Create chords & melodies with ease - How To Hack Music Theory in Bitwig Studio

[@ianbrown3304]

Just bought 16 track Bitwig and have learned more about music theory through tutorials like this than the last 50 plus years. Big thank you. Really enjoying the whole deal. Stuff the purists.

[@PolarityMusic]

Thanks! Enjoy bitwig and ask if you need help

[@sadhill38again]

bro you have synthesized the musical theory

[@yannylovemusic3754]

Thanx a lot! It's very useful !!! )

[@baroufess]

Some times a note out of the scale is good but this device is a life saver.

[@gforcebaba]

I've completely converted to bitwig only because of you! Your tips and videos are gold... Never stop what you're doing because you're amazing! Peace from NC 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 🍻

[@IntimateNoise]

And we thank you for your contribution, that beautiful demo track in Skyence's pack! :)

[@mathieupe666]

Those "hacking devices" are even more usefull when you cracked (some of) the code of music theory for yourself. Then you start using them to speed up your workflow and expand the range of possibles.

[@kiqyou]

hey great video man. no fluff, just content

[@kmz8160]

Thanks! Great video! Just the needed amount of info in a short time, good format.

[@DjMyrddin]

Amazing.. really appreciate this! Just got bitwig and this is super helpful

[@StephanBaum]

When watching the video I suddenly was expecting that you would show a bitwig-ish way to select the root note of a chord. But then you added Cthulhu to the track, which I'm using myself for that task. 😉 Thanks for confirming that it can't be done with just Bitwig alone.

[@PolarityMusic]

hopefully soon :)

[@artakan303]

@@PolarityMusic is it possible now ?

[@PolarityMusic]

@@artakan303 no

[@dvjtj]

You, sir, are a genius. Your videos have supercharged my music production. Thank you so much!

[@Harveevideos]

FAntastic to see you switch to PC for everything. Tx for the content as always!

[@rd-cv4vm]

amazing, thank you

[@kiqyou]

i hope we get a midi grid in 3.5 so we can re-create cthulu!

[@artakan303]

is it possible with version 4 ?

[@alexandernevsky5055]

Thank you for this very useful video guide.

[@stub390]

you have no idea how inspired this made me!

[@memecoinmafia2732]

nice thanks 👍👍

[@mysticalmusicmoments]

Thanks for explaining all the things. Now I understand the point of diatonic transposer. Sometimes you understand something when you hear the spoken explaination.

[@globetrotterdk]

I would give five thumbs up if I could. Thanks man, you inspired me to start using Bitwig despite my trepidations about the expense of Bitwig for a beginner. I just got the 16-track version (which wasn't a large expense) and which gives me a leg-up on learning some of the basics that you showed. BTW, can you please provide a link to the version you made of this video without the voice over? Thanks.

[@charlyposse9767]

Hi! Nice explanation! Please, would be great to show how use random modulation to create melodies and chord progressions. Thanks!!

[@thabeachmaster324]

Why does my polysynth sound diffrent, im using the keyboard with caps lock as my midi keyboard, as soon as i open i my tone or timbre is way diffrent sounding then what you have..?

[@JoergWessels]

There are keyboards on the market that have a mechanical diatonic transposer built in. It's a little inflexible to be honest: It just works for C major, A minor, Eb minor pentatonic and Gb major pentatonic, but what it does, it does perfectly reliably. And because it doesn't rely on fancy software, it's easily copied, which is what most keyboard manufacturers have been doing shamelessly for centuries. You identify this feature by looking at the keybead: If it has black and white keys, the transposer is present. You use it by just pressing the white keys ignoring the black ones for C major and A minor and you press the black keys ignoring the white ones for the two pentatonic scales. Done ;-)

[@PolarityMusic]

;) i did a tutorial about this, but people are not so interested in this particular hack ;D heres the video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJvGhJ59ral9mdk

[@steveit8147]

The UI in Bitwig seems a lot better. Is it Bitwig 3 beta? Thanks in advance BTW, your channel is awesome. Keep it up! :)

[@PolarityMusic]

thx man, yes its the 3.0 beta :)

[@juliusreade6647]

I have a question about this. But since the multi-note is on 0,3,7 - would that mean that it's incorrect, since all chords will be minor, which isn't the case for all keys/notes within A major/minor scale? I might be getting this wrong. For example, isn't 4th / 5th always major, while 2nd 3rd is always minor etc. within the context of a major scale?

[@PolarityMusic]

Haven’t rewatched the video, but i guess I’m using a diatonic transposer after the multi note to keep the notes correct

[@XyloMW]

can you do subtractive eq here like oeksound soothe?

[@PolarityMusic]

to what are you referring to?

[@XyloMW]

@@PolarityMusic well i was wondering if there were algorithms for removing resonant frequencies from vocals like on soothe

[@PolarityMusic]

Yea but with what device? The video is about creating chords and also a bit longer.

[@XyloMW]

@@PolarityMusic i was wondering if you could make a video on that topic of subtractive eq

[@PolarityMusic]

@@XyloMW oh i see! Yea sure, noted :)

[@anonymit3379]

Very nice.

[@TerenceKearns]

Nice one 👌

[@partlysimpson5154]

Is it possible to extract this out to midi after?

[@PolarityMusic]

yes! create a new instrument track and select, as an input, the output of the diatonic transposer. done :)

[@HarbingerOfAnarchy]

Could you make some stuff of Future bass or Trap?

[@pextrapex]

Go Linux! :) And ofc, tnx 4 this tutorial

[@SliusarchukMusic]

Ти найкращий. Hello from Ukraine!

[@drfluffy3983]

Can you send a link to the Bitwig Discord server?

[@PolarityMusic]

discord.gg/0g2ZPafIN3eWParf

[@drfluffy3983]

@@PolarityMusic thx a lot

[@NeonPLotus]

Inexpensive and cost efficient: the Logitech 920 HD pro webcam.

[@PolarityMusic]

looks nice, thx!

[@JakobGille2]

I also use this one for streaming!

[@Maulleygxxx]

🙏🏿

[@BorisBarroso]

Jajaja, you are transitioning to PC and I moved to Mac, I really had a bad experience with a PC I bought like 3 months ago and I could not fix it was freezing every 15 mins or so and I have looked in the internet for ways to not have 100% hard disk usage, I think I have tried everything and I could not fix.

[@PolarityMusic]

:( maybe a bad hardware combo? i mean i still love the mac... but you know running 2 setups is pretty expensive if you want everything up to date...

[@shitmandood]

I always build my PC from parts. I wouldn't trust to buy a system built from a vendor because they put in proprietary components. If your hdd was at 100% and running slow, but working, maybe you had a virus or malware on the system. What you do is restore from backup or reinstall from scratch, but if you reinstalled the OS from scratch without hooking into the network & you still had 100% CPU, then maybe the drive was bad. And be sure to avoid pirated OS software. You should always pay for your OS, office, & antivirus/malware tools at least. You want the system to run perfectly before you install your music software. In fact, I'd avoid pirated software & sites altogether because I wouldn't want it compromised.

[@soundsfromYYBY]

PC IS EVERYTHING MAN BOOOO TO MAC ITS A HYPE LOL

[@nichttuntun3364]

Ohje. What a lame kind of expressing oneself as a musician. Come on. Take your instrument and play the hell out of it and when you find something interesting record the midi into your DAW and you have a good starting point. What you show here is telling people how to produce generic boredom. You have to get music theory and harmonic theory into your finger and you have to learn to play different Rythms too to make interesting electronic music. No program can do that for you.

[@PolarityMusic]

everyone starts somewhere

[@nichttuntun3364]

@@PolarityMusic Absolutely. But beginners will use this easy way and possibly never progress as far they really want to know more and learn for themselves. They will think wow look what I can do and how good it sounds and their friends will be impressed. They probably will not understand why it sounds boring and why a human touch, atonality, out of the scale progressions, grit and dirt, especially in electronic music, is so important. Have joy and be sound

[@Quantumspace23]

@@nichttuntun3364 At 56 years old I'm still a beginner and I'd rather build up my skills gradually and have fun while doing it rather than have to master pedantic details that you extoll. Everybody starts creating generic boredom when they are beginners but we don't tell teachers to skip past basic language skills and instead have the child start with writing epic tales such as Beowolf nor has any 3-year-old made a masterpiece of art that has inspired generations. I feel like your admonition is unnecessarily harsh.

[@nichttuntun3364]

@@Quantumspace23 Yes. I do agree with you totally and I doubt that I had a good entry into that matter. In no way I wanted to discourage you or anyone else. I like to add that maybe I expected at least a bit more - even for beginners - from a KZbin teacher. Have joy and be sound

[@ianbrown3304]

Hey I like generic. Learn the basics then get drunk n go mad. Chill out man. It's meant to be fun. Happy days.