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This app just gets better and better.
Nice tune ! I had never noticed you could change the controls in the upper right corner.
@GeoTony, @lukesleepwalker, @HotStrange, @Wrlds2ndBstGeoshredr, @ecou thanks for listening and for your comments! 🙏
@HotStrange , yes Roli doesn't support this app anymore, but if you have it you can get some good sounds out of it.
I do have it! Sometimes it’s pretty glitchy but definitely great sounds to be had 🙏
@azul3D_Apps I reluctantly make a request, but I am enjoying the new arp w/ bass accompaniment style so much that I feel compelled to at least make an inquiry. Any possibility that we could get "Serendipity w/ bass" accompaniment? The serendipity style is one of my favorite ways to add really interesting and varied arrangements to a tune--and one of the benefits is how impressionistic the motifs are. However, there are some use cases where a "lite" version of that impressionism is needed. Sometimes that underlying bass note could hold things together just a little bit more. Anyway, an idea and nothing more!
Hi @lukesleepwalker, thanks for your request. This should be easy enough to add, let me see what I can do.
Sweet, thanks for looking!
@azul3D_Apps I am really late to the party, but have been using Piano Motifs in AUM for the last few days and I am blown away - great stuff! Two questions, and I apologise if these have been asked before:
I have no problem routing the MIDI out from Piano Motifs to different instruments in AUM - is there a way to do this in Logic Pro for iPad and/or Cubasis?
Is it possible to input any chord into Piano Motifs’ chord progression facility, rather than just chords from selected scale? This would be really useful to me. EDIT - think I’ve found that using Alt Scale Chord
Many thanks
Hi @BillS, happy to hear you’re enjoying the app. MIDI routing in Logic Pro is non existent. There isn't a very straightforward way to send MIDI from one instance of PM to more than one Logic Pro instrument and furthermore there isn't a way to filter MIDI channels. A cumbersome workaround could be to first save the motif you want to work with. Then on each Logic Pro instrument instantiate PM as a MIDI Fx and a MIDI channel filtering AU after that. Finally, you load the motif on each PM instance.
I don’t have Cubasis, so I don’t know how MIDI routing is done there, but maybe someone else can chime in on how to do it.
@azul3D_Apps thanks - that’s as I suspected with Logic. If anyone is able to help with Cubasis that would be great, although I’m pretty sure it’s the same as Logic Pro and not possible.
I have managed to get it working in Cubasis but only for the 2 channels not the 3.
You need to route the midi from channel one to channel 2. Here’s my setup.
At this point both tracks are playing both midi channel. Now you need to use Streambyter to block the unwanted channel by using the following script.
Put the following script in Streambyter on channel 1
X1 = XX +B # block channel 2
Put the following script in Streambyter on channel 2
X0 = XX +B # block channel 1
A new version of Piano Motifs (v4.37) is now available. What’s new in this version:
• New Serendipity w/Bass Accomp Style
• New Append Mode - When this mode is On, motifs will be appended to form an Arrangement as you generate new ones. When you press Next after you have generated a new motif, you will have the ability to append or not the newly generated motif. At any time, you can go to the Arrangement Screen to make any edits you want to the Arrangement. To access this mode go to More Settings.
• Improved melody algorithm for User Defined, Pentatonic and Tonic Melody Constraints.
• Improved arpeggio generating algorithm for when time signature is 3/4 or 6/8.
• Added new melody types for randomly generated motifs to improve variety in melody generation.
• Added new accompaniments to the Chord & Bass Accomp Style.
• Fixed issue with Accomp Octave Shift stepper incrementing +2 in some cases.
• Fixed issue where Settings red light indicator was not On when random scales are been constrained.
• Fixed 3rd Track generation when Multibar Sustain and Even Slow Arpeggio Accomp Style are used.
• Fixed issue in AUv3 plug-in where when the app is in Sync Mode, if you went from the Arrangement Screen to the Main Screen the Arrangement would start playing immediately in some cases.
Try the new Serendipity w/Bass Accomp Style it generates some nice output. Also give the Chord & Bass Accomp Style a try, it produces some new accomps.
An example of the Serendipity w/Bass can be found here:
If you are enjoying Piano Motifs, please remember to leave a review in the App Store if you can.
Enjoy!
The new accompaniment came out even better than I was expecting! And the Append feature is tres magnifique! Bravo!
@lukesleepwalker, thanks for suggesting it! Agreed it came out better than I expected too! That Bass note serves as a harmonic anchor that ties the bar together.
Append with “keep or release”. I’ve got to try that and see if you can serve up long form arrangements suitable for instrument assignments in AUM or MIDI exporting to Staffpad for rendering there.
@azul3D_Apps Definitely a tip worthy update. Here’s a test drive of append mode exported to StaffPad for an orchestral rendering with Pipe Organ for the chords. Breaking out those chords across multiple MIDI tracks would be a huge benefit for creating string, brass and woodwind arrangements. I have this problem with every
chord based app… a chord on one MIDI channel can only typically be assigned to some form of keyboard and that’s not great. My work around is to pass that MIDI channel through @_Ki’s “divisi” Mozaic script to get the parts assigned. It’s also a bit strange that the numbers of notes per chord changes from as many as 6 to as few as 2 which can really mess up the “voice leading”. Still… this produces a working score in a matter of minutes. Most of the labor is assigning instruments to parts and cut and pasting notes out of the original MIDOI tracks which in Staffpad have no assigned instruments so they do not produce any sound. All the parts show up in distinct treble staffs even when the notes are down in the bass. I’m not sure if MIDI provides any hints for which staff to drop the notes into. It’s a small detail because copying treble notes into a bass staff fixes all those excess ledger lines.
Thanks for your support @McD! That’s a nice track you created. I might be mistaken by what you want to do with the chords, but PM can export the Accompaniment to multiple MIDI tracks when you use the MIDI - Multitrack export option. Will that help?
@azul3D_Apps Each update gets better and better. I love the append mode especially! I haven't used Piano Motiffs much as AUV3, as I have generally exported midi to a DAW to work with further, but I will probably be using it more for AUM jams now that we have append mode.
One question: Is it possible to save a Motif in stand alone, and open it in AUV3 mode? Or is export and import the only way?
No only motifs you’ve generated in auv3 show up.
Thanks @FriedTapeworm. Exporting in Standalone and then importing in the AUv3 plug-in is the only way.
hi @azul3D_Apps thanks again for the constant updates, workflow improvements etc. really one of the greatest apps of all time. Sorry if this has already been asked, but do you have any plans for any more apps? Something similar to piano motifs, but maybe "string motifs" , or bass generator etc? I know piano motifs on its own can produce these things, but i still think it would be cool to have more hyper specialized apps, that excel in generating a certain type of midi output.
Is there a way to force a (or edit the) chord progression?
produce> @cokomairena said:
Yes. You CAN input the chord progression:
More Settings -> “Program Chord Progression” Select “NEW” button.
Later, you can save/recall the progression. Saving MIDI instances you can also collect some MIDI creations using the save settings but different generated results.
I’ve been thinking about this, as well, though I’ve been thinking about it a bit differently. I use PM to carefully construct symphonic arrangements from various types of motifs. This involves starting with suspended chords or something similar, figuring out the chord progressions after I have something to build on, starting another instance of PM to re-create the chord progression but use call/response or serendipity to create rich and varied arrangements, etc. The new append feature makes it trivial to create some variations on the fly but it also multiplies the workflow complexities because then I have to re-create more varied progressions and arrangements as I think about multiple versions of PM playing as an “orchestra”. There are probably many technical blockers but I dream about a “Symphonic Motifs” that essentially creates multiple arrangements per “generation”. The chord progression is the same but creates multiple accompaniment styles such as, for example, one instance of suspended chords, one creates call/response, one creates syncopated bass—spread out across the 16 MIDI channels. More than three different accompaniment styles could be chaotic. But if we could create different styles in one generation then the append feature becomes truly a huge time saver for my workflow. I imagine @azul3D_Apps could make some extra $$$ with this distinct (and more complex so worthy of more $$$) app. Two cents and not a farthing more!
Thanks!
I tried putting in fewer chords (just 4 bars of Cm and 4 of Fm) and got something more soothing:
Thanks @shinyisshiny. I currently don't have any plans for derivative apps. I have concentrated efforts on allowing Piano Motifs to be more flexible with respect to its output so that it can be easily played on other instruments. As you have noted you can use the different Bass Accomp Styles, the Accomp Seq Accomp Style, and even the Arpeggio Seq Accomp Style as a Bass generator, and you can use the the 3rd track, or the Chord Sustain Accomp Style for strings.
HI @lukesleepwalker, it would definitely be a dream to be able to produce "Symphonic Motifs". As you have foreseen on the technical side there are significant hurdles and complexities, to be able to program and then produce something coherent with many distinct tracks.
In today's workflow, one thing that might help to replicate the same random chord progression per PM instance is to use the AU Copy/Paste ability that some Hosts have (if I remember correctly you use Loopy Pro, so I don't know if it has that function) and PM's Lock function:
When you Copy and Paste (at least in AUM), the MIDI connections and filtering are copied too. So you have to adjust these for every new instance.
Don't know if this helps in your workflow, but it has helped me when I need to add, let's say, an extra bass track.
Nice, relaxing. Great to see you're finding a good use for the new mode.
Well, this is very clever! I have done something similar by saving the preset in the host (it likewise saves the same info in the preset) but copy/paste makes it faster, for sure. Yes, it requires that I have to be happy with the "first motif" and then copy/paste it into a static state but I can live with that! Thanks for the tip.
Wow crazy how far this apps come. It’s getting super powerful now. Great update 🤩