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[Bear-Faced Cow]

$29USD from this part of the world as well. Are you sure you’re not looking at an EZX or other expansion pack?

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

It would always help to know what key your song is in and match it within EZ Keys. That way, the browser Midi would remain somewhat predictable for your progression (unless you want to get experimental and see where something goes as far as modal characteristics to the absolute freaky)

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Hardly systemic. DAWs behave exactly the same: they treat the major/relative minor key signature as one.

Changing a key signature is not about the tonal centre. Circle of fifths is. Changing the key signature will transpose the progression, not transmogrify it into a minor key all of a sudden. It would be no different if you transposed the region manually in the region property.

Sounds more like a case of unmet expectation from a piece of MIDI software than a bug. Probably best to submit it as a feature request and see if they’d be willing to take up the challenge.

As far as the OP’s issues, I can confirm that the Horror MIDI is doing the same thing. All of the other packs are not. I’ve managed to work around it transposing it manually. It’s definitely not a program issue in this case.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

There is no best style. If anything, use a style that suits you best. EZ Keys it’s pretty flexible that way. If anything, I wind up approaching it from many angles. Sometimes I will have played a track on my DAW and will record it into EZ keys from there and then replace it with some of the Midi through the browser. Other times, I have found myself drawing in chord progressions and adding the playing styles to them. Other times, I will Drag some midi to the timeline and use the circle of fifths to change the chords. I find no single workflow works better than the other. It’s really a case of what works best at that particular moment.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

The real question is if you are using SD3 as a plug-in within Logic, or as standalone.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It’s definitely not all at once. There are some new songs and some songs that were born out of ideas that were sitting on my hard drive for sometime and some songs that I just felt I could do better on bass. I have been using the past six months to improve my bass guitar technique and had noticed that I did not like the bass guitar track that was on the one song that I wanted to complete. One thing led to another over the past few weeks, and before I knew it, I found myself with 25 songs with bass guitar tracks, including two that I made from grooves out of midi packs that people were complaining about on the forum. So, now I am in a better spot to get some songs out, and with lock down, I don’t have any excuses.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

We’re back in lockdown… time to rock down!

Added bass tracks to 25 songs. Hoping to get a few completed. Sometimes, seeing your 324 songs posted gives me the challenge I need to git ‘er done!

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

While you are at it, please ask about the Horrors pack. I am noticing a similar phenomenon with that. I don’t experience  this with any other packs that I have.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It will be interesting to see what TT says about it. If it is metadata, then you’re right, it is a simple fix. Might be tedious, but simple.

You can probably work around the issue by double clicking the regions and transposing them to the right key in their property box.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Okay, that sounds like a bug with that particular Midi pack. Unfortunately for me, Ballads is one I don’t have so I can’t recreate it faithfully. All of the other packs that I have are working for me in that respect (Horror is in question, but that one is freaky unto itself – I might make a ringtone with it to let me know when my in-laws call). I wouldn’t be surprised if it was metadata related.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• This post was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

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[Bear-Faced Cow]

I think we agree that the very fact that your key signature is C makes D7 a borrowed chord, regardless of the progression on the timeline. There is no F# in C. It is outside of the key signature.

if your midi is already on the timeline, then changing the key will also change those borrowed chords. That itself is not a bug.

as far as dragging and dropping midi onto the timeline, I haven’t been able to re-create this type of issue of the wrong chords in a progression. That is even with the “keep midi“ option checked and unchecked. Perhaps list some steps to re-create this. The only way I can remotely come close to this is by using my own progression and replace browser midi with “ keep midi” option unchecked.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

If you look in the shot containing the C major signature, you will notice that there is a D7 chord. This is known as a borrowed chord. Changing the key signature to G major changed the borrowed chord to A7. A9 is an embellishment. So far, that is pretty much correct behavior. The other part with the C# is based on the F# in the other progression. That also looks correct. Transposing the key signatures it’s not going to remove the accidentals intentionally placed in a progression. That in itself would be a bug.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

The circle of fifths is used for tonal centers. Key signatures are for transposition to the correct scale. Using a relative minor to denote a key signature is more of a convenience. Scalar wise, the progression in G would still be considered correct regardless of whether you said it was in G or Em. Moving it within the circle of fifths, however, will change its tonal  qualities.

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

• The post has been modified 2 times, last modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Bear-Faced Cow.

[Bear-Faced Cow]

Definitely an interesting song. Always enjoy listening to your stuff, and sometimes crawling inside your mind. 😀

Not saying that you should do this, but if it were my song, I probably would have used a bit less aggression on the vocals and made it a bit more “in your face”. For myself, I probably would’ve sang it a bit less harsh and slammed the vocals while reducing the echo. I might have even doubled it with a whisper for this song to match the vibe of the music, at least to how I hear it. However, that’s me. YMMV

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

[Bear-Faced Cow]

It is probably missing something on the export. Have you tried importing into SD3 by hitting record while playing the instrument track?

jord

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Jordan L. Chilcott

Web Site: https://jordanchilcottmusic.com/

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