EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHORD TRACK
AND HARMONIC EDITING
The chord track for Studio One 4 clearly surpasses the idea of a simplified chord track to be used just for note data. In fact, Studio One’s Chord Track has the ability to combine with instrument tracks and also draft tracks for audio.
For arrangement and transpositioning purposes, it gives the user the
Some Features of Chord Track
Chord Track has a lot of superb features which gives it a top feature of Studio One 4. With Chord Track, music producers and songwriters get to enjoy some features such as:
- Fast modulation for different keys
- Freedom to Play with variations of chord progression
- Free yourself from barriers to creativity by experimenting
- Gain more freedom to try out things like harmonies and chord progressions through Harmonic Editing.
WHAT EXACTLY DOES CHORD TRACK DO?
Chord Track gives producers the ability to experiment with not just instrument tracks but also with audio tracks and gives them the ability to harmonize in real time and a lot more. Chord Track is referred to as a killer addition in Presonus Studio One 4.
Depending on how the tracks are individually set, the Chord Track has what it takes to make alterations to audio events and parts of an instrument in the entire song. This will ensure
The Chord Selector
The innovative Chord Selector offers you a very easy platform to experiment with different chord structures.
It also gives you the ability to switch between chords on the go using a MIDI keyboard and switch chords in real-time. Chord data can also be transferred to and auto-detected by the Chord track. You can also send out chord data to other tracks intuitively and directly from the Chord Track.
Harmonic Editing and Chord Track
In a bid to ensure that the process of songwriting and creating good music is streamlined and simplified, Studio One introduced Harmonic Editing. One extremely mind-blowing aspect of Harmonic Editing is the fact that it offers you the possibility of experimenting with harmonies, trying out and playing with transpositions and also checking out chord progressions.
It comes equipped with a Chord Tracker which can work with virtually every type of tracks (audio/instrument) for quick and efficient transposition and arrangement in various dimensions.
The ability to combine harmonic editing with scratch pads combined with Arranger Track ensures that the movement of whole song sections is more flexible than ever. Studio One 4 is arguably the most versatile DAW when it comes to experimenting with new ideas for a song.
PreSonus indicated that the audio capabilities of the Chord Track would best be used for turning a song into a Prototype due to the fact that chord transformations, when extreme, can also produce similar artifacts that are expected from pitch shifting. The Chord Track can also be used for amazing sound designs such as tuning reverb loops or maybe tuning drum loops too. This happens to be a unique and superb effect because it’s almost like vocoding.
Non-Destructive vs Destructive and its relation to Chord Track
In working with a Digital Audio Workstation, the words “destructive” and “Non-destructive” are normally used. Destructive simply refers to a situation where an action’s outcome is reflected in a file while non-destructive means the exact opposite.
PreSonus stated that the Chord Track is basically designed to be utilized in the songwriting and music production processes. They, therefore, had the entire process designed in a non-destructive manner by giving you the ability to activate or deactivate the “follow” mode when necessary.
