4:44 Side note to new producers: This is something a lot of people fail to mention but when creating melodies, don't just play with the scale's notes at random and find ways for it to blend with the chords' notes which is called "harmonizing"
@@dmvtrax645 cubase piano roll is the second best in my opinion combine with fl but generally speaking cubase piano roll is just a different workflow to fl piano roll but is really good and amazing and have a lot of features like fl studio one 😊
I've updated FL to 21.2.3 and for some reason I still don't have the option for "generate chord progressions" after clicking the wrench tool while in piano roll.
@Madkay I agree with you. It's a tool to increase your work flow if you are less experienced or educated on music theory... you still need to produce creatively and arrangement for different genre styles as well as understanding how to mix. Little things right? 😊
This is wonderful, I can't wait for your video to show how to use this new workflow using Ghost Notes to create chords (on one track) and melodies on other tracks and then, how to use ghost notes to flesh out an entire composition - main track (chord progression) and supporting tracks (melodies and harmonies)...It's an exciting time to be on FL Studio.....
Man, when I started producing in 2007, I wished I had HALF of what we have now in 2024. It's crazy how far music production has come. It is way easier these days to create a professional sounding track compared to what we had in the early 2010's. I remember getting frustrated at how muddy my otherwise great Dubstep track sounded in 2011 lol. Now everything sounds so crystal clear. Now with this tool, I actually created a decent frame for an uplifting Drum and Bass track. Crazy, crazy how things have changed. I cannot wait to see what the new producers this decade create.
Good vid man, after getting the beta installed (just googled it) I was able to start messing with the chord generator. I wish they would allow you to ship the bass notes to another instrument. It does kinda seem like it just throws chords at random. If you do choose "Random" for the timing, you can't just randomly change the seed to try different progressions in the same key. I also don't like how when I want to try a new progression, you have to choose "replace all", which then for some reason deletes everything in the pattern. I had like zero luck coming up with a melody for my progression lol. I'll keep playing around!
I find the note highlighting for scales hardly visible. And it is only on the virtual vertical keyboard, not in the background of the piano roll where you put the notes. Also notes in the piano roll that do not conform to the scale could be colored differently. There is room for improvement. The chord tools in Cubase looks a lot more interesting to me. It's a good start what Image Line are doing. Lets see how they develop this in the future.
Inverterting a chord means a different part of the chord other than the root is in the bass. Moving a note that is in the middle of the chord up an octave is changing the voicing of the chord. Without changing the bass there is no change in the chord inversion.
@@ArcadeFL correct, an inverted chord will not have the root note in the bass but some other part of the chord in it's place. What you did was revoice the chord which also will make it sound different and is a great practice to make chord progressions sound interesting and fresh. Changing the voicing of the chord is inverting the intervals of some or all of the upper parts of the chord but because they still have the same intervalic relationship to the bass (octave equivalence) the chord is not inverted. Still, great content as always.
I installed 21.3 beta, but chord generation still not showing as an option in piano roll tools. Unlocked (I have the lifetime all-plugin license). Riff machine and all the others show, but not this new feature. Any idea why?
If you install the beta then you need to open the fl studio beta not regular FL Studio version. (So you'll have 2 different FL's installed) Maybe thats the problem? Check the About section in the menu and see which version is showing up.
@@leflyxdvd I haven't installed a beta previously (but tempted to give this a try), but it looks to be a standalone install as you mention (so you'll still have your standard FL 21 application), but I think it shares the config across all installed versions of FL so you shouldn't need to reinstall plugins.
I know all these tools are a "spectrum" in terms of capabilities etc, starting from actual real instruments, to synths, to midi-roll, to sample libraries and loops ... but generators that predict "good" harmony and melody ... I mean tools will be tools, but there has to be a line in that spectrum somewhere where you have to stop claiming that you made something? The same with AI image generation: if you use photoshop and just paint on a white canvas using brush presets, that is a far cry from telling Dall-E "draw epic landscape with waterfall" ...
Yo. I h9nestly feel like FL is in an arms race with every other daw/plugin for business now. Lol Scale locks and chord progression generators literally just eliminated my need to use scaler 2.
I get that this is for absolute beginners, and there's nothing wrong with that. But eventually, you need to learn to transpose the ideas in your head, into your DAW. There's not a single professional musician that just clicks a randomizer button, and waits for something that sounds good.😅
Creating a good chord progression is not hard at all but the melodies are a complete different thing. And trying to make one putting notes on the piano roll instead to find the melody playing with a keyboard not helps at all.
