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Discovering Arpeggiator

Discovering Arpeggiator - Logic Pro Tutorial

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Discovering Arpeggiator

The arpeggiator is a very cool example of the new MIDI plugins in Logic Pro 10 that offer amazing, very sophisticated real time MIDI processing. Let me play this project, that has a bunch of synths, using arpeggiator. Everything except the bass line. We'll start with this mesmerizing saws patch. You select the MIDI effect slot right above the software instrument insert and choose our pitchiator from the pop-up menu. It's on top right beneath the option to remove a plugin. MIDI plugins are green, which makes them easy to distinguish from the other plugin inserts, which are blue. An arpeggiator plays and repeats notes in a chord one at a time in a particular pattern or sequence. Sometimes referred to as a broken chord. I'm just going to play three notes at a time. An f minor triad. And listen to this Japanese string movement patch that has arpegiator. Bring it up an octave. Again I'm just holding down three notes. I'll bypass our pageator on the left side of the insert And that's all…

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