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Massive Question

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:17 pm
by Slayde
I notice in almost all the Massive tutorials I watch that whenever a setting is adjusted the resulting sound plays in correspondence with the adjustment. Was wondering if anyone knows how to do this so I don't have to keep going back and forth from the piano roll to test the sound?

Re: Massive Question

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:31 pm
by Hertz
Simple, open massive at the top left there is a little box that looks like a gear, click that.Go to settings tab, visual box and check the "don't allow keyboard focus" should be able you play notes constantly and tweak as needed.

Re: Massive Question

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:43 pm
by Slayde
Just realized you can play the piano roll on your keyboard lol. Next quetion would be is there any way to assign specific chords to the keys?

Edit: Thanks btw, that helped

Re: Massive Question

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 9:02 pm
by Hertz
Really? lol kinda funny, I'm not sure about assigning specific chords to keys, sorry

Re: Massive Question

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 6:59 am
by Slayde
No worries, I'll figure it out eventually.

Re: Massive Question

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 7:18 am
by nowaysj
Yeah you sure can but you'd be a fracking geek doing so. :) There are vst's for this. They accept key presses, and they output midi info in chords to be sent to other synths. So you could set up like 6 chords and just rip through your verses and chorus just pressing one button at a time.

Also not to be over looked, just sample those chords, and put them in a sampler, now you have a second technique at one note triggering chords.

Re: Massive Question

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 9:41 am
by KoenDercksen
What you could of course do as well is tune your oscillators, ie. if you want to have a saw pad play a minor chord on the key you press, tune one oscillator to the root (0, or 12 or -12 or whatever), one to minor third (3, or 15 or -9 or you know) and one to the fifth (not really needed but it fills the chord out, 7 or 19 or -5 etc.).

Re: Massive Question

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:24 pm
by nowaysj
And then you can modulate the pitch of each oscillator to get different chords... like I said, you could really nerd out, but why? :)

Re: Massive Question

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:45 pm
by Slayde
Haha sounds good guys. I'll mess around with that till I get teh sound I'm looking for. Thanks again.