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 Tino
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If I input a signal into the audio input from my electric guitar and play a rhythm ... is there any way that modx6 builds a rhythmic pattern with drums or with an arpeggio, based on the guitar rhythm that I'm playing?

 
Posted : 08/07/2019 12:28 am
Bad Mister
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At times it may seem like the MONTAGE/MODX can actually play along with you like it’s a living, breathing human being... but reality is, although the system can take an audio input from a device like an electric rhythm guitar, it does not “build” anything... it can “respond” to that input. You build what it does...

You can use any audio input to create an Amplitude pulse... the energy of that audio’s Amplitude (loudness) can be used to modify the Synthesis Engine. You can also use that energy to establish MIDI clock. But everything the MONTAGE/MODX contribute to your music, is based on what you Assign it to do. Technically, it doesn’t “build” anything... you do! You do by the routing you setup.

Say you record/playback a synth pad sound that you use to outline the chord progressions— just simple whole notes.
You could use the guitar’s Rhythm to ‘animate’ the synth pad sound... you could make it ‘duck’ down in volume each time you played a chord on the guitar. Or you could have the pad sound’s filter open or close with each rhythmic pulse. You could have the pad sound only audible when the rhythm pattern of the guitar strums are active. You could apply Effects that occur according to rhythm you play.

You can play along with a drum Arpeggio, you can have the guitar input interact with the Drum Kit... what will that sound like? You won’t know until you try it... these are Synthesizers... they let you “build” the results.

There are tons of things *you* can build, but make no mistake, it is *you* programming what is going to happen when the guitar signal arrives in the Motion Control Synthesis Engine (what we call the MONTAGE/MODX technology). Thanks for the question...

 
Posted : 08/07/2019 1:06 pm
 Tino
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I wondered if the modx6 could give me to choose some drum pattern based on the rhythm and timing of a chord progression that I was playing with the guitar. By your answer I see that no. Thank you very much for your attention and for your time.

I apologize for duplicating the post.

 
Posted : 08/07/2019 5:00 pm
Bad Mister
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The question and your post above are not clear to me... just how would something like that work? Wouldn’t the MONTAGE/MODX have to have a brain and be able to play itself? You want a keyboard to “listen, then analyze, and make a decision about what to play”? Sorry, as advanced as the technology is, it cannot quite do that. It can use what you play as a modifier.

 
Posted : 08/07/2019 6:28 pm
 Tino
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Maybe I explain myself badly because of my bad English and because I did not want to name another commercial brand. When I play alone, at home, without a group, the signal from my guitar goes to a pedal that creates the rhythm of drums and the bass tone for what I'm playing, giving me a choice between various styles of jazz, rock blues, hip hop , etc ... and tempo variations. My question is whether modx6 can, from the song that I play with my guitar, adapt the drum kits or patterns it has, to the time and the key of what I am playing.
Modx6 as a synthesizer seems fantastic to me and its sounds are incredible, it would be everything I need in a single device.

I like classic sounds and innovators. Modx6 I love it.
I play the piano just a little, a yamaha clp 240, but only as complement, I would love to add the modx6 sounds to my compositions. I do not have much experience with sequencers either. That is why if Modx6 adapted its rhythmic patterns to my guitar in the same way that it is capable of doing it with the created performances, (am I wrong in that?) It would be an excellent material not only for the keyboardists, but for any guitarist or instrumentalist in general.
It is my opinion, although perhaps the problem is that I do not know in depth the meaning and objective of modx6

 
Posted : 08/07/2019 10:04 pm
 Tino
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Sorry, but I forgot to comment something important to me. If the Modx does not create that pattern, but there is some way to create a pattern indicating the notes, measures and tempo would also be sufficient. It would have rhythmic bases and the fabulous sounds of Modx6
I love it, as I said, but at the moment I do not want to spend money on two devices.

 
Posted : 08/07/2019 10:42 pm
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