#LIQUID MUSIC VS LIQUID NOTES SOFTWARE#

I spoke a lot about work-flow with Boogeyman team, and they are aware of the complexity of the whole process. Setting it up for the first time is a bit tricky, but as soon as you’re in the saddle everything becomes easier. But use it carefully and you will be more than happy with the results. Of course it is not an almighty program, so if you push those sliders too far from the origin, the results can be closer to Stockhausen than to Bach after all. Open your sequencer with that MIDI and start tweaking Liquid Notes. After you have that MIDI file, you just need to open Liquid Notes, importing that MIDI, selecting the rank of every MIDI track, letting the program know if that track contains melody or chords.

#LIQUID MUSIC VS LIQUID NOTES SOFTWARE#

The truth is that you can also use any other MIDI file, from any other author, changing it with the software and making it fairly unrecognizable.

You can start with some simple arrangement, a few bars filled with chords, bass and lead line, and export that as a MIDI file.

The software is fairly simple (and they promise that it will be even simpler in the future). Their chief developer Stefan also offered me his mobile number while we tried to fix a problem with the virtual MIDI cable. (I obtained it from ) They helped me to sort some issues even when they thought that I was using the demo version of their product. We talked a lot even before they figured out that I had gotten their software for reviewing purpose. And talking about boogeyman, the aforementioned boogeyman team are one of the most supportive groups of people I have encountered in the music industry. You feed the software with some simple MIDI arrangement, it will help you to develop that idea much further by changing harmonies, adding new ones without screwing the melody and making Stockhausen out of Bach. Liquid Notes is a “production tool that assists you with chords, scales, and harmonic movement with ease and efficiency.” That is a description from the Liquid Notes home page, and they are right. They make a program that has some sort of artificial intelligence and – it works. OK, not really, but yes, they make it happen. Run working hero, run… Stefan, Stefan, Roland, Karl and Gerrit will eat you alive! Liquid Notes is a boogeyman that comes out of the computer to steal our brains, taking control of our lives. The rest of the world makes a decent living with their hands, while I’m faking to be a musician stealing jobs from real musicians.Īnd know what? Suddenly all those nightmares of the honest working heroes become a reality. Whenever I tell people that I’m not a live musician, most of them imagine that I’m sitting in front of my computer, whispering to the monitor what to do, while my computer makes music instead of me. In the past, I have done mostly electro IDM music. Would Beethoven been a better composer if he had access to Liquid Notes? Probably not … but mere mortals like you and I, that may be another story altogether.

Liquid music vs liquid notes