Chromatic Planing - Child's Play With Synfire

I haven't used chromatic planing myself yet, so I wondered how that could be done with Synfire. It turned out to be so super easy that I wanted to share this with you as a quick tip for your inspiration.

For those not familiar with the term, chromatic planing (or chord planing) is a composing technique that uses a series of chords that are transposed by chromatic steps, usually moving by half tone steps up and/or down. Obviously, this totally goes out of key. It adds tension, color and mistery and is commonly used in film scores and jazz.

Simply use Chromatic in Global Parameters and you are done. Really, that's all. And the greatest of all things is that not only does that transpose chords, it also transposes all other instruments and thus keeps them all in harmony no matter how extreme the chromatic shifts.

Here's how to do it.

It's just one simple example with sustained chords in 1/4 steps. These are the chords.

This is a Chromatic parameter sketched in Global Parameters.

And this is what you get as Output. The many red colored notes indicate out-of-scale notes.

And this is what it sounds like. Again, this is a very simple example done in literally three minutes, just to illustrate the idea.