Sections triggers are a static set of up to five MIDI keys that can trigger certain notes from whatever Chord Pad chord is currently active. Or you would if the Chord Pads hadn’t recently been updated with Sections Player options. An arpeggiator MIDI plug-in such as Cubase’s Arpache 5 can help a little, but they can sound rather repetitive and for a more human-sounding result, you need to ‘play’ the arpeggios yourself. Sometimes that’s fine but, just as I like to fingerpick chords on my guitar, I’d also like to be able to play arpeggiated chords on a piano or synth. As I described in that piece, once you’ve configured the Chord Pads, you can use them to trigger even complex chords with a single finger I find them incredibly useful for laying down basic chord sequences either for use with virtual instruments or with the Chord Track (explained in SOS June 2013).Īlthough the Chord Pads offer some very useful performance options (changing the chord voicing or adding chord tensions in real-time, for example), with the exception of the option to trigger a single MIDI pattern, all you get is ‘block’ chords, in which every note plays simultaneously.
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The first piece explained how to use the Chord Assistant as a ‘songwriting assistant’, which suggests potentially more interesting chord sequences, and the second focused on using Chord Pads to embellish less-than-stellar piano skills (such as my own!). In two articles back in SOS May and June 2015 I explored Cubase’s Chord Pads and Chord Assistant. With only the most basic of keyboard skills, you can use Cubase to play convincing piano parts in real time. If you want more than just block chords, you need to go beyond the blue Chord Pads and green chord-variation options.
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