Hi guys,
Music Man is just telling the way to copy or move notes or phrases of a style part to a different beat of that style part.
E.g a guitar strumming that was starting at beat 1(downbeat) now is moved to start at the beat 1 1/2(upbeat).
Same thing can be done with a midi pad musical phrase.
Why this is good and not re-write a new phrase at the point you want it?
Because probably you will mess up the chords and it will not sound correctly.
Hi Panos
You got it exactly right. Some phrases have a magic that can only be achieved by a combination of subtle elements in the midi performance:
The duration of notes
The timing (slight imperfections often create a great feel)
The velocity (can produce timbrel changes or trigger various articulations)
The Voicing (for chords)
The choice of notes
The melodic idea
The Voice preset that is used
The effects
Automation (of panning, volume, effects parameters etc)
The SFF parameters
I've found many amazing phrases that i would like to use in professional music productions. With the ability to adapt the start time of phrases, it gives me many more options for how phrases can be used.
Genos pulls together an amazing collections of production tools.
Great sounds
The ability to follow a harmonic progression.
The ability to sync to timing.
A great library of accompaniment patterns in Style parts, Multipads and Arpeggios.
By the using the technique of copying parts of style phrases in Step Edit > Multi Select, you can pick out great little snippets of patterns, riffs, guitar strumming etc within a single style part and then copy those "phrases" to any point in the time line. This will enable you to make many variations of a riff, melody, strum without having to try to recreate it from scratch which might be very difficult considering interplay of so many elements.
... and if you DO create your own styles, you can reuse your own phrases in many more ways by the ability to copy continuous snippets of you phrases to any beat or upbeat in the time line.
One of the most difficult aspects of music production is the micro editing of midi to make it sound great.
I have spend literally days working on phrases, manipulating all the elements mentioned above and eventually is ends up sounding great. Now with Genos, I can put that amount of work in, but now i have the ability to reuse my work in many ways. ... and copying snippets of phrases to different starting points extends the possibilities even more.