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Here's the Workflow:
In Piano Motifs:
1. Create some settings in Piano Motifs and save them to a MIDI file called "Piano Motifs".
2. Lock your current settings and make a variation (and alternative would be to hand input your own chord progression which will provide more style variations in the final work).
3. Save your resulting MIDI variation into the same folder as the first save: the IOS files app will tell you a file of the same name exists and if you select "Both" as your reaction you start building a folder of files named "Piano Motifs", "Piano Motifs 2" "Piano Motifs 3" that all play well together. Using your own chord progression is probably the best way to get rhythmic variation because then you can have saved file use different stylistic settings (arpeggio, chordal, bass and chords, etc).
Now we need to import these files into a useful MIDI file player and the best candidate for the job is the MIDI sequencing app called "LK - for Ableton Live & MIDI". It's free with IAP"s and the only IAP we need in the "Matrix" on Black Friday sale for $4.
LK "Matrix" is tricky to learn.
LK Matrix:
1. Load LK into your DAW (I use AUM) as an AUv3 generator app.
2. Open LK and start the Matrix (after buying it). It's the top widget of the 6 along the left edge.
3. You should have 1 default track. The MIDI contents will be empty if the square at the top of the track is GREY and colored if it has content. Touch and hold on the top SQUARE to get a pop up menu: choose Import MIDI and navigate to your folder holding the "Piano Motifs" midi files. Choose the first one.The SQUARE will turn some color.
4. Now we need another track... Hold the UP ARROW in the bottom right corner with your right hand. The base block in track one will become a "..."elipsis". Touch the Elipsis with your left hand (right still holding up arrow). You'll never do this two handed combo by accident and people spend hours thinking this app is totally worthless because they haven't seen a video of this trick (thanks @Daveypoo for the LK "Matrix" video. He also demo's the other IAP's and Chorder is #2 for me with Keyboard, MIDI Controller. MIDI PADS, X/Y PAD all being on sale at 50% off for Black Friday).
5. From the pop-up menu in track #1 select "Add track" and repeat steps 3-4 for as many files as you have generated or want to use in your final composition.
By default track #1 will output on MIDI Channel 1, 2 or 2, 3 on 3...
In your DAW assign instruments to the channels and create the routing assignment to the LK AUv3 app.
LK uses the "Looper" paradigm to launch tracks based on loops. Touch a colored block and that Piano Motif MIDI variation will get dispatched on the next iteration of the configured loop (configured as a number of BARS in the LK GUI).
I hope you try this out and share your questions and your final musical results.
And don't tell anyone about this secret of writing music for the cinema without knowing anything about music theory or writing parts for your orchestras... or even having knowledge of orchestras.
I think we can do this on our phones while in lock-up or on the bus and mail out the results.
Here's another piece based on a different Piano Motifs folder set:
I downloaded LK. Which IAPs to I need?
This does look pretty easy!
Never mind, McD! 🤓
Matrix is essential but if you have the coin add the Chorder.
MIDI controller can be mapped to AUM parameters which could be useful.
LK is made for LIVE performances like the Ableton folks use.
You'll get Clip launching (MIDI in our case) and can throw in keyboard, PAD lines too
without leaving the LK GUI.
Do you think it would be possible to just use Navichord, Chordian or something similar instead of the Chorder?
Can it sync to AUM?
Auv3 any time soon?
I don't see why not if you remember your Chord Progression between the 2 apps: Piano Motifs and Navichord.
LK Syncs to AUM and follows it's transport and BPM settings.
Here's the same LK project targeting synths with the BPM dropped to 20 (at the start) in AUM. Then I manipulate the AUM mixer and slowly increase the BPM in AUM to about 100 and change one of the synth presets and fiddle with the instance of SpaceCraft Granular - all LIVE. It's ALIVE!
I'll give it a try!
Just remember anything that spits out MIDI files can be used to import to an LK track like the Lumbeats Drummers for example. I'm off to test Funk Drummer MIDI output files.
UPDATE: Added a Funk Drummer MIDI loop on track 5.
Oh that sounds pretty awesome!
I think we've jus scratched the surface of a whole new work flow that will make us look
highly capable without doing much more than assembling the work of a few geniuses...
Of course, we'll tip them for their contributions after the sales stop taking all the budget.
Indeed!
I hope all developers add the Tip IAP.
There are so many apps I purchased on sale and became an instant part of my workflow.
Plus it just feels good to give back!
It feels great to feed someone to create bug fixes and enhancements. This app has had
so many really useful updates in a very short period of time. I'd like to see more and $1 or 2
every so often might make it happen.
Thanks, @McD !
I follow your work with great interest. Thanks for posting.
@McD
Btw you can double tap that LK shift button to latch it so you don’t have to keep pressing it.
You’re welcome. 😂
Bonus tip for AUM users... if you double tap somewhere around the FX section, this creates a new FX node, meaning you don’t need to do the swipe up gesture and then tap that orange plus one button. Much easier.
Some folk aren't aware of this one.
Thanks... I recall now that @daveypoo showed me that. He also comments on how the
LK GUI drove him a bit crazy. It's the best thing I have found in AUM in a long time.
I was hoping to import a lot of MIDI (or music XML if required) into StaffPad but it's too
buggy.
But I can load 4-8 Piano Motif variations right into LK and actually DJ live Symphonic style
performances. Talk about pulling the history of western music into a single interface. There
is some real gold in these hills.
Tip your dev's.
Thanks for explaining your method! Not all who are relatively silent are lurkers, just no point in talking if we have nothing helpful to contribute to the discussion.
True... but it's nice to know I'm not shouting down the well.
I need advice: the Piano Motifs files once loaded into LK merge the accompaniment with the melodic line. In other MIDU players they are treated as Channels 1 and 2 but in LK they get merged.
I want the easiest was to split the channels into distinct MIDI files.
Help.
Free cookie to the best answer. Maybe there's an option in Piano Motifs to only output one vice at a time? Help.
Well that sounds boring!
First thing I noticed when following your steps. I wondered why it wasn’t mentioned at the time.
False advertising. But this indicates you actually tried out the steps. Did an interesting piece emerge from the effort? I have many ideas about how to use this LK arrangement for some
various approaches to ambient and orchestral and generative chaos (using multiple root keys). But I don't want to swamp everyone with every little experimental effort but I will probably put anything interesting up on my SoundCloud since I like to re-visit later and see if
anything strikes me as interesting and even better if it doesn't even sound like something I made.
Nope, at that point, I didn’t really fancy troubleshooting and went in search of lower hanging fruit. Haha
However I did try my own experiments with Piano Motifs and Airdropping the MIDI to Mac and into Ableton where it did correctly split the parts over 2 tracks.
I didn’t end up using the generated melody from PM but the arped-chords did inspire my own melody into something I will definitely continue with. Ending up sounding very ‘Tycho-like’.
Yes. I have imported "Piano Motifs" files into:
Xequence 2 (it splits out 2 tracks)
Musk MIDI File Player (it splits to channels 1 and 2)
Cubasis (2 channels)
I think it might be time to learn more about the LK Piano Roll editor. Maybe even read a manual.
I record my Piano Motifs midi directly into atom, in AUM. Just use the AUM virtual destination channels 1 & 2 into 2 separate instances of Atom.
Yea I used to use Musk Midi player all the time before he updated adding the IAP midi out feature.
I think the best thing to do would be to ask @sinosoidal if it’s possible to import a multi-channel midi file into separate tracks in LK or at least be able to choose which track gets imported.