Title: Muting voices in tracks Post by: bvdp on March 16, 2024, 06:56:01 PM Today's helpful hint from Bob concerns the customization of a GROOVE by
muting voices/tracks for selected beats. For the down and dirty details of the commands discussed, you should refer to the manual section "Musical Data Format" --> Rests(muting). It is easy to mute a track(s) for a select number of beats or bars. You know, silence the chords for a particular bar, etc. I often use this when creating intros and ends. It is easy to do this when creating a GROOVE, but sometimes that is a bit of overkill :) For a simple example, let's assume we have a nice little groove running using the Swing predefined library. In this example, we have 4 bars a simple pattern... Code: Groove Swing Great. But, now we decide that the first 2 beats of bar 4 should not have a drummer (I don't know why! She's a great drummer!)... Easy, just use the "z" notation Code: 1 C The notation can be a bit confusing, let's see if we can clarify: - A single "z" means turn off everything EXCEPT the drum. - You can have a number of modifiers following the "z", ! - turn off everything including the drum and one of C, A, S, W, B, R, P or D representing various tracks: C - Chord B - Bass A - Arpeggio W - Walk D - Drum S - Scale R - Aria P - Plectrum Important to remember: you can have many different tracks of the same type in a groove. You might have 2 different Bass tracks ... "!B" will turn off all of them so you can't use this shortcut to specify one. Back to our example, we could turn off the Drum and the Chords for beats 1 and 2 in bar 4: Code: 1 C To add to the beauty, you can create neat solos by ONLY playing a particular track. Again, in bar 4 we could just have the bass playing: Code: 1 C Note, we've using BW to force playing of Bass and Walk tracks since they are often using together in grooves. Have fun, experiment and make some cool music! Please visit our website: www.mellowood.ca/mma for more information. And, remember that your contributions to our "Buy me a Coffee" program are motivating us for more features and enhancements to MMA. Let's all make more music and make this world a happier place! Title: Re: Muting voices in tracks Post by: sciurius on March 16, 2024, 09:52:28 PM Nice! Thanks.
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