Your still not giving the whole story. If he wants the key to still be in E but make it minor, you'll have to lower the G# as explained as well as the C# and the D# since the key of Emajor has 4 sharps and eminor has 1 sharp, F#. Bear in mind though, some of the D sharps you may want to leave as a D sharp instead of lowering it to a D natural. This is done so whenever you hit a B chord, you can keep the dominant feeling of pushing back to the e. You'll have to trust your ear on which chords to leave the D note sharp or make it a D natural.

If you want the song to retain it's major sound, then you'll have to follow the steps I laid out. If you indeed do want the change the sound of the song to a minor sound,  then follow Samheyman's method with the additional information I gave in this post.

Guitarpima


Your still not giving the whole story. If he wants the key to still be in E but make it minor, you'll have to lower the G# as explained as well as the C# and the D# since the key of Emajor has 4 sharps and eminor has 1 sharp, F#. Bear in mind though, some of the D sharps you may want to leave as a D sharp instead of lowering it to a D natural. This is done so whenever you hit a B chord, you can keep the dominant feeling of pushing back to the e. You'll have to trust your ear on which chords to leave the D note sharp or make it a D natural.

If you want the song to retain it's major sound, then you'll have to follow the steps I laid out. If you indeed do want the change the sound of the song to a minor sound,  then follow Samheyman's method with the additional information I gave in this post.

or you can try my suggestion. I've tried this now and it works great.
and also; since you can save the change as a preset you just have to make the settings once and then insert the plugin and load your preset on the other midi-tracks

I was going for the melodic minor :P

No. Joking aside - was trying to keep it simple but you're absolutely right. 

Wow, too much for a drummer to take in :-) must now go read all again, and inwardly digest.

Thanks all 

Loptec

Guitarpima


Your still not giving the whole story. If he wants the key to still be in E but make it minor, you'll have to lower the G# as explained as well as the C# and the D# since the key of Emajor has 4 sharps and eminor has 1 sharp, F#. Bear in mind though, some of the D sharps you may want to leave as a D sharp instead of lowering it to a D natural. This is done so whenever you hit a B chord, you can keep the dominant feeling of pushing back to the e. You'll have to trust your ear on which chords to leave the D note sharp or make it a D natural.

If you want the song to retain it's major sound, then you'll have to follow the steps I laid out. If you indeed do want the change the sound of the song to a minor sound,  then follow Samheyman's method with the additional information I gave in this post.

or you can try my suggestion. I've tried this now and it works great.
and also; since you can save the change as a preset you just have to make the settings once and then insert the plugin and load your preset on the other midi-tracks

Hmm I'm a little lost.  I quickely tried this method.


So, I open the transpose plugin


Select Custom Map
Go to the right hand side to- from section select C#6  "From"
Go to C#6 in "To" double click and change to C6 


Now, when I go into the"From" section it has also changed to C6, what am I doing wrong?


Sorry I'm feeling a bit daft!


Thanks

rather than using custom map doesn't the transpose mdx allow you to change key directly?

scook

STinGA

Loptec

Guitarpima


Your still not giving the whole story. If he wants the key to still be in E but make it minor, you'll have to lower the G# as explained as well as the C# and the D# since the key of Emajor has 4 sharps and eminor has 1 sharp, F#. Bear in mind though, some of the D sharps you may want to leave as a D sharp instead of lowering it to a D natural. This is done so whenever you hit a B chord, you can keep the dominant feeling of pushing back to the e. You'll have to trust your ear on which chords to leave the D note sharp or make it a D natural.

If you want the song to retain it's major sound, then you'll have to follow the steps I laid out. If you indeed do want the change the sound of the song to a minor sound,  then follow Samheyman's method with the additional information I gave in this post.

or you can try my suggestion. I've tried this now and it works great.
and also; since you can save the change as a preset you just have to make the settings once and then insert the plugin and load your preset on the other midi-tracks

Hmm I'm a little lost.  I quickely tried this method.


So, I open the transpose plugin


Select Custom Map
Go to the right hand side to- from section select C#6  "From"
Go to C#6 in "To" double click and change to C6 


Now, when I go into the"From" section it has also changed to C6, what am I doing wrong?


Sorry I'm feeling a bit daft!


Thanks

as I said before, today was the first time I tried this plugin..

what I noticed when I did though, was that the "from"- and "to"-notes (on the right) didn't display any # for the sharp notes.. =/

I had to double click them to see their actual state (then they showed as C# and so on as they should)..
it was just a display malfunction though, because it sounded right

maybe there's an easier/better way of using this plugin, as scook suggests, though. I dont' know... :)