| Author
|
Arpeggiator
|
aXis
IsraTrance Full Member
Started Topics :
116
Posts :
2562
Posted : Sep 12, 2007 01:06
|
anyone knows abt them in details ?
links wud b appreciated , names of the ones ppl use ofthen ,and wat is it doin musically ...
Take care
|
|
|
Alias
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
32
Posts :
984
Posted : Sep 12, 2007 01:49
|
|
mubali
Mubali
Started Topics :
71
Posts :
2219
Posted : Sep 12, 2007 05:01
|
abt = about
An arpeggiator is a midi tool used to take a chord or any group of notes that are sustained for any length and allows the individual notes that come out of it to be played in an order.
Let's say you wanted to have a 16th note sequence that plays the notes C, E, G. Instead of drawing 16th notes that alternate between those notes, you'd draw 3 long notes on top of each other so to speak. say you wanted the arp to run 1 bar. You'd draw in that 1 bar sequence the c note to run the length of the bar, and then you'd have the E and G notes run the same length in that sequence. The arpeggiator would take those notes and according to how you set the parameters on the arp would play individual notes to the length of how the arp was set, in the case of the example, 16th notes. So 1 16th note would be a C, then the next would be either E or G and so on. There are many synths that have them built into them, and personally I use those, however both Cubase and Logic have midi editor type arpeggiators that can be used. The one cool thing I like about Cubase's arp plugin, even though I don't use it, is that you can set it up to where it will change the notes that you input to what it would look like after it's run through the arp. In a sense, it's easy to hand program an arp, but sometimes some arps can be different than what you might come up with on your own. I personally love the Virus's arp and have made some sequences with it that I wouldn't have thought of by myself... Arpeggios were used first in classical music, and that's one of the first connections that I had made when getting into writing electronic music.
 An Eagle may soar, but Weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. |
|
|
|
Chambao
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
19
Posts :
138
Posted : Sep 12, 2007 05:21
|
Exactly as Mubali said, but lemme take it all in.
an Arpeggio is a Looping short melody. (as far as i know, if this is wrong, my name is bob and i live in papoa new guinea)
Love is Life
- www.myspace.com/pinkadelica (Myspace)
- marcio_zimerman9@hotmail.com (Email and MSN contact) |
|
|
|
Chambao
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
19
Posts :
138
Posted : Sep 12, 2007 09:35
|
sorry, an arpeggio is a broken down chord, where each note on that chord is played in succession instead of simultaneously 
very simple, by thinking of it this way, you can arpeggiate any chord in the world. Love is Life
- www.myspace.com/pinkadelica (Myspace)
- marcio_zimerman9@hotmail.com (Email and MSN contact) |
|
|
|
mubali
Mubali
Started Topics :
71
Posts :
2219
Posted : Sep 12, 2007 11:48
|
|
u got it...
An Eagle may soar, but Weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. |
|
|
|
mubali
Mubali
Started Topics :
71
Posts :
2219
Posted : Sep 12, 2007 11:49
|
now take it a step further and make it an arpeggiated chord 
An Eagle may soar, but Weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. |
|
|
|
Chambao
IsraTrance Junior Member
Started Topics :
19
Posts :
138
Posted : Sep 15, 2007 04:01
|
oh you torture me...
an arpeggiated chord isnt just a sequence of chords played in succession?
(or one chord? you mean like a broken down chord to an arpeggio? i didnt get the question darling)
Love is Life
- www.myspace.com/pinkadelica (Myspace)
- marcio_zimerman9@hotmail.com (Email and MSN contact) |
|
|
|
mubali
Mubali
Started Topics :
71
Posts :
2219
Posted : Sep 17, 2007 18:53
|
|
say you have an arpeggio already converted into midi... then you make another arpeggio that's done in a perfect chord of the previous arpeggio... that' might sound really cool... that's what I'm talking about. An arpeggiator takes 1 chord and turns it into a sequence fluctuating between the notes used to that first chord. So if from that point you take all the individual 16th notes and copy them to where that 16th note arped line is now an arped chord, what will that sound like?
An Eagle may soar, but Weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. |
|
|
|
gutter
Inactive User
Started Topics :
54
Posts :
3018
Posted : Oct 10, 2007 15:08
|
... i love the arpeggiator in FM8 of Native Inst.
i think it helps you a lot to understand the basic and advanced synthesis of the arpeggio on your PC .. also has super-great sound ,, its a great vst synthesizer
... and of course much more cheaper that hardware synths ... it helps and teaches me a lot ...
highly recomended... |
|
|
|
