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This could be an expansion on the auto-chord feature, simply adding a filter for the notes from the progression the auto-chord instrument derives its notes from.
Say you set an instrument to auto-chord, now you'd have an extra option of selecting 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th note from the progression and this instrument would only play that note.
Voila.. a 4 part auto-chord track.
Set it to the instruments you want, for example Double bass, Cellos, Violas and Violins, or if you have Divisi instruments, set it to various instrument sections like 1st chair, a, b, c sections and you have auto divisi.
All that's needed is a note filter for the auto-chords track.
Tue, 2013-05-21 - 11:20 Permalink
You can see the notes on the keyboard from window/keyboard.
Of course you'd have to voice the chords to get what you wanted, easy to see just having the keyboard window open, hit 1,2,3,4 and shift+up/down very fast to voice every chord.
But this would make it a lot easier to quickly get a divisi part down instead of playing chords and then duplicating the instrument 4 times and deleting parts for each voice or writing by recording lines for each section.
Tue, 2013-05-21 - 16:33 Permalink
You can already do that: Use the purple "a" symbols. Each line on the grid stands for one note of the current auto-chord (first, second, third, etc)
The only problem is each instrument will generate different auto-chords, if their ranges differ.
Tue, 2013-05-21 - 17:59 Permalink
Ah yes, didn't even think of that.
But of course arpeggio would do exactly that, since an arpeggio is made from notes in the chord.
So for divisi sections this would work great as it is as the ranges would be the same for 1st chair, a, b, c sections of a single instrument, but not for different instruments, say Double bass, Cello, Viola, Violins as the ranges differ.
Gotta go play around with that..
Tue, 2013-05-21 - 18:02 Permalink
Hi there
alternatively i am using inserpizhere's midiPolyphony
for split polyphonic notes to the channels
(http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=300566)
Tue, 2013-05-21 - 18:45 Permalink
Hmm, can't get this to work.
Am I supposed to use auto-chord setting with the arp symbols for each instrument track, because that doesn't seem to work for me or I'm doing something wrong?
If it's just using the arp symbol for playing long notes to make up chords instead of normal arppeggios, then that won't work, because it completely ignores the inversions and range shifts (Shift+up/down arrow) I've created for the progression.