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the randomization functions are among
the most inspiring features on the squid
StumbleUpon happy accidents and get your
creative juices flowing by generating
patterns and melodies you might not have
come up with when using traditional MIDI
programming methods using the squid it's
possible to randomize the pitch gay
velocity MIDI CCS and mute States of
each step in this example randomly
generate some patterns for our track
first let's set the global randomization
settings press global and scroll to the
randomizer settings here you will see
trigger type this can be fully random or
Euclidean for more info on the Euclidean
randomizer check out the tutorial for
this tutorial we will use fully random
then we have the pitch type fully random
we'll ignore the tracks key and key
based we'll follow the key and scale
that you have set we'll set key based as
we want to randomize a base and top line
to a particular key next we can set the
minimum and maximum pitch range for
randomly generated notes you can also
set the minimum and maximum gate and
velocity values you can also set the
minimum and maximum for MIDI cc's too
let's set a key as we are using the key
based randomizer this will lock all
random notes to a scale in this case
we'll set traps 5 and 6 to the Dorian
scale and change the key signature of
each track to C to do this select the
track by pressing the track button and
tapping track 5
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then press shift and turn the scale knob
to select the key signature of C we'll
repeat the process for track 6
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we'll start by randomly generating some
triggers on hi-hat track 3 select the
track then press shift and active press
the trigger button to see your newly
created triggers
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we'll keep tapping shift and active
until we find a pattern we like to give
the hi-hats more of a human fill
randomly generate some velocity values
press the shift and velocity buttons
until you find a velocity pattern you
like next we'll randomly generate some
triggers for a baseline on track 5 which
is connected to the a s1 select the
track then press shift and active to
randomly generate some steps press the
trigger button to see your newly created
triggers keep tapping shift and active
until you find a pattern you like notice
that the pitch doesn't change
to randomly generate pitch values
according to the scale we set up earlier
press shift and the pitch buttons keep
tapping shift and pitch until you find
pitch values you like we can take things
a step further by randomly generating
some gate values on our base line this
will alter the duration of our notes
press the shift and gate buttons until
you find some gate values that work for
you now we'll repeat the process using
all the shift random modes on our
Prophet six track to create a top line
melody
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as you can hear randomisation commune
inspiring tool and you want to generate
new ideas it is possible to create whole
songs from scratch using this method
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