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Now let's take a look at MIDI effects.
So what I've done here is
I've taken this chord progression
and I've converted it to MIDI.
So I'm just going to solo these two so we can hear them together.
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There's the MIDI
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and there's the original chord progression.
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So I want do something fun and interesting with
this sequence that I've extracted from this audio file.
So here I am looking at the virtual instrument here,
and I'm going to open up Live's browser,
and this time I'm going to navigate to MIDI effects.
So they're crowding each other as is because they're in the exact same range,
it's the exact same pitches.
So to begin with,
I'm going to take this pitch device
and I'm going to double-click on it to insert it onto the track.
So first things first,
you might notice that it has inserted itself at the beginning of the track
as opposed to after the track.
So audio effects come after audio signals or after virtual instruments
because the output of a virtual instrument is audio.
MIDI effects come before virtual instruments
because we're taking this data,
this chord of the sequence which is coming into this track,
and then manipulating the MIDI data,
which is then sent to the virtual instruments to be played.
So MIDI effects come first,
then the virtual instrument,
and then the audio effects.
The other restriction here is that audio effects can
be inserted onto both MIDI and audio tracks,
but MIDI effects can only be inserted onto a MIDI tracks.
So this pitch device is going to take the incoming MIDI and pitch it.
I'm going to pitch it up.
Let's start with 12 semitones,
which is one octave,
and we'll see how that sounds.
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Turn this one down a little bit,
and I'm also going to just pitch it up another octave and see what happens.
So 12 plus 12 is 24.
So here I am, 24 semitones up.
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I like it a bit more.
It's shimmery.
It's far up top,
but it's still stepping on the toes of the chord progression.
So what I'm going to do is insert an arpeggiator.
So just double-click on it here and I'm arpeggiating this,
which means to take a chord and to play notes in a certain order.
So it no longer is a chord,
it's becoming an arpeggio that's played like its own sequence.
So let's just see what happened.
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That's already a lot better.
There's a lot of parameters on here that I can adjust.
I can adjust the rate of arpeggiation
or the subdivision of those notes.
The other place I recommend you check out first off is the style.
You can have them go in different orders.
I'm going to just choose Random,
I like randomized things,
and I'll just adjust this Rate knob as
the sequence is playing until I find something that I think is interesting.
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Okay. Cool.
Then I'm going to go over to session view here and add some reverb.
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So I've pitched the MIDI data,
I've arpeggiated the MIDI data,
and then I've sent it to this virtual instrument here as well.
So I could go in and I could create more edits if I
wanted to eliminate certain notes that I felt didn't fit so well
and just continue to mess with this.
There are other MIDI effects as well.
So just like I encourage you to be playful
and investigate what the options were with the audio effects,
you should also check out the MIDI effects category.
There are far less of them, so it should take you less time.
But they are equally as creative and fun to use inside of your sessions.
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