already had been satisfied with the octave that Deep was playing at. I'm not seeing a lock button to prevent that (I don't think it applies the other way around, so I don't think a lock button is needed in Captain Chords, but it seems necessary in Deep). Is there some way to keep the bass from following the changes to chord octaves?
(I believe there used to be a way to back up work. The idea is that, suppose I'm doing some chords and adding a bit of arrpeggio idea to one bar. Lets say I then apply some different rhythm Ideas. If I don't export the idea into the DAW, I can't revert to the original idea when I realize that applying some particular rhythm deletes the arpeggio (It can be a bit unpredictable if you don't know the rhythm until after you select it. ) It would be nice to have undo levels, or simple the old way where every time you get happy with something you just save the preset. )
Good work Mixed In Key! I will let you know my other thoughts but I'm glad you're plowing forward. I actually spent quite a bit on Tracktion Waveform 9 or 10 when they first introduced a Chord track and similar features to captain deep and so forth. However you guys kept developing whereas they seem to have chosen abandonment (although I acknowledge that they probably were busy trying to equal the Studio One stuff which includes audio as well as MIDI - can't knock 'em cuz that's ridiculously complicated). From what I can tell, Studio One's chord track feature, in terms of MIDI, is still very clunky - we need you guys to excel in this particular niche, so keep going!
Hey, I am really sorry about the lack of reply on this. I think your comment got stuck in our RUclips "auto-moderation" queue for no apparent reason, and I didn't read it until now. Thankfully, it didn't get lost completely, and it's published now (plus we turned off that auto-moderation feature on RUclips, because it randomly hid some comments that it shouldn't have. my apologies!!)
To answer your feedback publicly:
1. Yes, I agree. I think we can bring back the list of chords - but with a better user interface. It's on our todo list and I'm planning to get that done.
2. You're right on this. We've been experimenting with that feature for about a month now, and I think we're getting somewhere with it. We already tried at least 3 or 4 different ways to sync with the DAW and what you're describing is likely the best option.
2a. Is this on Windows or Mac? I tried on Windows and it seemed to be OK.
3. You're right. There is one on Captain Melody (on Windows, at least) but not on Chords. I'm surprised, we'll add that in. I think Velocity just got re-added in a recent build, so that should be available now.
4. I am not sure it's possible to prevent Captain Deep from reacting to Chords in such a specific way, but the idea to "lock notes" in Chords and Deep has been suggested a few times. We're considering it.
Thank you for all your feedback. It's awesome. And sorry again for the delay - RUclips's comment algorithm totally broke on our channel. -Yakov
@@mixedinkey On 2a actually I am in WIndows. Keep in mind that the playhead is rolling when I do this. I don't think it is an issue when the playhead (DAW playback) isn't rolling.
I really appreciate your getting back to me. I'm not in any rush, your answers were great. But one thing, could you please respond to my issue above (a separate comment I left a day or so later) regarding the issue of when Epic or the original version of Captain Chords assigns the wrong chord, and by using Custom Chord feature, and changing the name of the chord, it triggers Captain chords to put in its own version of those notes. In other words, its unpredictable in this case - where you as the user have the right notes, but Captain Chords just has a wrong name (e.g. the track is basically using Am7 but Captain Chords wants it to be a C6 - sorry for that basic example - the real issue that was proving such a problem was dealing with a case where it had assigned A Maj 11 when I was building the track around that chord being a DMaj7. (Deep, being instructed that it is an A, emphasizes the major 3rd of A (C#), which was a dissonant Maj7 tone of the D Maj7, which has a P5 of D, that wants to resolve to D, and a Major third (F#.) that is the Maj 6 degree of A, and acts as a root (being a P5 down) of C#, the 3rd of A. Bass players don't get enough credit. Making proper bass lines and sensing the more proper chord tone rootings is a highly advanced subject when verbalized. Bass players build this sense of language around it - it should be possible for Captain Chords and Captain Deep to emulate that skill, but its important to let the user correct a mis-perception. It won't affect pop music build strictly on triads, but it will affect soul music, gospel music, hip hop, blues, jazz, etc.
why does nothing say about looping it says one thing where you click It on and off. that still doesn't help when it keeps looping after 4 beats. how can I resolve this? ive been at this for just over an hour now.
Nice tutorial Andy but....
The removing of the tabs, to layout your song Verse, chorus etc is a big reduction in workflow. Yes you can drop to your DAW but what if you want to tweak the original pattern/chord and you have deleted it and moved on to your next part? (and it's a pain in FL studio due to a lack of linear timeline in the channel view).
Also the first ever plugin not to work with reaper? I have had to download bandlab to use this plugin properly.
Hey Michael, we've removed the Chords/Verse, etc tabs from this first Epic upgrade because we wanted to improve them. It's been worked on right now, and the new tabs will work even better than they did on version 5 🙌
Regarding Reaper, I belive the plugins should be working fine with it. Can you please shoot us an email at contact@mixedinkey.com with more info on the issues you are having with it? We will help you troubleshoot it from there 🙂
GEE THAT SONG ON THE BE MORE MELLOW PRESET ...WOOW !!!
I love that preset too :)
should i buy again epic version if I have already captain chords? or just update the previous version?
If have version 5, we can hook you up with an amazing upgrade deal. You can find it here: mixedinkey.com/captain-plugins/epic-upgrade/
Hey Andy, I have to ask this (actually anyone can reply if they know an answer), I have been using this program since it's first version and something that is driving me absolutely crazy because of my lack of music theory is why the second row of chords in Captain Chords displays chords that are NOT in the key I have selected, I realize that these chord "suggestions" are to swap your currently selected chord with a variation, however is there a way to turn off all chords that contain notes that are NOT in my current key ? For instance in CC I pick Am and then the second row gives a swap choice of Amaj ?!!! I mean, I can't use any of the second row chords at this point because I don't know how many sour notes each chord contains. I really would rather know what chord alternatives and "safe"; ones that will add complexity, but stay in my selected key, this has been driving me absolutely crazy for 3 years and I find myself using EX Keys2 more since it only gives alternatives in your current key.
Hi Andy, I just purchased the upgrade! I was wondering: Is there still a way to use the "strum" function (especially when playing the chords on the laptop keyboard)
Why do my chords change octaves when I try to change to rhythm of a specific chord??
Great demo Andy!
Thank you. Andy is great 😊
Will you add a value readout to the velocity settings? I like to have more control over my velocity settings by looking at numbers. Thx
Thanks for your suggestion. I will add it to our Wishlist :)
Is the backing 4/4 Beat from Captain Beat?! Good tutorial.
Sure is! :)
In the 5 version i can select section (Verse) and (Chorus) but in the Epic version i do not see those options.... How i can create verse and chorus and bridge with same progression?
We temporarily removed them on Captain Epic, but we are bringing them back soon. The new tabs will work even better than the ones we have on version 5 🙂
@@mixedinkey Super! Please let me know when the new tabs are out to start working.... Thank you 😁👍
Just upgraded and like a lot of what you have done, but the lack of songs sections is definitely taking away from the over all work flow.
Aaron that's coming back soon, with a different user interface and some major improvements. Stay tuned. -Yakov
Excellent! Thank you
Hopefully saving chord progressions will come back with the reintroduction of tabs. I suggest adding drag & drop to midi import would be a time saver. A fine upgrade though.😉
Exactly right. Both "Save Preset" and reintroduction of tabs are coming. The drag-and-drop is on the todo list as well, but just a slightly lower priority since "Import MIDI" button does a similar thing. Appreciate your feedback, thanks Jack
The demo verson on the site also asking for activation code. no chance to test.
We don't have a demo version on our website, you need to purchase a license to use it :)
Hi guys, awesome software! Quick question: in CC Epic, is there a song section option like in Captain chords 5 with intro, verse, prechorus, chorus, bridge, drop??? --- I know all the sections approach is a little more singer songwriter -- but its coming back in RnB, neo soul etc.....only 3 or 4 chords is maybe getting -- or will be -- not enough or even lazy ? :-)
We removed the tabs temporarily, but we will be bringing them back. The new version of the tabs will be even more awesome than the ones we had in version 5 🚀
@@mixedinkey awesome to hear guys!! Loving making my way through epic -- it really is a giganto-normous idea stimulator!!
How to use it with GarageBand ? The window for captain chord doesn't load up. Can anyone help ?
ALERT to ALL: There is no "Rhythm Tap" in Captain Chords Epic as visible in this video. We are expecting this video to be re-edited, an announcement of this exclusion and / or hopefully an update that provides this VERY USEFUL function.
Unless they fix this, I'm getting a refund. It's stupid not to include it. I can't see any record at all
Does this only work with their onboard sounds or can I use this to generate chords with my Kontakt or omnisphere instruments ?
You can use external VST instruments as well. You can either route it to your VST (we have some tutorials inside the plugin on how to do that depending on your DAW), or you can use the Plugins tab inside Captain and choose your VST plugin and presets from there :)
Made sure I was on the latest version. There is no velocity tab, and in the rythm tab I don't get the icons to split or delete when I hover the mouse over a section. It only lets me change the rythm preset for the entire section. I am using Cubase. I am guessing the version you used for this video hasn't been released quite yet.
The Windows version is catching up to Mac, there are a few features missing that are coming back to it soon. You're right that those specific things are not on Windows right now but will be in the future. We're on it. -Yakov
@@mixedinkey Excellent!!!🙂
Thanks for your kind post but I can only give it 9.9/10. Why? You speak to fast for me to understand what you are saying without rewinding.
Best wishes Captain Plugins, may success be yours! 👋
if i want to use a note that isn't in key how can i do this?
If you look at the bottom right of the UI, you will see a little 🔍 icon where you can change it from scale view to Normal view. If you use the normal view, you can enter any notes on the canvas, including out-of-scale notes. Let me know if it helps :)
I find it very strange that there are so many midi chord plugins on the market, yet no one seems to be doing anything with AI behind the scenes.
To me, this one is just like all the others. What would actually be useful is if someone made something like Steinberg chord track into a midi plugin.
THAT'S how you write lightning fast chord progressions on e.g. a bus ride home with a laptop and no midi keyboard.
Because - after you choose your initial chord, Steinberg give you a choice of chords for the next chord that actually FITS. Then the next one will easily fit and follow on from the second. It's not just giving a bunch of chords one can play in a scale, it's actually MUSICAL. I am not really explaining it properly and it has to be used to really be understood. It's an actual ASSISTANT. The other plugins are just so simple that you can't create those beautiful non typical progressions like you can with Steinberg.
Seriously, buy Cubase elements for $99 (and less when on sale), it will work out so much cheaper and do absolutely everything that all these plugins do but a lot better.
The beauty is that the cheapest cubase has the full chord track features, so even if you don't want to use it as a DAW, just create your chords and export as midi file, DONE.
Hi, where has the timing option go? It was really useful though.
We removed it on the Epic update, we will consider bringing it back in the future, for sure :)
why is there no detect chords by audio or midi like in scaler? exporting a track to midi to import it again over the explorer only is a waste of time. or at least add drag and drop from the daw.
Sorry if this is obvious. But does the blue/yellow/green/red colour on the chords signify anything?
Yep. Red = Major Chords. Blue = Minor Chords. Green = dimished chords 🙂
This isnt related to Chords but I was wondering where the "allow Polyphony" is in Melody.
Will it come later in pc version?
Thank you for noticing, we missed that one. I'll ask the team to put that on the todo list and it'll come back in a free update. There's no reason for that checkbox to be missing.
@@mixedinkey any update on this?
I have found this first tutorial (for me), interesting but puzzling. At the start, you said; if you are not familiar with Captain plugins, don't worry, I'll start from the beginning. Now I like to reproduce tutorials as exactly as they sound. I find it helps me to understand the tutorial more easily. When I heard the first sounds, I couldn't work out where the drums came from and you didn't explain. I now presume that the drums came from Captain Beat. Is this true? Otherwise, a very good tutorial. Thank you.
Yes, the beat in the background is from Captain Beat indeed :)
Thank you.
Any chance you'll be adding the verse, chorus, drop tabs from the original version? Would hate to have to open multiple instances to keep my chord progressions of each section nice and neat.
Yes we'll be adding that. They won't be tabs, but different "Workspaces" with full renaming capability. We're working on it now.
@@mixedinkey Wonderful. Thank you for the response. Can't wait!
What's the difference between captain chords and the pilot plugins ?
There are big differences between them, but at the end of the day they work together. You can use Captain Chords together with Pilot Melody and Pilot Arpeggio. In our view, Captain is more like Photoshop that gives you lots of control over the big canvas where you can edit the MIDI notes and use lots of tools. Pilot is more like an analog synthesizer where you tweak knobs and get great melodies as a result. It's a new category of instrument because this has never existed before... I guess we'd call it a "knob-to-MIDI" workflow :)
Did I hear that right, Captain Chords Epic will transpose any MIDI file to the key your working in?
Yes. That's correct. When you import a MIDI file, you get the options to import it on the original key or transpose the key to the one you are working in your Captain Chords Epic project 😎
@@mixedinkey That's a great feature, it will give my MIDI collection a new lease of life, endless possibilities!! 👍
@@EmpiricalMind Most DAWs can transpose MIDI though. For instance there's an option for global transpose in FL Studio.
@@jesussaddle wasn't aware of that good to know thanks!!
@@EmpiricalMind No problem - I just learned about that Global transpose feature in FL Studio a couple of weeks ago in someone's video.
What would be amazing is if captain chords can be played with a melody at the same time so it gives a more humanistic feel
Can you please elaborate on that? I am not sure I understood 100% of what you meant :)
hey, we haven't tested it on Dedkadance 2 software, but I will add it to out To-Do list and see if there is any workaround for getting your MIK results into that software :)
The way captain chords are set
When I want to play chords I’m only limited to playing chords
I’m not able to play a chord with a melody simultaneously like pianists do
I have to play chords then go create a melody separately
The complexity button doesn't even work on mine. I can't call this an upgrade. I wish is was geared only towards electronic dance music cause theres quite a lot of horrible rhythm presets. Not to mention some of them turns them into melodies and erases some of the chords. I guess I gotta lock them maybe? It's honestly more screwed up than before. It ran pretty smooth before Epic. Why don't these type of plugins come with common chord progressions? OMG and when I change the lengths of the chords it adds a completely new chord. Yeah I'm out. Gonna try Scaler 2 I got it for iOS and at least that has some common chord progressions. Seriously go listen to some of your own presets and tell me they're good. Like David Bennett puts out videos called common chord progressions and they're so common that they should all be in there yet all we get are these bunk progressions no one uses. Some of the presets don't even make rhythmic sense.
Please bring back the rhythms from captain deep 5. The ones under the *New category were fresh
Woohoo finally someone who liked the "New" category :) Thank you! I appreciate that because I worked hard on those for Captain 5 :) I'll see if we can make a special "vintage" bank of those
The "new" will be the "new vintage" now :D
It's only playing a single grid. What could I be doing wrong?
Are you using FL Studio? By default, FL Studio has only 1 measure, so loop points of 0 and 4 are set, so only the first measure would be played in the plugin.
You have to put Fl Studio in 'Song' mode, go to pattern and extend a Midi Clip to the number of bars you want.
Let me know if it helps :)
Where did the verse/chorus buttons go?
We temporarily removed them on this Epic version, but they are making a comeback very soon. We wanted to improve the tabs before adding it to this version. So, the new tabs will work even better than they did on version 5 :)
Hi does it work with Garage band ?
I think so, although I haven't personally tested it in a while. Does anyone else know?
Hello everything is fine? Is Ocaptain Chord Epic different from normal?
Yes. There are tons of differences between version 5 and the latest Epic. Here are some examples:
- Pianistic Playing functionality will make your chord progressions sound instantly better.
- New Styles for chords, basslines, and melodies based on genres.
- Import MIDI to Captain Chords.
- PhasePlant presets to give you the perfect timbre for your sounds.
- Full MIDI Editing for Captain Deep.
- Captain Deep now features Play Styles, similar to Captain Chords, but specifically for basslines.
- Brand-new user interface for a faster workflow.
- And 200+ more.
@@mixedinkey Oww thankss
Does this work with Pro Tools Ultimate for Windows / PC yet?
It works via BlueCat Audio Patchwork :)
This is a very helpful video, but is it really a "full walkthrough"?! As someone who has never used Captain plugins before and just bought epic yesterday I am finding that most tutorials on RUclips make any sense since the interface is quite different. Is there a manual for epic? Great product potentially but coming from Scaler 2 I am really struggling to find my way with CC epic. Thanks.
Hey Robert, thanks for your feedback. We really appreciate it. Can you please give us more info on the things you are struggling in when trying to use the plugins? We are working on a full how-to-guide for Captain Epic. Hopefully, we will have everything done very soon 🙏
@@mixedinkey actually I think I have worked it out. I was looking at the older version videos and thinking that there must be a way to access the verse / chorus tabs but now I understand that these are not (currently) part of epic. Thanks for taking the time to reply though. I appreciate it.
Is it possible to change time signatures in this new version? Like switching to 3/4, 6/8, 8/4?
Not yet. It was taking us a while to launch the new version and adding time signatures would have created a further delay since we didn’t have special-made presets for 3/4, etc. We decided to wait until we have time to tackle the preset-making first.
@@mixedinkey Oh Cool. Time signatures would push Captain to being a permanent part of my workflow. I can't wait. Thanks for answering.
I've read that Captain Chords requires constant internet connection. Is that still true?
Yes, that's correct. All our plugins and software does :)
I need your help Andy. I'm lost. The Captain Chords Epic plugin decided to name all of 3 bars of a four bar progression as the chord A Major 13 or something like this. I went back to a file I had backed up in my DAW. But it still thinks the 1st 3 half notes are an A Major chord. The 2nd half note is D, F#, C#, F#. To my mind this is a D Maj7., not an A Major. (I see how it jumped to calling it an A Maj13 now - I guess). My goal here is to somehow get the correct chords listed so that the bass line fits the chord harmony better. Since D (the actual chord) conflicts with the function of an A Major Chord (I know there is a D and there is a C sharp, so maybe the program is thinking this is some sort of A 11th, the intervals relative to A are the 11th, the Major 3rd, and 2 occurrences of 13th, but since there's no A here it is wrong to build the harmony as being A- if it were a momentary Sus function it would normally have the interval 5 half steps above the root, but momentarily omit the interval 4 half steps above the root, it wouldn't have both, AND omit the root (in this case it has been assumed by the program to be an A - I hope I'm making sense although I know this is pretty deep - I'll contact tech support :D.). In early versions of Captain Chord I think the Custom Chords feature didn't "follow the chords" that well. But hopefully that is resolved. The problem though now, is that when I try to split the 2nd half note from the 1st and the third, it changes the chord (and if I make a custom chord it also changes the chord, which is ALSO what I need help understanding. My thought was that Custom chords could be used to fix these times when the Captain Chords program is doing something strange (because in the past couple of days I've seen it do this, and it affected the bass line in a not so great way. But I don't want to change the chord notes, I want to keep the chord notes and change the name, so that it produces a better bass line. Is that possible? Cheers!
Hey, can you drop us an email to contact@mixedinkey.com and we'll help you with this? YT isn't ideal for tech support. :)
Can someone help me?
hey, can you please shoot us an email at contact@mixedinkey.com and refer to this? We will be able to troubleshoot it faster from there :)
@@mixedinkey I did but I haven't heard back.
Hi - where is the Chords Complexity Button ...?🙄 And the Strum Function ...???
We removed them temporarily, but they are making a come back soon. We want to improve both of these features, so they will be even more powerful in Captain Epic :)
@@mixedinkey THX and good luck. VST is great!
On your RUclips channel, we can't activate subtitles on most of your videos. As I am French, I can understand English in writing, but very badly in speaking. Can you make an effort for that?
Sincerely,
Yes. We will try our best to add subtitles on future videos, for sure :)
You've gotten rid of the sections (Verse, Pre Chorus, Chorus, Drop). Why is that? It was a cool feature in the old Captain Plugins.
We are adding them back. We temporarily removed them because we wanted to make some improvements. So, the new tabs will work even better than they did in version 5 🙂
@@mixedinkey oh, that's great news =)
Hey there, does it work with apple m1?
yeah, we have M1 native versions for Captain Plugins Epic, Pilot Plugins, and Mixed In Key Studio Edition. More to come ;)
Will in run in Reason 12?
Reason DAW is not officially supported, but it should be working fine. You have a 30-day money back guarantee on your purchase. If it's not working the way you expected, just shoot us an email and we will refund your money :)
What about time signature and tempo? Can it be adjusted?
The tempo is adjusted based on the one set in your DAW project. Regarding time signatures, it works in 4/4. We definitely want to add more time signature options in the future, but we don't have an ETA for it yet :)
@@mixedinkey I realized that this major requirement is not met (immediately after purchasing it yesterday). Would appreciate if this enhancement is on the cards in the forthcoming upgrades. As many of my compositions could be in odd time signatures like 6/8, 7/8, 5/4, the product may not work for me
can you bring in native instruments sound library into odesi?
We will keep that in mind when we work on new Odesi updates in the future 🙂
How do you write a melody from an existing song ?
I think we need to make an in-depth tutorial about that. My personal workflow is to put the acapella of the song I want to remix into my DAW, run that song through Mixed In Key 10 (or Mixed In Key Live, when I'm on my Mac) to find the key. Once the key is found, I usually open Captain Chords set to the same key, and start clicking [+] to add new chords. I click around the Magic Buttons at the top of the screen to hear what different chords sound like, and I pick something I like. Once my chord progression sounds interesting, I apply different rhythms to it, and play around with different basslines to find a good choice as well. That's my general workflow - but we can explain it better in a video, if you'd like.
@@mixedinkey cool 😎
Just upgraded and whilst the new features seem great I am getting very regular crashes, particularly on Captain chords. Everything is updated and my machine is comfortably specced up so this is a little confusing. Currently it's unusable for me tbh as once its crashed you can no longer access the VST within the project. So I got pretty far into some tracks which have needed to be restarted from scratch which is obviously frustrating. Not sure if this is happening for anyone else but its very frequent for me.
Hey Paul, sorry to hear that ;/ can you please shoot us an email with that crash report? We will make sure to have our developers take a look into this and get it fixed ASAP 🙏
@@mixedinkey Of course yep I can do that. Just to confirm tho the product is awesome and the new features are a big improvement - just need to figure out the crashes :)
There are so many critical bugs
Cannot adjust window size as well happen freezing issue after selecting chord (i'm using it on m1 mac)
View your comments from another profile later. They remove the ones they don't like. Your warning to other customers will be hidden from everyone but you so you won't know it.
@@TonyByte Really? They're control customer's comment?
I gonna keep checking, If they deleted it, gonna keep posting on and one and on.
@@2reason4life Yes, I've even tested it. They leave select ones they choose. Even if they leave my comments here, you will find that they won't deny this because we can screenshot it. Otherwise, this will simply disappear as "inappropriate".
@@TonyByte Btw, what kinda bugs you have in captain epic?
@@2reason4life Actually, I just commented about them removing features and going backwards, only making basic triad progressions. Nothing I said wasn't fact though.
Não sei se seria com vcs, mas ficaria legal se disponibilizassem legendas em português. Obrigado.
Vamos trabalhar nisso :)
why cant i get it to go pass to bars
Are you using FL Studio?
No Trial ? I've spent much money on software but have always been given a trial. I'm not buying blind, I'll trial Scaler 2 via Plugin Boutique
We don't have a trial version, but you do have a 30-day money-back guarantee on your purchase. If you are not happy with the plugins, just shoot us an email and we will refund 100% of your money. No questions asked :)
no strum or swing knobs??
We have a strum feature on the latest update. We are working on having Swing back as well :)
@@mixedinkey you guys are awesome for replying to every comment, thanks for listening to feedback and very happy with the plugin!
just wondering, where can we find this strum knob?
Mind blowing 😊
Thanks a lot 😊
@@mixedinkey most welcome 😊
Wheres Humanize gone please?
Are you using the Windows version? If so, we are working on getting the Humanize feature implemented on Windows as well. It's one of our top priorities on the Windows team 🙂
Omg then after it screws up all my chords from changing the length I discovered that when you draw a note it doesn't remember the length of the last note you selected so you have to go in and shorten the length manually. That's basic functionality what is this amateur hour? Was this plugin built by non professional musicians? As in people who don't even play music professionally? Thanks for the downgrade. Holy crap man I've discovered several more issues. Anyway I could please get a refund? Also why did you take away the Audio Export feature?
I don’t understand why you guys spend so much effort in built in sounds. While i use them for basic writing i ALWAYS USE a dedicated plugin as the sound source and just use the midi from the captains plugins. Unless you create a deep and dedicated synth id rather have you developing features like rhythms and chord libraries.
Thank you. WTF?
We're focusing on rhythms and chord libraries now. I personally like having good "stock sounds" because they make me happy, so that's why we spent some time on doing that. I don't want to make a crappy-sounding plugin because it wouldn't bring me as much joy to use. By the way, I also use Serum, Phase Plant, Kontakt, and Diva, so I know what you mean about dragging MIDI from Captain to other sources. But I still want the starting point to sound good. -Yakov
@@mixedinkey gotcha. The stock sounds you used to have I thought were actually fine for that. I mostly used the piano or some strings. I was using it yesterday along with ORB. I exported my chords from Captain chords and imported into ORB which has a different randomizing feature. I ended up with some interesting alternate patterns that i wouldn’t t have come across just using captains. I used them along with the chords and baseline i generated from Captains.
When is it to roll out native support for apple silicon..
Captain Epic comes with M1 native compatibility 😎
@@mixedinkey No need to use rosseta anymore. right?
@@2reason4life Exactly. No more Rosetta needed, it runs natively on the latest M1 Macs and it's really fast.
For me, it's a disappointing "upgrade" (?). The heart of this plugin was removed instead of expanding. No complex chords (already needed work), no progression library easily accessible. Where are the next level sounding chord progressions better than the last version? I'm told these things will be back and better. It's odd to release it before then when clearly users will expect the new features to be additions and enhancements. Please get back to BETTER Chords and progressions in Captain CHORDS. Take the triad progressions to new pro levels and ideas, and also not just the simple inversions like now but full chords used in todays EDM, pop, etc.. Auto. Shouldn't we load a progression and think, "WOW, that sounds full, pro, and amazing!"? Not, "this needs a lot of work and tweaking to make this pro and radio ready. Glad I have all of these nifty DAW-like editing features, rhythms and new synth sounds." Arpeggios, patterns, sounds etc. amateur chords. Strange priority in Captain CHORDS. A new & usable version does not exist in my mind, just hope for this beta version of ideas made for progressions that don't exist.
I think Yakov, our President, replied to your email. So, hopefully, he was able to clarify everything for you :)
@@mixedinkey Yakov is an extremely patient and kind person. They show interest in taking all feedback, good and bad, and express a desire to use it for a better product. Although it doesn't change my mind about what I wrote, I do hope things turn around and get back to chord progressions first, then enhanced with patterns and other features. Otherwise, you simply have a pattern maker with nice sounds. People purchased for chords and progressions , that is a fact because patterns did not even exist. Obviously, they will want to take those chords and make patterns with them and the other requested features. Obviously, there will be positive feedback from people who who see patterns and better sounds. However, these are the same people who purchased for the chords first or they must prefer a pattern maker for their manual progressions. So when Yakov replies that clearly you can see positive feedback, it just boggles my mind for that to be a response to complaining that the heart of the plugin was removed. Chord progression. There will not be one customer who believes chord progressions should be the last priority and the least valued. Making patterns and sounds the priority by removing the core features does not make sense no matter how it is explained. As nice as you all are, it just seems that if this was not understood, I don't see a promising future of priorities for what Captain Chords used to be anytime soon. The way inversions were added back, if that is complete, doesn't improve them or clarify anything at all. It's a step backwards not even saying what inversion it is like it did before. I just don't get what you are trying to do. However, that's my opinion and it's not my plugin. I wish you all good luck.
omg not for ios?
odesi
Shame there's no cinematic / orchestral bank
We will still be adding more banks in future updates, so we will definitely keep this in mind when we do 🙂
I BOUGHT IT FOR MYSELF FOR THE STUDIO. WHILE I UNDERSTAND THE DETAILS
Let us know if you need any help with it. We will be happy to help :)
@@mixedinkey Thanks!
This great …🙏🏿🙏🌪🌪🌪🌪🎩🦄🧘♂️
too bad this is not a free update you know? i mean it brings some nice features but just would have bee nice if they had made it a FREE update for all plugin users. it doesnt seem all that much diffrent from five other then some interface changes i mean you had a chard seolection tool in 5 lol ok so i guess beter arrangement of chords and more rythem options i see. main thing is has deep been updated much...
Hey, thanks for your feedback! We introduced a small fee for the Epic update to support its development. We've added advanced features and significantly improved Chord, Deep, Melody, and Beat plugins. This charge helps us keep innovating while ensuring high-quality. Remember, the upgrade is optional. We've tried to keep it affordable, valuing our loyal users. Thanks for your understanding and support! :) In fact, we are already on version 7, which we just released to the public yesterday, here is more info on it: mixedinkey.com/captain-plugins/epic-upgrade/
Then your music sounds like every one elses if you are using the same chords
Please show a serious project. From zero to the end of the project. I think this plugin was not developed for writing children's songs. It needs explanations for many things. For example full synchronization with the project grid in the DAW. And then the plugin lives by its own laws are not tied to the project. Show how to do it on a more serious example, not on a children's song. Make paid lessons. I think there will be those who will buy them. I'll be the first to buy.Thank you.
Looks like garage band
Stop trying to make this like a synth, so much of the stuff added is confusing and cumbersome for no reason. Keep it as a compositional tool, so ridiculous.
And youre charging for this?? Unreal, most of the stuff added shouldve been day one
They went backwards. Removed what little power it had. Enjoy your triad generator.
To pave the road for the future updates, we had to change the way Captain Chords was developed so it can be improved. The old version saw everything as "block chords" where all the notes were played at the same time. It had lots of cool rhythms, but it wasn't capable of playing arpeggios, and it wasn't able to add decorations or ear-candy notes. The new version is capable of that, and more. It took us a while to change the audio engine and the pianistic chord engine, but that work is behind us. Now we can focus on making it the best composition tool, just like you said. We aren't limited by the old software code anymore - the new one is easier for us to expand, and we can actually create all the compositional tools that we've always wanted to make. In regards to your ideas - what was confusing or cumbersome? Please let me know, I'm looking for feedback. Post here, or email privately at contact@mixedinkey.com. Thanks! -Yakov
@@mixedinkey Okay but arps, humanizing, "ear candy notes", etc. can all be done just in the daw midi after i drag it in, and its way easier to do it that way. The UI should show almost nothing but ideas for chords and notes. It hardly matters how theyre played and sound outside of basics that keep it simple. No one wants so much extra crap on the UI, and things to remember and tabs, etc, etc.
if you guys are gonna give tutorials give in depth tutorial. you showed nothing or mention anything about how to change the bars from repeating the same two bars you just jumped straight into what you already had recorded. dont put walkthrough/tutorial when you dont cover everything
Are you using FL Studio? By default, FL Studio has only 1 measure, so loop points of 0 and 4 are set, so only the first measure would be played in the plugin.
You have to put Fl Studio in 'Song' mode, go to pattern and extend a Midi Clip to the number of bars you want 🙂
Does this work with Pro Tools Ultimate for PC yet?
It works via BlueCat Audio Patchwork :)