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Question about inserting just your chord progression into a song

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Kind of tough question to explain but basically:

 

 

I came up with a progression in the pallette window.  I dragged that progression chord by chord into the song window (is there a faster way to do that?)...

 

Currently I have that chord progression in 1 instrument track arpeggiating, i have another instrument track playing the bassline.  I'm wondering how do i have an instrument  track that just plays the sustained chords i made up with no arpegiation? 

 

Thanks much in advance.


Mon, 2011-02-28 - 20:33 Permalink

Answer to 1st question - Go to chord progression, select 'All' All chords will be highlighted,then 'copy'. Go song arrangement - hit paste. Now chord progression will be displayed in the default instrument...

Thu, 2011-03-03 - 01:46 Permalink

Mark thanks much for the reply! That worked.  Supertonic you out there? Any clue on the second question?  Mark do you have any idea?

Thu, 2011-03-03 - 18:17 Permalink

I'm still very new with this program.  Just tried this and it works, there might be a better way, not familiar enough..

 

Open up a library, navigate to the libraries folder, select 'example phrases.coglib.  Create a new instrument in your arrangement, go back to library, open up 'misc' folder and click on 'auto-chords', (this is a phrase that consists of a whole note chord. Drag this to your empty track.  You should automatically get a GM pad voice, change this if you want. Now this will play with arrangement, blocking out each chord as progression changes.

 

I would imagine, you could also record the act of you playing a chord, or drawing it in. Saving that as a phrase and dragging into arrangement.  (This part I'm surmising, haven't plugged a MIDI keyboard in yet).  Good luck, Any tricks or insights you discover, post here. We can help each other to learn this elaborate piece of software faster.

 

Fri, 2011-03-04 - 17:32 Permalink

To get plain sustained chords, go to the Interpretation parameter and enable the Auto-Chords option. This will ignore all figures and render plain chords. Be sure you also enable Tie Notes and Legato.

Sun, 2011-03-27 - 22:11 Permalink

Thanks so much for the replies guys!  Sorry for the late response...was out of town.