noynekker
I hope to use this as a songwriting tool in Sonar somehow, just not sure how to yet, but there is a lot of great info in this thread to get started.
There are three main ways I use it, although now that it's in the hands of creative people, you'll probably show me ways to use it I never considered...maybe that's my subconscious reason for sharing
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1. You're writing a song, and recorded part of it. You've been freed from thinking linearly because you attended my "Songwriting on the Fast Track" workshop, and it changed your life
. You can't quite figure out what chord comes next in a certain part, so you set the Media Browser default as specified in the article. You play the song up the point where you don't know what to add, and start clicking on chords in the Chord Library.
Aha! A C# minor is not only perfect, but
unexpected! 2. You have a soundtrack that has to go to the Fed Ex dropoff by 5 PM. It's 2:30. You don't feel even remotely creative, and sweat is pouring down your brow. Desperate, you go to the Chord Library and drag chords willy-nilly into Take Lanes, as recommended in the article. You find there's one particular progression that works great! So you delete the other stuff, add to the progression, record your overdubs, and make it to the Fed Ex dropoff at 4:15, ahead of schedule and under budget.
3. This one was never intended, but sometimes I drag the chords in as one-shot samples to fill holes or add accents. It's like those drum libraries that have drum loops, but also have one-shots of individual hits so you can add a snare accent or whatever. (Sometimes I do the same thing with the samples in the Gibson Bass Expansion Pack, where I want to add a slide or a sustaining note either to a part I played on bass, or a bass loop from a sample library.)