An improved version of Scales & Chords
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What do you think of an update to S&C?
The more I think about it, the more I'm stunned by the many missed opportunities of this player, probably for the sake of usabilty.
Anyway, here are several things I'm dearly missing:
1. There is no way to borrow chords from outside of the key.
While there's the Alter button, it's unpredictable and when it's not, it changes the current chord from major to minor and vice versa. Come on. Why is this not at least a switch like the rest of the interface? Why do you have to _hold it down_?
2. Unlike in A-List Guitarist, you can't deliberately play sus/dim/whatever chords.
So the technology is there, it's just not implemented.
3. Except for drawing (multiple) automation lanes or the use of a clumsy mouse, there is no way to leave auto mode or even go from Maj to Maj7 for example.
4. You can't pick your own voicings.
Want to be limited to 6 notes like on old synthesizers? No can do. Want the MIDI notes to behave as if they were played on a guitar in a certain tuning (see: A-List!!)? Nope. Want to play two notes on the left hand and three/four an ocatave or two above? You can't.
5. It would be great to assign certain keys and scales to different parts of your song.
Kinda like a global S&C assigned to all, or selected instruments. Which helps you writing those transitions from verse to chorus for example. You're automatically in the key you aimed to be in at that moment in time.
Which leads me to...
6. Rework Blocks FFS!!!
Oh wow, this turned out to be a little ranty. Sorry for that, I just want to love what I already love even more. Happy to hear your opinions.
The more I think about it, the more I'm stunned by the many missed opportunities of this player, probably for the sake of usabilty.
Anyway, here are several things I'm dearly missing:
1. There is no way to borrow chords from outside of the key.
While there's the Alter button, it's unpredictable and when it's not, it changes the current chord from major to minor and vice versa. Come on. Why is this not at least a switch like the rest of the interface? Why do you have to _hold it down_?
2. Unlike in A-List Guitarist, you can't deliberately play sus/dim/whatever chords.
So the technology is there, it's just not implemented.
3. Except for drawing (multiple) automation lanes or the use of a clumsy mouse, there is no way to leave auto mode or even go from Maj to Maj7 for example.
4. You can't pick your own voicings.
Want to be limited to 6 notes like on old synthesizers? No can do. Want the MIDI notes to behave as if they were played on a guitar in a certain tuning (see: A-List!!)? Nope. Want to play two notes on the left hand and three/four an ocatave or two above? You can't.
5. It would be great to assign certain keys and scales to different parts of your song.
Kinda like a global S&C assigned to all, or selected instruments. Which helps you writing those transitions from verse to chorus for example. You're automatically in the key you aimed to be in at that moment in time.
Which leads me to...
6. Rework Blocks FFS!!!
Oh wow, this turned out to be a little ranty. Sorry for that, I just want to love what I already love even more. Happy to hear your opinions.
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Is the Alternate-Button automatable/remotable? Than just press a key on the remote device or use a switch from the Combinator? Never trieddiminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20181. There is no way to borrow chords from outside of the key.
While there's the Alter button, it's unpredictable and when it's not, it changes the current chord from major to minor and vice versa. Come on. Why is this not at least a switch like the rest of the interface? Why do you have to _hold it down_?
Yea, would be nice, but look at answer 1.diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20182. Unlike in A-List Guitarist, you can't deliberately play sus/dim/whatever chords.
So the technology is there, it's just not implemented.
Hum...yea...you would need to switch a complete S&C. I would prefere to have more own scales or be able to load scale-files which i could change via remote control.diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20183. Except for drawing (multiple) automation lanes or the use of a clumsy mouse, there is no way to leave auto mode or even go from Maj to Maj7 for example.
You can easily split the whole keyboard within a Combinator and you can have different chords, so no problem. I have no idea, how this could be solved differently.diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20184. You can't pick your own voicings.
Want to be limited to 6 notes like on old synthesizers? No can do. Want the MIDI notes to behave as if they were played on a guitar in a certain tuning (see: A-List!!)? Nope. Want to play two notes on the left hand and three/four an ocatave or two above? You can't.
I read this request in other threads. I am not that much into that key-scale-follow thing, but i can understand the requirement of a song-key-feature. No solution except for manual changing or heavy cabling AFAIK.diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20185. It would be great to assign certain keys and scales to different parts of your song.
Kinda like a global S&C assigned to all, or selected instruments. Which helps you writing those transitions from verse to chorus for example. You're automatically in the key you aimed to be in at that moment in time.
I still did not understood Blocks after years. I guess i am too dumb for this, so i dont care. But if you have some good ideas how it can be reworked, feel free to send PH an email.
Yea...diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 2018Oh wow, this turned out to be a little ranty. Sorry for that, I just want to love what I already love even more. Happy to hear your opinions.
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It's remotable. That holding-down-question was just a part of my train of thoughts, because why isn't it a switch but a button? Anyway.Loque wrote: ↑28 Dec 2018Is the Alternate-Button automatable/remotable? Than just press a key on the remote device or use a switch from the Combinator? Never trieddiminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20181. There is no way to borrow chords from outside of the key.
While there's the Alter button, it's unpredictable and when it's not, it changes the current chord from major to minor and vice versa. Come on. Why is this not at least a switch like the rest of the interface? Why do you have to _hold it down_?
The thing is, you can only switch to a parallel chord and not, while playing a GMaj chord for example, go to a F#min, although that's a nice transition. My point is, S&C helps with certain things, but it also limits you while in my opinion it doesn't have to.
You can't really force sustained and diminshed chords in S&C, like at all. Unless a certain sus/dim chord is part of a scale.Loque wrote: ↑28 Dec 2018Yea, would be nice, but look at answer 1.diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20182. Unlike in A-List Guitarist, you can't deliberately play sus/dim/whatever chords.
So the technology is there, it's just not implemented.
That'd be awesome.Loque wrote: ↑28 Dec 2018Hum...yea...you would need to switch a complete S&C. I would prefere to have more own scales or be able to load scale-files which i could change via remote control.diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20183. Except for drawing (multiple) automation lanes or the use of a clumsy mouse, there is no way to leave auto mode or even go from Maj to Maj7 for example.
I attached a picture to show what I mean. I believe you can't do such things with S&C in combination with a combinator.Loque wrote: ↑28 Dec 2018You can easily split the whole keyboard within a Combinator and you can have different chords, so no problem. I have no idea, how this could be solved differently.diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 20184. You can't pick your own voicings.
Want to be limited to 6 notes like on old synthesizers? No can do. Want the MIDI notes to behave as if they were played on a guitar in a certain tuning (see: A-List!!)? Nope. Want to play two notes on the left hand and three/four an ocatave or two above? You can't.
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Since you input only one midi note, only one instrument will be played after the split. Because that input note is either in on one section of the keyboard or the other. Unless you overlap of course, but which defeats the purpose.
No, what I want is the ability for S&C, for example, to always play the two lowest notes of a chord an ocatve below. Then maybe inverting the upper half. And putting the highest note in the middle. Features like that! More complex voicing options.
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Sounds like for someone with your level of theory knowledge maybe it would make more sense to have a chord player that you can program yourself, than to add such complexity to this player?diminished wrote: ↑28 Dec 2018Since you input only one midi note, only one instrument will be played after the split. Because that input note is either in on one section of the keyboard or the other. Unless you overlap of course, but which defeats the purpose.
No, what I want is the ability for S&C, for example, to always play the two lowest notes of a chord an ocatve below. Then maybe inverting the upper half. And putting the highest note in the middle. Features like that! More complex voicing options.
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You missed off 2 things (unless I read wrong) that would be amazing for Scales and Chords Player.
1) The ability to pick a chord type, sus4, maj, maj7, minor etc and just play it up and down the keyboard.
2) Strum feature.
1) The ability to pick a chord type, sus4, maj, maj7, minor etc and just play it up and down the keyboard.
2) Strum feature.
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Agree to strum feature. That was the first thing i thought, "why the f**** they did not added that?". But since we have extra strum Players, it is ok and makes more sense to the modular approach of Reason.Creativemind wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018You missed off 2 things (unless I read wrong) that would be amazing for Scales and Chords Player.
1) The ability to pick a chord type, sus4, maj, maj7, minor etc and just play it up and down the keyboard.
2) Strum feature.
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Yeah but still loads handier to have it built in.Loque wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018Agree to strum feature. That was the first thing i thought, "why the f**** they did not added that?". But since we have extra strum Players, it is ok and makes more sense to the modular approach of Reason.Creativemind wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018You missed off 2 things (unless I read wrong) that would be amazing for Scales and Chords Player.
1) The ability to pick a chord type, sus4, maj, maj7, minor etc and just play it up and down the keyboard.
2) Strum feature.
I still don't get why you can't pick a chord type though. It would be great for say Deep House where it consists of a lot of maj7ths, m9ths etc and you could pick one and play it up and down the keyboard.
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I also wish someone would make a Player device which defaults to 4 pads but another 8 can be added (4 and another 4) where you can assign a chord type to a pad, a chord note and octave to each pad and then you could play the pads to play the chords. Also, you could assign the pads to notes on your midi controller and play on the fly in any order.
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I see this as a separate device, with no need for the "Scales" and note filters parts. Could be there's a need for both a better Scales device AND a better Chord device to compliment the more generic Scales AND Chords device.Creativemind wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018You missed off 2 things (unless I read wrong) that would be amazing for Scales and Chords Player.
1) The ability to pick a chord type, sus4, maj, maj7, minor etc and just play it up and down the keyboard.
2) Strum feature.
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No doubt, and there are a few options available that I have my eyes on. ISLAinstruments Kordbot in the hardware realm for example, or CaptainChords as a VST solution. Although tools like the latter often have trouble in Reason because there is no VST MIDI out support.
I just wish there was more functionality from a player device like S&C, because I love how self-contained, well designed and fast everything in Reason is. Hence the feature request
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Yeah exactly this is my bullet point #2. While you can "dial in" something like maj7add9/11, this is impossible for sus4, sus6 or anything diminshed.Creativemind wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018You missed off 2 things (unless I read wrong) that would be amazing for Scales and Chords Player.
1) The ability to pick a chord type, sus4, maj, maj7, minor etc and just play it up and down the keyboard.
Spot on, Note Echo never changes direction or allows pauses that are not affected by pitch.
Example: imagine strumming the bottom 4 strings of a guitar and then picking the remaining top two strings at the same time - that should all go into a Note Echo feature request
I love your idea for a Kong type player device that is programmable with chords by the way.
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Note Echo can do exactly that!Creativemind wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018I still don't get why you can't pick a chord type though. It would be great for say Deep House where it consists of a lot of maj7ths, m9ths etc and you could pick one and play it up and down the keyboard.
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Doesn't AutoTheory cover a fair bit of the requests in this thread? I know it's not a Player device but with CVPT it shouldn't matter too much...
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Some ideas for scales and chords
A button or slider for sus2 and 4 chords!
Maybe add more chord progressions styles?
I’d like to see some more jazzy or blues driven scales. The custom chord maker is very minimal. It would be nice if you could set a fully custom scale and set fully custom chords. As it is currently, you can set a scale, but the chords are chosen in a fixed context
Iv learned a lot from this player, but I’d like to see all of the types of static cling chords merged into the propellerhead player
A button or slider for sus2 and 4 chords!
Maybe add more chord progressions styles?
I’d like to see some more jazzy or blues driven scales. The custom chord maker is very minimal. It would be nice if you could set a fully custom scale and set fully custom chords. As it is currently, you can set a scale, but the chords are chosen in a fixed context
Iv learned a lot from this player, but I’d like to see all of the types of static cling chords merged into the propellerhead player
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I was like, "what the heck is AutoTheory", and shame on me, I already got it with the Backline Rig 3 How could I have missed it..xylyx wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018Doesn't AutoTheory cover a fair bit of the requests in this thread? I know it's not a Player device but with CVPT it shouldn't matter too much...
Thank you soooo much, it indeed does a lot of what I'm looking for! Fine-tuning chords, sus etc with a key press, separate root notes, strumming, humanise, AND a melody/bassline section for split keyboard layout, how cool is that?
Yes, not a player device but like you said, with CVPT it kinda turns into one..
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Yeah I had the idea after I had a song in my head (singing it etc) then I picked up my guitar and worked out the chords. The chords that fitted the melody I was singing were Gm, F, Dm, F for the main part. I didn't like the way it sounded on guitar though with what I was singing. I wanted piano. I just wanted to be able to play those chords on 3 keys of my midi controller as I can't play the piano.diminished wrote: ↑29 Dec 2018I love your idea for a Kong type player device that is programmable with chords by the way.
The only other way is to work out the first chord, record that. Record over it and play the 2nd chord after it in the relevant place etc but it didn't sound natural enough.
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Hey, not sure if this is what you're looking for but I built this combinator when I ran into the same problems a while back. It allows finer control of the S&C device: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7508073
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Thanks so much Timmy! That looks super interesting, I'll dive into it ASAP. I certainly haven't used CV stuff enough to fully understand what's going on in your combinator by just looking at it.Timmy Crowne wrote: ↑30 Dec 2018Hey, not sure if this is what you're looking for but I built this combinator when I ran into the same problems a while back. It allows finer control of the S&C device: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7508073
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Checking this out now.Timmy Crowne wrote: ↑30 Dec 2018Hey, not sure if this is what you're looking for but I built this combinator when I ran into the same problems a while back. It allows finer control of the S&C device: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7508073
But yes, Scales and Chords is a little limited. Not having suspended chords is so frustrating. Autotheory RE's UI isn't great, and I find that I generally don't come up with as interesting movements as S&C.
It would be good if they sorted out the Midi for the next version of Reason so we can use Cthulhu and the new version of Autotheory (which afaik they are not planning on making a RE for)
Dear you.
I have iMac (macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6) and I'm using Reason 10. I use midistart music keyboard and I have a problem with that the keyboard is not right tuned in general. It is little to high. What could be the reason for this problem?
Regards
Larus.
I have iMac (macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6) and I'm using Reason 10. I use midistart music keyboard and I have a problem with that the keyboard is not right tuned in general. It is little to high. What could be the reason for this problem?
Regards
Larus.
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Maybe you transposed on your keyboard?
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How cool would it be if there was a chord preview button/mode
Inside the custom display there could be a list of the types of chord progressions. Minor major harmonic minor etc. and a type of chord for each key. But inside the display you could mix chords from different progressions. While getting a bars length demo of what the chord sounds like. Maybe a basic piano or synth preview sound could always be loaded up
Or if they wanted to get really fancy, you could drag a sample into the player and have it automatically preview when you select a chord. But this feature would obviously have to have the ability to toggle on and off. Yes you could play and hear as you go. But this feature is meant for those who want to get abstract chords from random playing/chord progressions
It would be useful for the pick and choosing stage of not sound design, but your chord design
Inside the custom display there could be a list of the types of chord progressions. Minor major harmonic minor etc. and a type of chord for each key. But inside the display you could mix chords from different progressions. While getting a bars length demo of what the chord sounds like. Maybe a basic piano or synth preview sound could always be loaded up
Or if they wanted to get really fancy, you could drag a sample into the player and have it automatically preview when you select a chord. But this feature would obviously have to have the ability to toggle on and off. Yes you could play and hear as you go. But this feature is meant for those who want to get abstract chords from random playing/chord progressions
It would be useful for the pick and choosing stage of not sound design, but your chord design
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