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33 · Post by 33 » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:51 pm

I've been reading here over the last few days trying to forumlate some way I could go about starting to compose my own melodies.

Im not good at coming up wth tunes as it is unless I have things to play with so to speak and I dont play an instruments at all.

I was thinking learning notation etc so I could read others music and try and experiment from that might be a good idea but the time , learning scale of that would probably be long .

Without sounding like cheat I suppose I am admittedly looking for shortcut then or at least some way I can take notes and get familiar enough with them so I can construct something .

I have vague idea of how each note sounds but trying to visualise musically/ mentally which note to pick to creat a tune is a nightmare.

Someone mentioned something like harmony navigator in an eralier post so Im wondering at all if theres any other software like that that can help with this process and creating catchy tunes.

thanks

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:52 pm

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33 · Post by 33 » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:03 pm

I have no keyboard..

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:05 pm

33 wrote:I have no keyboard..

Ah. Ok, try this... http://www.chordspace.com/ChordSpaceindex.htm

lewisr22 · Post by **lewisr22** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:10 pm

Here is some more good stuff

http://www.cognitone.com/products/index/page.stml

33 · Post by 33 » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:34 pm

Does chordspace work only with cakewalk sonar ?

thanks

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:37 pm

33 wrote:Does chordspace work only with cakewalk sonar ?

thanks

No. There's a special version which works with Sonar. The regular one works with most other hosts.

SledgeFist · Post by **SledgeFist** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:07 pm

tonespace is another MIDI utility you could try. I don't know if it is going to work in the style you need. I wired it into Balthor Grand just to hear it played. Make sure you play with the Space and Display settings in tonespace to get different chord "neighbors" in the display.

tonespace
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2611.html

Balthor Grand (2006 Dev Challenge)
http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_chall ... _GRAND.rar

good luck!

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 6:47 pm

There is also Microworks Camps, band in a box, Jammer Pro.

stanlea · Post by **stanlea** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:31 pm

Dewdman42 wrote:There is also Microworks Camps, band in a box, Jammer Pro.

This is the first time I see someone talking about Camps. It's a rather old app and has not been updated since years, but they always sell it on the net. Did you personnaly work with it ?

Dewdman42 · Post by **Dewdman42** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 8:35 pm

I did buy it once upon a time and did not do much with it...Agree its old. Just wanted to mention it.

33 · Post by 33 » Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:03 pm

SledgeFist wrote:tonespace is another MIDI utility you could try. I don't know if it is going to work in the style you need. I wired it into Balthor Grand just to hear it played. Make sure you play with the Space and Display settings in tonespace to get different chord "neighbors" in the display.

tonespace
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2611.html

Balthor Grand (2006 Dev Challenge)
http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_chall ... _GRAND.rar

good luck!

I tied this with Audacity but I cant get it work ( access denied )
I read Audacity has some issues with vst plugins so if this doesnt work with this do you know of any freeware progs it might work with ?

thanks

bobsled · Post by **bobsled** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:10 pm

VSTHost has QWERTY keyboard support, can host all sorts of plugins, and is free.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/posting.php

33 · Post by 33 » Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:39 pm

bobsled wrote:VSTHost has QWERTY keyboard support, can host all sorts of plugins, and is free.

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/posting.php

Thanks man :

Not doin so great so my thinkin gets little cloudy at times..

I notice theres a lot of good stuff on there too , really priceless !!

33

33 · Post by 33 » Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:03 pm

my damm keyboard I picked up cheap is bust - sigh

Is there any way round this I mean anythig similiar that doesnt require a keyboard like tone space i.e. plugins or whatever ?

Software to help with melodies , harmony and anything else ?