arpeggiators and DAWs

Ever need to export an MIDI arpeggiator’s output?  Each piece of software does this in their own special way.  In Reason, right-click the RPG-8 device in order to print “Arpeggiator Notes to Track” which is very clear, fast and simple.  In Abelton Live, route the output of the arpeggiated MIDI track into a new MIDI track via a virtual MIDI bus, thus recording the processed MIDI information into the timeline.  In Logic this is also possible, but it requires routing the MIDI outs to the sequencer input in the Environment window and requires recording the information in real-time (see video below).  If you have many minutes or hours of arpeggiation to print, try a quick work-around and temporarily increase the session’s tempo to something extreme such as 1000bpm to speed up the internal MIDI recording.

Below is a quick video demonstrating Logic’s routing in Environment.  Sadly, I wish Pro Tools had a MIDI plugin for arpeggiation.

Hat Tip to Jeremy Viner for the Logic demo.

Also be sure to check out Hypercyclic, a AU, VST and standalone LFO MIDI arpeggiator with some additional functionality not commonly found within DAWs.

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“Dawn” was an interactive video game with a story line similar to the movie “Hero” but never made it to release.  I worked on the interactive music and sound desig.  The picture here is a working animatic draft at the time to get the idea.