Generate bass, drums and keys from your chords
Autogenerate adds a bass line, keys and drums to your song. It uses the chords and the beat that chord detection found in your take, plays them with a sound and a pattern you choose, and puts each part on its own layer, which you can mute, delete or regenerate. Autogenerate is part of Musaic Pro, together with chord detection.
Musaic - Recording Studio is free for iPhone and iPad. Where a step needs Musaic Pro, the guide says so.
You need: Musaic Pro, and a take with detected chords (see chord detection). Drums only need the beat.
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Open Autogenerate
Tap Add layer and choose Autogenerate ("Bass, drums and keys from the take's chords"). Without chords, it offers Detect chords + beat first.
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Pick a part
Choose Bass, Keys or Drums.
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Choose the sound
Any sound of that family: for example Fingered Bass, Acoustic Grand or the Acoustic Kit.
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Choose the pattern
Bass and keys: Re-strike every bar or Hold until the chord changes. Drums: from Kick on the one to Backbeat + hats.
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Keep or redo
The part lands on its own layer. Open the same part again to change the sound or the pattern; it replaces the layer instead of adding another.
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Kick on the one Pro
One kick at the start of every bar.
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Pickup and Backbeat Pro
A pickup into the bar, or the snare on two and four.
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One and three, Kick on every beat Pro
Kicks on one and three, or on every beat.
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Four on the floor, Backbeat + hats Pro
The dance pattern, and the backbeat with hi-hats.
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Can I edit the notes?
The generated part is a layer like any other: mute it, delete it, give it effects, or generate it again with another sound or pattern.
Musaic - Recording Studio is free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, with weekly challenges and Ideas. Musaic Pro adds lyrics, animations, chord detection and Audio Lab, and removes the watermark.
- Detect the chords of your song and show them in the videoGuide
- Play instruments on your iPhone, on screen or with a MIDI keyboardGuide
Written for Musaic 1.4.0.