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bvdp
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« on: September 18, 2022, 06:49:30 PM »

I played the song "Come Life Your Life With Me" the other night. Even though it was a file that I'd written years ago, I couldn't remember exactly how nice the intro sounded Smiley So, here's a little tutorial file which shows how to do cool intros in MMA.

Code:
// Here's a neat demo showing how to use a solo arpeggiate
// in an intro. This has been lifted from the song
//    Come Live Your Life With Me (The Godfather, 1972)

// Using some violins and an intro style from stdlib we
// get a cool tremolo string section effect.


Tempo 110
Keysig C minor

Groove LatinWaltzIntro

// The notes in the solo lines match the notes
// in the chords. We set up a multi-line macro
// to make it easier to duplicate the sequence

Mset Notes
    2.ceg;
    2.dgb;
    2.dfan;
    2.dgb;
EndMset

Begin Solo
    Voice Violin
    Articulate 140
    Volume ff
    Octave 6
    Harmony None
    // Play with the following line for effects
    Arpeggiate Direction=Both Rate=32 Decay=-8
    Begin Riff
        $Notes       
    End
End

Cresc pp mp 4  // fade in

1        Cm
2        Gm
3        Dm
4        Gm

// Let's do it again without the auto-generated chords from the intro

Decresc pp 4  // fade out this time

Begin Solo
    Begin Riff
        $Notes
    End
End

5  z
6  z
7  z
8  z


Hope you enjoy and find these little tutorials useful.
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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2022, 06:31:56 AM »

Cute. Very cute.
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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2022, 04:37:05 PM »

Yeah, and MMA can do this shit much faster than I can move my fingers on a keyboard Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2022, 11:25:25 AM »

Move over AI, MMA got there first Grin
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« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2022, 04:51:20 PM »

Move over AI, MMA got there first Grin

AI? We don't do any of that fancy ass crap here. We endorse real "I" ... no matter how low the bar is set Smiley
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