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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 - 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.
