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  • Using VI Pro to create sketch with accompaniment and solo on one keyboard

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    Hi everyone,

    I don't know if anyone else may find this useful, but I found a way, using VI Pro to play both accompaniment and solo instrument at one time. The main reason I found this helpful, is that you can sketch in something, and have the left hand play the accompaniment, and the right hand do the solo at the same time, which means you can create a kind of sketch where you don't have to play one track at a time but all at once.


    The problem is that on one keyboard, you end up playing both instruments at once – in this case the oboe notes would end up playing with all the harp notes, and you would have to restrict your accompaniment notes from the harp, to the section on the keyboard below the bottom note of the oboe or whatever solo instrument you choose to use. With VI Pro, I could restrict the harp notes and the oboe into regions of the keyboard and I was able to tranpose the harp part of the keyboard down, so I got the pitch section of the harp where I would most likely want to use. After watching the video demo's about VI Pro, I wondered if I could do this, but the main problem for me was that the accompaniment notes on the harp would be restricted to the bass area of the harp in the left hand.


     So, I put in both instruments patches into the VI Pro, and worked out what my lowest note on the Oboe would be for my sketch, and then set the upper note of the Harp to being just under that, and then, to solve the problem of my being restricted to the bass note areas of the harp, I transposed the Harp down an octave,  so that my left hand was playing the notes in the Treble area of the harp one octave lower, which means my accompaniment notes are not restricted to just to the bass notes of the Harp. So, that transposition feature of VI Pro solved this problem.

    If you have VI Pro and want to try this out, the vi pro preset for the Song Without Words in B minor for Oboe and Harp is here:

    http://www.box.net/shared/876ep079oy

    the VI Pro preset for the Arioso for Oboe and Harp in D minor is here:

    http://www.box.net/shared/d8mj5cheer

    I've done some examples of music that uses this preset and themes that I've used for other music.

    Here's the playback of the Arioso in D minor using vi Pro to get accompaniment and solo on one midi keyboard and one midi track for this music in Cubase. It uses a VSL Oboe patch and a Harp patch:

    http://soundcloud.com/stevemartinalmonds/arioso-for-oboe-and-harp-in-d

    In the next example, I took the midi track from this, and separated it into two different parts, and played other parts over it to get this result which is an audio mix of the different parts:


    http://soundcloud.com/stevemartinalmonds/arioso-oboe-orchstrl-accomp-in

    Here is the recorded playback of the music from another track using VI Pro with the French Oboe legato patch, and the Harp Patch, again on one keyboard and one midi track in Cubase.

    http://soundcloud.com/stevemartinalmonds/song-without-words-in-b-minor

    I then did the same as before, separated the one midi track into two parts, and played other parts over it to get the following eventual audio mix:


    http://soundcloud.com/stevemartinalmonds/song-without-words-in-b


    I also did a transcription of the Arioso in D minor from Cubase into Sibelius 6 and this is a pdf of the Sibelius score.

    http://www.box.net/shared/zyshyfcxbj

    I hope someone else may find this aspect of VI Pro handy for doing some composition sketching.


    Best,

    Steve.