Ive just bought this and I'm still finding my way with the workflow. What confuses me is the loop length and speed settings. Surely this is determined by the host DAW.? Also how do you customise the ABCD patterns for each chord/bar? For example say you want ABAC.
Hi there, the loop length refers to the number of midi notes generated, so the longer the length the more notes, you can obviously play around with this once in DAW and change the length of patterns. The speed is just to give you an idea and will depend on DAW settings once imported. To change the chord patterns you can either just click drag to Copy or Shift click drag to Swap blocks. Hope this helps.
It’s just randomly generating 7 notes within a chosen scale and rearranging their order. Why would anyone hand this over to software? Its stretching it a bit them saying its AI.
Yes, the notes are generated at random from your chosen scale. However in the advanced drop down menu, you can assign your own four bar chord progression and get a more meaningful melody. Anyone with basic music skills could do this, but the random element takes you out of your predictable comfort zone. It also adds rythmic variations that you might not have thought about. I also considered insta composer but juggling up to six tracks of random generated notes would quickly get confusing. Working with just a few bars at a time in melody sauce is much easier, if you get something you like just drag the midi into your daw for editing and tweaking.
Unfortunately, the melodies generated are simplistic. Freely and without charging a penny, a cat walking on the keys of a piano generates the same kind of meaningless melody.
Great way to start off a song. Work from there. Useful video. Thanks.
No worries glad it helped
Ive just bought this and I'm still finding my way with the workflow. What confuses me is the loop length and speed settings. Surely this is determined by the host DAW.?
Also how do you customise the ABCD patterns for each chord/bar? For example say you want ABAC.
Hi there, the loop length refers to the number of midi notes generated, so the longer the length the more notes, you can obviously play around with this once in DAW and change the length of patterns. The speed is just to give you an idea and will depend on DAW settings once imported. To change the chord patterns you can either just click drag to Copy or Shift click drag to Swap blocks. Hope this helps.
Does it product same melody for everyone? or its unique?
Yeah good question, the melodies are unique depending on what you have set up. They are not presets, so whatever you produce will be different.
@@DavidThomCreations Thanks!
It’s just randomly generating 7 notes within a chosen scale and rearranging their order. Why would anyone hand this over to software? Its stretching it a bit them saying its AI.
Well it might be useful to some people and it's certainly easier to use.
Yes, the notes are generated at random from your chosen scale. However in the advanced drop down menu, you can assign your own four bar chord progression and get a more meaningful melody.
Anyone with basic music skills could do this, but the random element takes you out of your predictable comfort zone. It also adds rythmic variations that you might not have thought about.
I also considered insta composer but juggling up to six tracks of random generated notes would quickly get confusing.
Working with just a few bars at a time in melody sauce is much easier, if you get something you like just drag the midi into your daw for editing and tweaking.
Unfortunately, the melodies generated are simplistic. Freely and without charging a penny, a cat walking on the keys of a piano generates the same kind of meaningless melody.
I look forward to reviewing your Melody Cat plugin or you could call it Feline Phrases 😂