doing chords & progressions the bitwig way
Added 2021-12-15 13:49:08 +0000 UTCa collection of things how i tackle some chords and progressions with the bitwig devices.
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Among the tricks I like to use: rotating chords, like the effect Robby Kilgore created on Michael Brecker’s Xpander. https://robbykilgore.com/harmonic-expansionism/ My own approach is a bit clunky. I stack multiple instances of the same synth. For each layer, I use a Steps (Sequence) module triggered by Note Advance to modulate the intervals in a Note Transpose module. Each sequence has a different length, so that the chords only repeat after a large number of times (the least common multiple of those sequence lengths). The reason I like this approach is that I can treat each voice independently, with its own FX. It also works well in legato, which is tricky with polyphony. Still, I’m sure you’d find a better way.
Alexandre Enkerli
2021-12-16 02:43:10 +0000 UTC
