Access Virus TI Arpeggiator Magic With Gearwire's Bill Holland: Part II
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In part two of this Access Virus TI tutorial, Bill Holland works some more with the Virus' arpeggiator. Bill drops the arpeggiator down to the bass clef and then expands on the types of patterns you can use with the TI's arpeggiator.
If you missed the first part of this arpeggiator trilogy, you can check it out here. Stay tuned to Gearwire for the final part of the Access Virus TI Arpeggiator Trilogy.
BILL HOLLAND: Now notice that's just me hitting A-flat. Now, in your bright mind, you would assume that that would mean that it would automatically for you. Not the case. It looks like all we have here is a classic up and down oscillating synthesizer. So if I take -- if I transpose this -- let's go over to the transpose key. If I transpose this down an octave or two, you will see what that will allow you to do with the bassline.
[BILL PLAYS BASSLINE]
I'm going to take that back up to the middle. Okay, so here we are again. Now let's look at what happens when we change up patterns. Let's say that this has 64 different arpeggiator patterns in it, so let's say we go to like 46, take the octave up to three. What's the difference.
[BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIO]
Change the pattern again.
[BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIO]
So we have a lot of different choices for the types of patterns we're using.
[BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIO]
We can actually take that up or down. Let's find something a little more energetic. Let's go back to the beginning.
[BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIOS]
Okay, let's take the mode to up and down again.
[BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIO]
Okay. And also you get what the options are for the arpeggiator. So, if you hit the parameters button, this allows you to scroll back and forth between -- see there's 1/3; we're going to go up to 2/3. But I wanted to take us to 2 -- 3/3. I'm not sure why it did that.Now, one thing you can change up is the resolution of how the notes play back. I got in trouble for this on an earlier tutorial and the reason is because I mixed up resonance with resolution. Resolution is not even close to that. It's how the notes are played. Here I'll show you; it's the rate.
[BILL MANIPULATES ARPEGGIATOR]
I mean 1/16 is usually a pretty good rate, and 1/32 could be good too
[BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIATOR AT 1/32], but I think for our purposes 1/16 is still good.
Note length: how long it holds the note. Right now, we're at -45. Let's try extending that.
[BILL PLAYS ARPEGGIATOR]
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