Basslines and melodies on AR

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Maby a bit of a newbie question but, if i want to write melodies and basslines with the AR how is your approach for it? Ive got the reshaped harmonics pack and it have alot of synth samples to use for this but,

All tuning is just + or - in numbers so how do you know which note it become? In case i want to stay in key its helpful to easily knows whats played… do you use some kind of tuner or go by ear only? My eartraining for music is not the best :slight_smile: in the chromatic mode, is the same pad always the same note even if i change the sample?

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I usually start by recording random tune modulations on toms, rim or cb.

I do everything by ear.

If you need semitone steps to write your music, i suggest using the chromatic mode.

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you could always get a chromatic tuner, hook it up… and see what pitch yar playing…
that or the oldskool way, and tune it by ear, with some other in tune synth next to it… (or a rompler with piano-patch… that’s what I did for a few years)

not sure if you can use EVERY guitar tuner as a chromatic tuner. (with this I mean: U can see very clear what pitch you are playing, instead of how close you are to the tuning of a “string”) but google a bit, you will find one that can…

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I just beat it out on the pads in chromatic mode. Careful though cause the synth in this mode goes out of key (this has been a bug from the beginning and elektron has still not fixed it). I’m not sure this applies to dialing in the notes in semitones as i never dial in a melody.

I’m not sure what you mean by “eartraining”. If it sounds right it’s probably right (you could very well be in some crazy key and or mode anyway). If you want to be sure to stay in a particular key then i would presume you knew how to do that and just correlate the semitones to the pads.

And “0” is the original key of your sample (C on the synths) and -/+ 1 is one semitone in the respective direction. So if your sample is in C +1 will be C# and -1 will be B.

Here’s a sweet post on chords: Chord and stab sample packs?

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with bad eartraining i mean that i still cant tune my guitar by ear even though ive played for 5 years now :slight_smile:

so if i find out what note the raw sample is , the semitone tuning should give new notes… i will try my guitar tuner to see if it works for this

ive written a awesome melody in the d# minor key on my synth and want to add AR to it so thats why i want to be able to play a correct scale over it

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I find the easiest way for me is to hook up a midi keyboard directly to the AR and live record into the sequencer.

If it’s complex stuff that I can’t play I first record the midi into my DAW, edit in the daw, setup the AR to sync to my DAW and live record from the midi track in my DAW into the AR sequencer.

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if the raw samples are C notes, will the keyboard play all notes correctly? will try with a midi keyboard today

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I’ve been meaning to do this. I seriously need to get on the ball.

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if the raw samples are C notes, will the keyboard play all notes correctly? will try with a midi keyboard today[/quote]
Yes.