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Melody & Harmony desktop production - Coggle Diagram
Melody & Harmony
desktop production
Our musical notation system, organized into
12 half-notes, Octaves
and
Scales
Octaves
- every 12 half-notes, they repeat in octave steps
Scales
- contains only notes with a certain harmonious relationship to each other
Half notes
: C#, D#, E#, F#, G#, A#, B#, C# - or - Cb, Db, Eb, Fb, Gb, Ab, Bb, Cb
Whole notes
: C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C
Intervals
Chords
Inversions
Tuning Reference A4 = 440Hz
Input devices
MIDI Step Sequencer
. MIDI via Mouse(drawing velocities)
Performance on
MIDI keyboard
Computer keyboard
MIDI (no velocities)
Edit / optimize, quantize
Possibility to create what was "
unimagineable
"
Possibility to create what was "
unplayable
"
Possibility to
layer one performance with many sounds
Possibility to easily
create harmonious layers
Possibility to play instruments in
extended ranges
Chords expressed via
Arpeggiation
Musical instrument digital interface
, a technology standard allowing electronic musical instruments to communicate with one another and with computers. We use our DAW to record MIDI notes into our computer, incl. their velocity (volume), pitch etc. .
MIDI notes are just information / instructions, and
DO NOT CONTAIN ANY SOUNDS
themselves.
MIDI
The
recorded MIDI track is connected to a sound generating device
(soft- or hardware, in 2022 prob. a plug-in :), like a
sampler, drum machine, synthesizer etc.
