This means that you can “jam out” until you come up with something you like. Two, this also means that you’ll never play a note that is “off key” or not in the musical scale that you’ve chosen.Īs you play a melody or bassline using your computer keys, Odesi automatically loops once you get to the end of your progression. This is good for two reasons: one it means that you don’t need a deep understanding of music theory in order to create melodic lines that will sound “correct” in your tune, at least as far as theory goes. You can draw and edit notes in Odesi by using your mouse, but a quicker (and more fun) way to do it is by using your computer keyboard, which turns into a three-octave keyboard, the notes of which are dictated by the musical key of your project which you’ve set. The Melody track is where you can write your own main melody by drawing on the grid or using your computer’s keyboard to play notes. Leads, pads, plucks, keys, basses, guitars… the Odesi library has got tons of awesome patches for you to use, and it can even host soft synths (eg Sylenth1, Serum, Massive) so that you can recall your favourite patches for use in the app. One of the coolest things about Odesi is that it’s packed with decent sounds for your sketches from the get-go. If you want to pencil in your own drum patterns or edit the existing ones, you can just click on “Add Drums” and then “Edit to Midi” to do this. There are also a handful of patterns for the Drums track, which you can add in to quickly fill out the rhythm portion of your musical sketch (lots of “four to the floor” options here too for different dance music styles). You can choose myriad chord progressions, bass rhythms, and dance-oriented drum patterns from Odesi’s library. For a DJ/producer, this alone is worth the price of admission because it can save you hours, days, weeks, months, even years of trail and error searching for the right melodic fit for your tunes. The cool thing about Odesi is that it presents a variety of “usable” (ie ear-friendly) ones to you, minimising guesswork while teaching you how basslines can sound in the process by exposing you to different bass patterns. Plotting bass parts, for instance, can be a challenge for both novice and intermediate producers just because there are so many ways to do it, depending on the style of music that you’re producing and the type of sound you’re going for. This is especially handy if you aren’t familiar with arranging drum parts and bass lines, because there are just so many different methods to go about creating them. Same with the Bass and Drums layers, you can choose from different popular patterns for both instruments. You can also adjust the tempo or BPM of your project to suit the music you’d want to produce. You can choose a chord progression from Odesi’s list (85 progressions in total) based on the musical key that you’re working in, which you can select at the top of the screen. A chord progression is made up of chords based on the chosen scale (eg I V vi IV, which you’ll hear in my demo video).Most popular music follows a sequence of chords, known as a chord progression. Chords are two or more notes within a scale that are played together.Musical keys in the minor scale are popular in dance music, and many big room / mainstage tracks are made using this scale.A musical key is a scale plus the first note in the scale: For example, if you are playing the minor scale of A (A B C D E F G), the musical key is A minor.There are a ton of music scales, but the most common are the major and minor scales, which are made up of seven notes, plus the octave (same as the first note, but higher in pitch). You can click on Lock which prevents changes, Hide to make the notes within a track disappear, and Solo to hear the track by itself. When you click on Chords, you can choose “Add Chord Progression”, and now you’ve got four bars of the grid filled out with a chord progression, which is a sequence of chords within a scale. There are five tracks set by default, and you can add and remove as needed. There is also an Acapella/Audio track that you can use to import an audio file, say if you’ve got a vocal file for a song that you want to remix. This is all pretty standard stuff, but what sets Odesi apart from everything else out there right now can be found to the right of the screen: Here you’ve got the Chord, Melody, Bassline, and Drums tracks. Odesi looks like a digital audio workstation’s Midi editor window: You start out with a blank grid in the middle of your screen, and you’ve got a piano keyboard to the left (seven octaves, which we’ll get to in a bit) and a set of drum sounds below it. Shown here is the projects screen that has all your Odesi files. In Use You can use Odesi either as a desktop app or in-browser.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |