Feel Your Sound: Sundog Song Studio and Melodic Flow
Feel Your Sound: Sundog Song Studio and Melodic Flow Today we’re reviewing an amazing pair of chord and scale composition tools from Feel Your Sound – Sundog Song Studio and Melodic Flow. We reached out to Hauke, the developer of this software and asked to give the technology our take. After some extensive time spent with each tool we have a lot of insight to share, below we will go through how to use each and share with you the benefits and drawbacks (if any) of both programs. Sundog is especially complex if you want to dive into its abilities so we’ll give you the rundown on the basic workflow. su_divider top=”no” divider_color=”#d2d2d2″ size=”1″ Sundog Song Studio Sundog Song Studio is a standalone all-in-one composition tool. You can write melodies, basslines, chord progressions, and even drumlines. Initially, the prospect of using a standalone software to generate ideas sounded tedious but Hauke …
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5 Advanced Chords + Ableton’s Chord MIDI Effect Cheat Sheet (Free Download)
Ableton’s Chord MIDI Effect Cheat Sheet    We continue with our Ableton Effects cheat sheet series. Check out the previous cheat sheets and techniques by CLICKING HERE.  The entire collection is available to Beat Lab students and alumni.  The chord MIDI effect is a simple yet powerful effect especially if you are looking to play complex chords with only one not.  Combining the chord effect with other MIDI effect can result in extremely useful tools like melody generators, complex arpeggios and automatic drum fill makers.  Here are 5 different chord formulas for you to test out.  Scroll down to the bottom to download the free cheat sheet. divider style=”clear”  Major 9th – Smooth and Lush   divider style=”clear”  Major 7th Add 2/6 – Gospel Fullness   divider style=”clear” Minor 9th – Dark and Soulful   divider style=”clear”  Minor 11th …
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KordBod – Not Your Ordinary Chord Generator
KordBod – Not Your Ordinary Chord Generator ISLA Instruments launched a kick starter for a powerful little toy called KordBod. A sleek, multi dimensional chord generator. Equipped with a two octave key board, LED display, chord modifier, a ribbon slider, a memory bank and some rotary knobs. The KordBot can be used as a step sequencer, an apreggiator and as a powerful learning device. KordBot is designed to give you easy access to a variety of chords allowing you to create a comprehensive progression on the fly. On the left side of the device you have access to the type of chord structure you’d like to play, be it a diminished 7th or a minor 9th. On the right side, you have a keyboard layout which allows you to choose the root note of your chord. On the top of the KordBot there are six chord memory pads that you …
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MIDI Tricks #2 – Custom Arpeggiator
MIDI Tricks #2 – Custom Arpeggiator What does it mean to Arpeggiate? Arpeggio is when you breakdown a chord to it’s individual notes and play them separately in a sequence. Here is an example using a C Major7th chord. Chord as a Block Arpeggiated chord broken down to the individual notes playing 1/16 notes. We can of course play arpeggiate in any sequence we want and even take notes out or add more notes. In this example we’re playing the notes of the chords in a downward motion and taking out the last note(C3). divider style=”clear” Ableton Live comes with it’s own Arpeggiator MIDI effect. Which can arpeggiate a chord automatically so we only need to hold the notes of the chord when playing or simply draw a sustain chord when editing a MIDI clip. We can choose the speed using the rate and …
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